Hermione Granger's birthday

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108954

RMM
"And the time frame Professor Trelawney makes these statements? Early 
to mid-October.

Her words: "of sixteen years of devoted service... it has passed, 
apparently, unnoticed..." imply that her sixteenth anniversary as a 
teacher came and went without anyone apparently noticing.

Thus, the 16th anniversary occurred sometime between the 1st week of 
September 1979 and early October 1979."


DuffyPoo:

Or, in her hysterical state, she said 'sixteen years' instead of the 'nearly sixteen' from when she was answering questions from Umbridge.  I often say I've been married 20 years, when it is not yet 20 years.  Just a generalization.  DD states, when talking to HP later, that it was a 'cold, wet night sixteen years ago', that is in June after the mess at the MoM.  Living in Canada, I know when it is cold and wet here, but I don't know when it would be most likely to be cold and wet in Northern Scotland.  (Jump in here Geoff.)  However, we do have reference to HP being wet and frozen ("whithin five minutes Harry was soaked to his skin and frozen hardly able to see his team-mates, let alone the tiny Snitch.) during the first Quidditch match of the year against Hufflepuff  in PoA, the game would have been sometime in November (The Lexicon says the first Saturday of November I thought it was probably the 2nd Saturday).  Umbridge wasn't made High Inquisitor until Educational Decree No. 23 is passed. The job begins on the Monday of the 2nd week of school.  

The Lexicon shows Sep 11 (Wed on their calendar) as the date of the Divination class inspection and Oct 5 as the day Trelawney announces she is on probation.  However, I'm not certain this is correct.  We know that Harry and Ron were doing their week's worth of homework on Sunday, after practicing Quidditch on Saturday.  Ron receives an owl from Percy and Percy said there would be a special announcment in the "Daily Prophet" tomorrow.  The Trio reads of the High Inquisitor post in the Daily Prophet on Monday morning. After they read the paper they went to History of Magic, Potions, had lunch then went to Divination, followed by DADA...their normal Monday schedule that year.  We know it is their Monday schedule, as first class of the year has always been a Monday and "Look at today!" groaned Ron. "History of Magic, Double Potions, Divination and double Defence Against the Dark Arts....Binns, Snape, Trelawney and that Umbridge woman all in one day! I wish Fred and George'd hurry up and get those Skiving Snackboxes sorted..."  According to the lexicon Wed is Divination class first thing n the morning.

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