Hermione Granger's birthday

Bex hubbarrk at rose-hulman.edu
Wed Aug 4 21:15:10 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 108872

Griffin782002 wrote: 
> Well...linguistically it is not wrong. September comes from the 
> latin Septem, which actually means Seven. So Hermione's birthday in 
> some way can be said that is on the seventh month. 

Ybby says:
This is true, and when I saw the original post to this thread, I 
realized the same thing. (The name September sprang from the Julian 
calendar, when September was the 7th month.) However, other posters 
and I don't think the prophecy refers to her because her parents are 
muggles (unless she was adopted, and we have absolutely no evidence 
of that anywhere), plus the prophecy refers to the One as "he," 
implying male. It may just be a generalization, like "mankind," but I 
don't think so.

~Yb






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