Hermione Granger's birthday

iamvine eleanor at dreamvine.org.uk
Wed Aug 4 15:55:56 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 108822

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 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.

This got me excited for a minute - Hermione's birthday is near the end
of Virgo - but according to this page, the astrological year begins
with Aries, making Virgo the sixth month.  Ah well.

http://www.kelsung.com/calendar/zodiac.htm

Eleanor





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