Christmas

Christmas is a Christian holiday whose origin is from a Pagan celebration which is celebrated on the 25th of December. Students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry go on a few weeks' holidays for the Christmas season.

Hogwarts Celebrations
For Christmas at Hogwarts, the Great Hall is decorated with twelve towering Christmas trees, festoons of holly, mistletoe, and other Christmas oriented accents. In addition this, the school has been known to be decorated with real live fairies which fly around the trees, everlasting icicles which are applied to the banisters of the Grand Staircase, and warm, dry snow which falls from the Enchanted Ceiling of the Great Hall.

Christmas Holidays
The students can choose to stay at Hogwarts Castle or return home for the holidays, which begin shortly before December 24 and end sometime after New Year's Day. A Professor generally goes among the students making a list of those who want to stay for the winter holidays. A notable occasion upon which many students stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas was in 1994, when Hogwarts was hosting the Triwizard Tournament and the Yule Ball held on Christmas Day.