significant dates (was characters' star signs)

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 79176

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ffimiles" <ffionmiles at h...> 
wrote:
> 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.


The festival of Lughnasadh is also known as Lammas, or "Loaf-Mass." 
It is a celebration of the First Harvest. It is also a cross-quarter 
day: half-way between the summer soltice and the autumnal equinox.  

The closest holiday to Hermione's birthday in September is the 
equinox.  One of the ancient names for this holiday was Mabon (the 
Second Harvest).  This name is, I believe, Welsh.  One of my 
reference books says that this festival is also known as 
the "Witches' Thanksgiving" and is one of the oldest harvest 
celebrations in Europe.

October 31st, another cross-quarter day, is the Third (and final) 
Harvest.

Katrina
(whose birthday is also near Lammas)