Astrology & Birth Dates

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 12602

Hi --

naama_gat at hotmail.com wrote:

> Reading the astrology posts, it occured to me that JKR probably
> doesn't believe at all in astrology (just an impression based on
> her interviews). And then I realized that of all the subjects taught
> in Hogwarts only Divination impresses us as dubious and even
> ridiculous.

I think she probably doesn't put much stock in astrology & does seem to
be ridiculing fortune-tellers, astrologists, etc. with her depiction of
Trelawney and the subject of Divination.

The other reason that she must not be an adherent of astrology is that
she never would have made Hermione a Sept 19th birthday if she did.
<g>  I enjoyed Elizabeth's posts of the charts of Harry & Hermione since
we know their birthdates (and are reasonably certain about birthyears).
Knowing birth times might make some difference but still .... it struck
me that the individual character portraits of both Harry and Hermione
were quite off from what we know about the characters.  Hermione's
birthday should be August 1st or July 30th -- her character is based so
heavily on JKR herself and JKR gave Harry her own birthday of July 31st.

I did enjoy the relationship astrology chart for H & H though --
intensity!!!  :--)

As for Ron -- I had pictured him a bit as a Taurus before (stubbornness,
combined with the fact that my first love was a red-headed Taurus boy).
Now, I think I might lean more toward Gemini.  It would explain why we
don't see Ron's birthday (well, other than GoF -- which ends after 6/24
inexplicably).  But, the first 3 books seem to end around June 12th or
so -- leaving over a week after term ends for Ron to have a Gemini
birthday.  He has a fair number of Gemini traits as well it seems to me.

Draco -- I could go with Scorpio (I'm a Scorpio myself), but I somehow
lean a bit Gemini with him too mainly because my husband (who I now
jokingly refer to as "Draco" (reformed Draco with none of canon Draco's
evil mean-spiritedness that is!) is a Gemini.

Penny



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