Happy Birthday.... Severus Snape.

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121474


Alla wrote: 
> > So, now we know - January 9. Waves at Potioncat. Is it close enough 
> > to what you wished for?
> > 
> 
> Potioncat:
> Thanks, Alla! I've never noticed before that the date changes on the 
> calendar before midnight.  Does it only do that when an important 
> date is on it?
> 
> OK, begin:  Does the Happy Birthday mean SS "is" really a good guy?  
> How does Trelawney's description of being born midwinter apply to 
> Snape? Does this have any impact on how we see the Pensieve incident 
> or think of the Prank? Does anyone have some spare candles?

Carol responds:
Thanks, Alla! I've been watching for Sevvie's birthday and asked
Potioncat to watch it for me while I was in California. We both
assumed that it would be in midwinter (not that, technically, we've
reached midwinter yet), though originally I guessed November. (Right,
Del?) Anyway, a cold, snowy month is appropriate for the cold-loving,
black-wearing Potions master.

Anyway, I'm very happy that Snape, like Flitwick and McGonagall, has
been wished a happy birthday, and I take that as a good sign. Now I'll
start guessing a birthday for Dumbledore. (Mid-April like Alla and me?)

And yes, I think Trelawney's description of Harry (which she thought
suggested he was born in midwinter) could be applied, with a bit of
stretching, to Snape: "Your dark hair, your mean stature, tragedy in
early life" (quoted from memory). True, we don't know that his early
life was tragic per se, but it was certainly unhappy. And although he
isn't described as short ("mean stature"), he's shorter than Sirius
and quite thin. 

Spare candles? I think we'll have to ask the Birthday Elves on the OT
Chatter list. Or, well, erm, I'll try to conjure some with a Bic pen,
but I don't think it will work.

Carol, raising a glass of leftover New Year's eggnog to Sevvie