School cut-off date WAS:Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 109479

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Matt" <hpfanmatt at g...> wrote:
Matt:
<snipped> 
> It's hard to tell whether you are trying to say that the story
> (backstory?) would be better if Hermione had been born in 1979, or
> whether you are actually arguing that Rowling intended for Hermione 
to
> have been born that year.

RMM:
I am arguing that Hermione, being born in 1979, would hold a higher 
degree of "cleverness" than if she was born in 1980.


Matt:
> 
> P.S.  I had thought that Rowling's comment about Hermione's parents
> trying to be clever was in reference to the obscurity of the name, 
not
> to any particular significance:
> 
> "[I]t's a name from Shakespeare; it's in 'A Winter's Tale'....  [I]t
> just seems the sort of name that a pair of professional dentists who
> liked to prove how clever they were -– do you know what I mean
> -– gave their daughter a nice unusual name that no one can
> pronounce!  I mean, parents do that."

RMM:
I'm sorry, but are you saying that because the name is obscure, then 
it is clever of the parents just because it is obscure?
Is that what Jo is saying in her answer above?  I think not.
She states: "[I]t just seems the sort of name that a pair of 
professional dentists who liked to prove how clever they were..."

It is not because of the obscurity of the name, it is because of what 
the name represents to these two professional dentists that makes it 
clever.

And if Hermione Granger was born on September 19, 1979, then the 
cleverness of these dentists naming her "Hermione" would be VERY 
CLEVER indeed.  However, if Hermione Granger was born on September 
19, 1980, then it was only 25% as interesting, or clever, that they 
had done so.

On a side note:  If that is the exact quote from Jo above in regard 
to her answer, then all I have to say is -- did you see that quick 
change of subject in her answer??????  She was giving too much away 
and then realized it.  She ends with "gave their daughter a nice 
unusual name that no one can pronounce!  I mean, parents do that."
WOW!!!  She goes from dentists being clever to parents giving their 
kids unpronounceable names!!!

RMM
www.hermionegranger.us