Later on, the parade would be used more often for Mardi Gras celebrations, where revelers would don costumes and process down the roads in celebrations just prior to Lent.
There's two of these in the neighborhood, and then they come over, they fill up their buckets and then they carry them all the way over to their house.
Harry had seen them at it during his evening walks around Little Whinging; he had spent most of the holidays wandering the streets, scavenging newspapers from bins along the way.
Everything here from the crosses to the teddy bears to the flowers were all gathered up from other parts of Boylston Street that were close along the way.