Hermione's birthday

[Joanne0012 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 29783

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
> Even with this that makes 
> Hermione's letter come 7 days before her birthday, meaning it would 
> arrive either on the 3rd or 4th of September, but still too late for 
> her to go to Hogwarts with Harry and Ron! 

Since Rowling has said that Hermione's birthday is September 19 (not the 
11th), it would definitely be impossible for her to have gotten a letter around 
her birthday, and done all that background reading, unless it was nearly a year 
before she entered.