Why such a point of characters' birthdays?

[lifeavantgarde]

No: HPFGUIDX 111069

>>>James:
The birthdays of Harry, Ron, Hermione, and maybe Neville, Luna, and 
Ginny will probably have some effect on the storyline in regards to 
apparation licenses and coming of age (as mentioned elsewhere in the 
thread), but aside from that, I'd say just for fun.<<<

>>Justine:
I had a scary thought.  Let's assume that she's wishing them happy 
birthdays in the present.  That is, "Happy 24th Birthday, Harry 
Potter!"  I doubt we'll see the same for James, Lily, or ::cringes:: 
Sirius; a tribute to the dead (whether on the birthday or on the 
deathday) is more likely for those who have passed on.  Perhaps 
she's showing us who the survivors are, those who live through the 
books and are still around now...  So Neville, Harry, Ginny, and 
Percy live. Ron's came around before the site opened--though I 
honestly can't remember when the site opened--and so did the 
birthday of the twins.  It's unsettling, though, that from the 
opening to Neville's birthday, there were none to mention.<<

Stefanie:
Just for a reference point, the site opened on May 15th of this year.
http://www.mugglenet.com/fusion3/fullnews.php?id=1183

It would seem that she's wishing birthdays in the present as she has 
confirmed the years of the books' events on the CoS DVD. Given that, 
those in Harry's year are turning 24 this year, etc. Now, the only 
birthdays we have definitely either from the site or the books are 
Neville, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred, George, Ginny, and Percy. We 
have an approximation of Angelina's birthday (sometime in the week 
after Hallowe'en [GoF 16]).

So we have several possibilities: 
1) If she *is* wishing happy birthdays to those alive now, either
     (a) there are no birthdays between 5/15 and 7/30 or
     (b) those with birthdays between this period have died
2) If she's going to wish a birthday whether that person is alive or 
not "now."
     (a) there are no birthdays between 5/15 and 7/30 or
     (b) there *are* birthdays then, but they are of characters that 
aren't in the "make it on the calendar" club

Which leaves us a year of watching the calendar either way. Perhaps 
she's only wishing birthdays to people who've gone to school with 
Harry at one point? Only to Gryffindors? To whomever she invites 
into "the club" (just to give us all frayed nerves)?

Stefanie
Who is on pins and needles waiting for either a dead person to show 
up or for a live "birthday'd" person not to make it on