Snape's birthday...will she or won't she?

[Annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Snape's Witch 
> > 
> > Even more interesting is why she added Draco just before HBP was 
> > published.
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> Did she? I thought, but someone would need to confirm it, that over 
the 
> course of one year, JKR wished Happy Birthday to selected 
characters. 
> When the next year came around, the same set were there---no new 
names 
> and no missing ones.
> 
> She's wished both Draco and Snape happy birthday after HBP came 
out. 
> This was Snape's second greeting after HBP.
>

I know just where to look--

There's a great section of the Lexicon with everything that is or 
ever was on JKR's site (*waves to Belinda* Hi, dear!!!):

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com.html

This includes info for all the past door openings, too.

Anyway, the birthdays:
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com-birthdays.html

Potioncat is right, they've just repeated the same every year since 
they started (with Neville in July '04).  However, Draco's birthday 
*did* first appear just before HBP was published, because it happened 
to be just short of a year since she began putting the birthdays up 
at all.

Annemehr
link maven today, apparently