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Celebrating New Year's around the World!, Share your traditions here
Gilderoy Lockhar...
post Dec 31 2008, 05:46 PM
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Happy New Year to all of my Fans!

One of my favorite things about traveling the world while writing my books was learning about new cultures and celebrating the holidays in different places. (Or at least that's what they tell me).

I have some pictures that show me posing in the middle of a crowd in Times Square on New Year's Eve. Apparently, the big thing to do if you live near New York City is to go to Times Square and see the crystal ball drop. But I have a note here in this old journal, reminding me never do it again! Apparently too many people who had too much to drink in too tight of a space wrinkled my periwinkle robes. Seems like it would have been fun though, to count backwards from ten with a million other enthusiastic folks.

Did I tell you? I can count backwards from ten now!


Please pick a question or two and share your thoughts with Lockhart. He hasn't had any visitors in a while...

How do you celebrate in your city or small town?

Does anyone have the inside scoop on how Seamus Finnegan might celebrate in Ireland, or Cho Chang in Scotland? Anyone from Bulgaria here who could guess what Victor Krum is doing on the big night? Fleur in France?

Does anyone have any idea how Hagrid would celebrate New Year's? ohmy.gif

Why do you think we don't see Harry and friends celebrating at Hogwarts?

Hit reply and let us know!
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I am usually gone on New Year's Eve on vacation somewhere, so we usually just watch the ball drop, or sometimes we'll be outside like this year and last watching fireworks if where ever we are has them.

I have some videos of this year's New Years celebration in the Atlantis hotel harbor, Paradise Island (Bahamas):
Video 1
Video 2
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Video 4


(honking heard in the videos are from the yachts that the rich people in the harbor owned and they were honking tongue.gif)

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- Gilderoy Lockhart   Celebrating New Year's around the World!   Dec 31 2008, 05:46 PM
- - wendybird3   Hello Gilderoy, I thought I would visit with you f...   Jan 3 2009, 08:08 AM
- - 10thweasley   Well my family always watches the ball drop in Tim...   Jan 3 2009, 11:33 AM
- - The-T-Dane   Well, Locky, here we have some mixed tradition, bu...   Jan 3 2009, 01:12 PM
- - JaneMarple9   I don't think New Year is important in the wi...   Jan 3 2009, 01:52 PM
- - hogwartsrealty   Harry New Year to you all! I'm an older wi...   Jan 3 2009, 03:12 PM
- - Luna_Lovegood   Oh, who's Jo? Is she a friend of yours?   Jan 3 2009, 03:15 PM
- - LillianJames   hogwartsrealty, Love your idea of sleeping under t...   Jan 3 2009, 03:16 PM
- - the1minority   I celebrated New Year in the Netherlands this year...   Jan 3 2009, 05:03 PM
- - MesserMoony   I live in SmallTown, TheMiddleOfNowhere we like to...   Jan 3 2009, 05:59 PM
- - Frommfilm   Does anyone have the inside scoop on how Seamus Fi...   Jan 3 2009, 08:34 PM
- - Hannah Longbottom   Well, one of our new years traditions is actually ...   Jan 3 2009, 08:37 PM
|- - Ravenklaw   QUOTE(Hannah Longbottom @ Jan 3 2009, 08...   Jan 4 2009, 12:19 PM
- - witch@heart   Every year with my family we get Chinese food and ...   Jan 3 2009, 10:11 PM
- - Winky   *hic* I is still recovering from my New Years in t...   Jan 4 2009, 01:27 PM
|- - Amontillada   QUOTE(Winky @ Jan 4 2009, 01:27 PM) *hic*...   Jan 4 2009, 01:57 PM

 

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