Hermione Granger's birthday

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 108875

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet"
<cldrolet at s...> 
> wrote:
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> 
> >>DuffyPoo:
> Interesting.  Is this pointing, RM McDougal, to the possiblity that 
> Hermione may fulfill the prophecy? 

Yes, this is pointing to that very thing.


> The problem comes in with the 
> Prophecy: 'and the Dark Lord will mark *him* as his equal, but *he* 
> will have powers the Dark Lord knows not.'  So, unless the prophecy 
> is even less specific that we have already been led to believe, can 
> this part be fulfilled by a girl?<<

Well, in the old days, the pronoun "he" was employed to refer to "a 
person" and not necessarily a "man".
Only recently has the word "they" been used to refer to a he or a she.

> 
> 
> Inge again:
> I do not for a second believe that Hermione is the one to fulfill 
the 
> prophecy. For several reasons:
> 
> 1) September being the 7th month was too long ago to have any 
meaning 
> anymore. And even *if*.... Hermione is born on the 19th which is
not 
> at the end of the month.

Well, "month" comes from the old English word "moonth" which means 
"lunar cycle".  In 1979, counting March 1st and the first day of the 
year, the 7th lunar cycle "died" on September 20th.

> 
> 2) The prophecy doesn't refer directly to a *she*.

See above.

> 
> 3) There is no canon at all to support Hermiones parents to have 
been 
> in a fight with Voldemort ever - nor that they would have defied
him 
> even once.

"born to those" may mean Hermione's parents, it may mean Hermione's 
family lineage, it may mean Hermione's social status, it may mean 
Muggles in general.
We know, for instance, that Voldemort's father "defied" him by 
rejecting he and his mother.
We also know that two other Muggles defied him -- his grandparents.

He killed three Muggles in his own family.  I can see him killing his 
father for his rejection, but why the grandparents, unless the 
grandparents "defied" (or rejected) him as well?

RMM