Hermione Granger's birthday

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 108817

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
 
> >>Inge:
> "In the very old days the year calender was different and September 
> was in fact the 7th month. The last 4 months of the year have all 
> been named after a number as in
> Sept = 7
> Oct  = 8
> Nov  = 9
> Dec  =10"<<

Geoff:
If I might be allowed to be pedantic (cries of "What again!"), the 
numbers come from the Latin words for seven to ten - septem, octo, 
novem, decem.
 
The calendar was different because it began in March - was this the 
Julian calendar? - as the corresponding Latin months are September, 
October, Novembris and December. IIRC,if you look at horoscopes, they 
ahve a similar structure, beginning somewhere about March.