Hermione Granger's birthday

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No: HPFGUIDX 108782

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "romulusmmcdougal"
<romulus at h...> wrote:
> Dear List,
> I am new to this wonderful group, having just come across it in my 
> travels!  Needless to say, I am happy to be here.
> 
> Regarding Hermione Granger's birthday -- September 19th.
> 
> Did you know that September is "the seventh month"?
> 
> Sincerely,
> RM McDougal
> The Mystery of Hermione Granger
> www.hermionegranger.us

Hi Romulus,

I read your website (particularly
http://www.hermionegranger.us/pages/hermepower.htm) and while not all
of it convinces me (I don't think JKR is as reliable with days of the
week as you think she is) I found the part about Trelawney very
interesting.

Summary for those who don't want to read the rather long page: it's a
theory that Hermione was born "as the seventh month dies" and is the
true subject of the prophecy.  It relies on the dating of the night
Dumbledore interviewed Trelawney at the Hog's Head - we've been
assuming that this happened shortly before Harry was born, but
Trelawney tells Umbridge earlyish in OotP that she's been working at
Hogwarts for "nearly sixteen years", leading to the theory that she
was engaged the year before Harry's birth, but after the beginning of
the school year - i.e. just before Hermione was born.

A couple of questions:

Why bring lunar months into it?  If September is "the seventh month"
and Hermione was born "as the seventh month dies", why didn't JKR make
her birthday later in the month than the 19th and make the explanation
much simpler?

I don't see how Hermione's dentist parents could have defied Voldemort
three times, and I think treating "those she was born to" as meaning
"Muggles as a whole" is splitting hairs.  But maybe she's adopted! 
Could she by any chance be Lupin's secret love child?

Happily theorising,

Eleanor.