significant dates (was characters' star signs)

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No: HPFGUIDX 79172

> 
> She may have meant it. JK has used Holidays as significant days
> throughout the books. Lots of things happen for her on Halloween, 
The
> Potters' death, the death of Nearly Headless Nick, the "troll in the
> dungeon", the attacking of the Fat Lady by Sirius Black...and there 
is
> something else I think, I'm currently trying to fill in some more
> thoughts on the "Lily/Runes" post/theory that I posted a week or so
> ago, but am not ready to do so yet, I do think there is something 
more
> to Halloween with that. But in "fact finding" have discovered too,
> that Harry's (and thus JK's) birthday is around the start of the
> Festival of Lughnasa, (Festival of the Harvest for the pagan god 
Lugh)

I agree, there is something in Hallowe'en - more than it just being 
an easily-identifiable day for her to say 'something happened on this 
day', rather than using dates, or saying 'mid October'.  It's 
obviously an important date in the witch/wizard world, though so far 
it's just been described as a day for fun/pumpkins etc - but d 
definately not a coincidance that it's the day on which Harry 
received his scar, and when he was (possibly) conceived.  

Other dates - Hermione's birthday?  Other than being the same as my 
sister's...I can't think of anything happening in mid-September.