The Importance of Hallowe'en

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 36309

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidit at n... wrote:
> > It's actually 10 months to the day, and pregnancy really is a 40 
week (ie 10 
> month) process. If harry was born 2 weeks late, he would've been 
conceived on 
> halloween.
> > 
> > Just this one, which is too *perfect* for real
> > life, but might work in a story: Harry's birthday
> > is July 31, which happens to be 9 calendar months
> > after Halloween.
> 
> Er, October 31 to July 31 is indeed 9 months.  The way 
obstetricians figure that 
> 40-week pregnancy is from last menstrual period (LMP), go back 3 
months and 
> add a week (39 weeks being exactly 9 months).  So if Harry was 
conceived on 
> Halloween his due date would have been figured out thus: Starting 
from October 
> 17 (that's assuming Lily was, um, regular), back 3 months is July 
17, add a week 
> is July 24. So he'd have had to be just one week late, even more 
plausible.

One week... hmm... it happens. But it could have been something else. 
Say - James and Lily *married* on October 31st, spent at least a week 
if not a moon doing nothing but - and Harry was born in due time. 
Next October 31st... Fidelius Charm is cast, Wanting to protect a 3-
month-old baby; Next - James and Lily die...

Did Harry's eyes turn green on Halloween? Did he say his first word 
on Halloween? Take his first step on Halloween?

11 - Nice number: It's a prime - and a double(like 22,33 etc.) The 
first year when you can't show your age by fingers; the abstract 
number...