Birthdays on website

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 119812


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kjirstem" 
<stonehenge.orders at v...> wrote:
> 
> I looked back at the record (on Mugglenet, is there one around here
> somewhere?) of JKR's website birthday wishes and realized that most 
of
> the recipients are generally considered to be "good".  The list is: 
>  
> Neville (July 30) 
> Harry (July 31)
> Ginny (Aug 11) 
> Percy (Aug 22) 
> Hermione (Sept 19) 
> McGonagall (Oct 4) 
> Flitwick (Oct 17) 
> Molly Weasley(Oct 30) 
> Bill Weasley(Nov 29) 
> Hagrid (Dec 6)
> Charlie Weasley (Dec 12)
> 
> I don't recall much discussion about whether any of these people are
> ESE, though I could easily have missed it.  Percy is the only one
> whose good/evil status I've questioned.  I know we only have 6 
months
> of birthdays so far, but I wonder if this can be taken as an
> indication that Percy will turn out to be a good guy in the end.  
> 
> Even if he is an obnoxious git.
> 
> kjirstem - who has almost the same birthday as Charlie and thinks 
his
> job is the coolest

Hickengruendler:

In my opinion, yes it can. After all, there is only half a year left 
(some time between 5 and 7 months, depending when exactly JKR decided 
to add birthdays on her website), and it seems impossible, that none 
of the villains had a birthday so far. Besides, wishing Umbridge, 
Voldemort or even Draco a Happy Birthday would really be a bit odd. I 
would say this makes it 95% sure that Percy is a good guy, too. I say 
95% because I wouldn't put it past JKR to add Percy's birthday as a 
red-herring on the list, so that we all trust him and are surprised, 
when he turns out to be a villain after all. But I don't really think 
so. IMO, Percy is too straightforward to be a real villain, anyway. 
It's not that he made a secret where his loyalities lied in OotP. A 
villain would have seemingly joined Dumbledore's group to report 
everything to Fudge.

Hickengruendler, who's really hoping for Snape's birthday, because he 
thinks that Snape is a good guy as well.