The Importance of Hallowe'en

[selah_1977]

No: HPFGUIDX 36252

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JKR has long said that October 31--All Hallows' Eve--is by and far 
her favorite holiday, and so far in the series it has been extremely 
significant.

On that date in 1981, Lily and James Potter perished, Voldemort was 
reduced to "mere shadow and vapor", and Harry received his scar.

On that date in 1991, the Trio--friendship of Harry, Ron, and 
Hermione--was established over the troll incident.

On that date in 1992, the Trio attended Nearly Headless Nick's 
Deathday Party--the only event in canon from which we can derive real-
time dating.

On that date in 1994, Harry became Triwizard champion and had his 
first falling-out with Ron.

(NOTE:  The PoA Halloween events don't seem to follow this pattern--
there was Harry's missed Hogsmeade visit, subsequent chat with Lupin, 
and Sirius slashing at the Fat Lady to enter Gryffindor Tower.  Still 
not uneventful by any means.)

So what? you may say.  

Well, the precedent has been set for interesting things to happen on 
Halloween in the books.  All of the Halloweens in canon have 
something to do with the Trio's friendship, too--in 1993 you had 
Harry being separated from Ron and Hermione involuntarily when he 
very much wanted to tag along for the first time.

My prediction?

If either Ron or Hermione does not survive canon, JKR will take them 
out on Halloween.  She's setting something up here... and it isn't 
pretty.

Am I out in left field here?  Are there any other date-parallels in 
canon?

</resumes lurking>

--Ebony AKA AngieJ