OOP - Query about the Prophecy

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 62173

Kathryn Cawte wrote:
>  Prophecies are notoriously difficult to understand and often tend to
> be self-fulfilling, but something just occured to me. While July is
> the seventh calender month, literally the seventh month is September 
> (September being derived from the latin for 7). I'd come up with a
> theory based on that but I can't think of any students born in
> September other than her. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> K

September is called like that because in Roman times the year started 
in March, the first months being named after Gods, the next after 
deified emperors (July and August) and the rest being called by number, 
having run out of names. As a sidenote, Caesar Augustus changed the 
number of days in August from 30 to 31 because his month *couldn't* 
have less days in it than Julio's month.

Historical lesson over, I don't think that Dumbledore has got the wrong 
month. Depending on what civilization you pick, the seventh month will 
be different, I imagine, so if you want to think that Trelawny was 
using Chinese calender, it'll be yet another month (or at least a 
different set of days, since chinese months, IIRC, finish around the 
20th of ours, but don't quote me on that).

IMO, Trelawney was using our calender to make the prediction. Just 
because the seventh month of the year was a different month 1000 years 
ago, or still is 1000 miles away, doesn't change the fact that, for 
Trelawney's mind, end of July is the end of month seven.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf