focus on Hermione

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 110123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" <navarro198 at h...
> wrote:
Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> Unfortunately, I found the arguments to be illogical.

RMM:
Well then, let me help you understand them. :-)

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> It is only natural to expect the next question to be about 
> Hermione's birthday – JKR just anticipated that and answered
> it.

RMM:
Only natural?  Really?  Maybe, maybe not.  You can't logically assume 
that.  You're guessing.
Fact is though, Jo did volunteer the birthday of Hermione Granger.
And that is what I stated in the article.

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
  If an author has to use interviews or a website to add 
> important clues to what is written in the books, he/she has failed.
 
> The books must stand on their own. 

RMM:
Well, the books will stand on their own.  As books 6 and 7 have yet
to 
come out, we are all SPECULATING about what will happen.
I am anticipating that Hermione Granger is the subject of the
prophecy 
and I believe Jo Rowling will show us exactly that when she finishes 
the books.
Are you begrudging Jo the opportunity to give us hints and such to 
what is going on and what is to happen?

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> 
> << [Quoted from JKR's website] "In the dim and distant past 
> Hermione's surname was 'Puckle', but it didn't suit her at all and 
> was quickly changed for something a little bit less frivolous.">>
> 
> Notice the phrase "less frivolous", not "more
> symbolic".

RMM: :-)  I'm sorry but I have to laugh at this one.
Fact is, her surname is not Puckle but - Granger.
Again, you won't let Jo change her mind and develop the story the way 
she would like?  

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> The relationship of quicksilver/mercury to the 
> discussion of whether she was born in 1979 or 1980 doesn't matter
> if the initials HG aren't important.

RMM:  Yes, but to dentists who use MERCURY AMALGAM every day for
teeth 
fillings, HG is darned important!  :-)

Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> 
> << In the Q&A at the National Press Club, October 20, 1999, Jo 
> Rowling stated, in regard to Hermione's name, that it came from a 
> character in Shakespeare's play A Winter's Tale, although Jo says 
> that the characters are not at all similar. Jo thought it made
sense 
> for a couple of professional dentists to name their only daughter 
> something like that to show how clever they were.>>
> 
> Clever, as in pretentious, as in `look how well-read we are'.

RMM:
Now Hermione's parents are "pretentious"?  
I pity you folks out there who have no clue about the characters in 
Jo's books.  Hermione's parents are nothing of the sort.

Ravenclaw Bookworm: 
> This is partially correct.  The Roman calendar was a lunar
calendar. 
> But your logic doesn't hold up.
> 
> First, the Roman calendar started on the vernal equinox, not March 
> 1st.  (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar.)

RMM:
Incorrect, see here:
http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/aegsa/rome/romecal.html
and here for the description for March 1:
http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/aegsa/rome/mar01.htm#mar01
also here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~walterk1/Patr/Misc/TheCalendar.html

Sorry, you're logic doesn't add up.  

Ravenclaw Bookworm: 
>  Are you 
> counting from the full moon, new moon, or the phase of the moon
that 
> occurred on the equinox?
>  To say that the moon is 
> "historically" waning on September 19th is inaccurate.

RMM:
Well the IDES of September were historically on the 13th.
And the IDES of any month were associated with the FULL MOON.
See here:
http://www.12x30.net/calends.html

Again, your information is faulty. :-)

As a side note, and I forgot to put it in my article, but did you
know 
that September is known as the MAGICAL MONTH?

RMM
www.hermionegranger.us