Why such a point of characters' birthdays?

[lifeavantgarde]

No: HPFGUIDX 111100

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
>  
> > DuffyPoo:
> > I had this very thought when Harry's birthday appeared on July 
> 31st.  I don't know about anyone else, but I don't mark the 
birthday 
> of deceased loved ones on my calendar, only those for whom I need 
to 
> remember to buy/send a card or gift.  
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> But we do not know if JKR is doing anything more than having fun. 
> And we don't know if she is considering the RW present or book 6 
> present.  And certainly, as she writes book 6, Harry is alive.  I 
> didn't see the entry for Percy, did it say "Happy Birthday 
Percy"?  
> Very interesting given that he's not in favor at the moment.  
Can't 
> wait to see what it says about Snape!  Or for that matter, Tom 
> Riddle.
> 
> And, along that line, if you buy a Scouting calendar, it will note 
> both Lord Baden-Powell's and Juliette Gordon Lowe's birthdays.  
> Although both are long since gone.  (founders of the Scouting 
> movement)

Stefanie:
Very true. We have various presidents birthdays marked on US 
calendars, but, only those which have been instated as national 
holidays. (Guh. Which Harry Potter's most certainly would be in any 
case. ::whimper::)

I'm still convinced that she considers the RW "the present" just 
judging from the timeline on the CoS DVD. She approved that timeline 
which states Harry's birthday as July 31, 1980. In this case, 
Harry's seventh year would've been in 1997...we've escaped certain 
doom and not known the better of it, weird enough :-D

Like I signed my other post...we won't actually know what's going on 
until either a person we canonically know as dead is celebrated or 
someone who's birthday we know doesn't show up. As of now, we know:
Fred - April 1
George - April 1
Neville - July 30
Harry - July 31
Ginny - August 11
Percy - August 21
Angelina - The week after Hallowe'en (GoF 16)

JKR's desktop calendar does seem to be "wizarding" as per the wizard 
of the month...if any of the kids birthdays have been instated as 
holidays since 1997, I guess it would be on there.

Stefanie
Who is weirded out by RW/WW crossoverness of this whole bit Xo)