nine and three quarters

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 55319

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Meg Demeranville" 
<mdemeran at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "siriuskase" 
<siriuskase at e...> 
> <snip> like you say, and the fact that he is always away from his 
> friends on his birthday is so sad, underlying a major theme of the 
> book <snip>
> 
> As one of those people who have late July birthdays, can I ask that 
> you guys not refer to our birth month as sad...... Sure I didn't 
> have a birthday party until I was 17, but I always just accepted 
it.  I think Harry probably has too. He wouldn't have known any 
> different. It doesn't seem that Dudley's birthday is celebrated 
with  a huge party, rather it seems that the Dursleys do things as a 
> family. So Harry probably doesn't expect the type of birthday party 
> that other kids get.
> 
> --Meg (who likes her summer birthday, thank you very much)


Harry's birthday is the same as J. K. Rowling's.  So I doubt she sees 
it as sad.  Plus he *has* been getting presents these last few years.

Erin