Why such a point of characters' birthdays?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 111161

> HunterGreen:
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 On  this subject, isn't it odd that Harry always happily celebrates 
> Halloween even though its the anniversary of his parents' murder?
> 
Potioncat:
"But that happens all the time.  Someone close dies on a holiday.  
The rest of the world goes on celebrating the holiday and 
eventually, so do you. Besides, by the time he started celebrating 
Hallowe'en in Hogwarts style, his parents had been dead 10 (?) years."


DuffyPoo:
Also, Harry's not really connected to their deaths or to them for that matter.  It's a part of his life he doesn't remember.  His only memories of them have been the flash of green light, that combined with the cold laugh, then what was brought back to him by the Dementors.  Two of my grandparents died before I was born, one died when I was three.  If any of them had died on a holiday, it wouldn't have made a particle of difference to me.  As it is, my Mother died nine days before Christmas.  Apart from the first year, Christmas goes on as usual.


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