Harry's B-day Re: Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 109430

Geoff said:
> Hagrid may be considered a bit of a buffoon by some folk but 
> Hallowe'en is a most important date in the Wizarding World calendar 
> certainly in Hogwarts. Do you really think that he would so daft as 
> to mix up a date of Hallowe'en with an everyday date like 27th 
> October?


RMM:
"Well for that year, yes I would say that there would be a huge mixup.
 
Consider the celebration going on that day!!  Voldemort was gone!  
Dumbledore's own words: "We've had precious little to celebrate these 
last eleven years."  Big celebrations happening 4 days before 
Halloween.  "


DuffyPoo:
The problem is, of course, that Hagrid was at the house even before "the Muggles started swarming around." He and Sirius were first on the spot of the incident.  Even before the Muggles.  Before anyone was alerted to what happened.

Our favourite weatherman, Jim McGuffin said, "I don't know about that, but it's not only the owls that have been acting oddly *today.* Viewers as far apart as Kent, Yorkshire, and Dundee have been phoning in to tell me that instead of the rain I promised yesterday, they've had a downpour of shooting stars!"  The shooting starts wouldn't have started until word got around, some time after the incident, but while it was still dark or no shooting stars would be seen (would they?)  
Hagrid knew it was Hallowe'en when he rescued HP, as Geoff pointed out, because it is a special day in the WW.   The shooting stars and celebrations didn't start until the next day, sometime past midnight on Monday, in the early hours of the "dull, grey Tuesday morning our story starts", sometime after Hagrid had rescued HP from the rubble.  Sometime after word got around that LV had killed James and Lily and HP had survived.

[Sorry, Geoff, I couldn't resist. ;-) ]


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