Harry's Birthday

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 31198

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "hulintay" <hulintay at h...> wrote:
  isn't it strange that
> Harry *knows* that he was born at 12 midnight? He hardly knows 
> anything about his parents! IMO, I think JK should have wrote these
> passages in such a way that his birthday would not be represented
> by a particular hour, but by the day itself.

I think she *did* write as if the whole day was the birthday, not as if Harry 
knew that he had been born at exactly midnight.  It seems to me that Harry 
considers the whole day of July 31 to be his birthday, and of course that day 
begins at midnight.  

This seems to be the most prevalent way of kids' regarding birthdays -- don't 
most kids get up on their birthday morning, checking to see whether they 
*feel* a year older? I suspect that very few kids know or care what exact 
time they were born, even those with constant access to their parents!