[HPforGrownups] Why such a point of characters' birthdays?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 110929


--- caspenzoe <cruthw at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Sorry if this question has already been addressed, but, I can't
> help 
> but wonder why, with the exception of Harry and Neville (whose 
> birthdays are, or at least seem at this point to be, pivotal to her
> plot), JKR seems to feel that it's important to give us the 
> birthdays of the characters in the series. 
> What, for instance, is the point of telling us that today is
> Percy's birthday? August is not the seventh month in our current 
> calendar or 
> in any Latin or other calendar that I know of. Therefore, this 
> information does not seem to be clue-related (clarifying or 
> muddying) in any way. Likewise, why do we need to know that Fred's 
> and George's birthdays fall on April 1st or that Ron's falls in 
> March? Never, so far (please correct me if I'm wrong) has the 
> celebration of anyone's birthday other than Harry's and Dudley's - 
> oh and NHNick's - ever even been mentioned in canon.
>
> Caspen   


She's taking pity on all those devoted fans who check her website
everyday looking for new information.  Alternately, she's giving them
crumbs to whet their appetites for more info.  

Magda (who can never find the stupid bloody #@*%^ door anyway)


		
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