[HPforGrownups] Trelawney and birthdays (mix-ups?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 134266

--- Inge <Elvishooked at hotmail.com> wrote:
> In one book Trelawney adresses Harry in class and asks if it isn't true 
> he's born around Christmas (or at least at winter-time - sorry I don't 
> remember). 
> Harry laughs - of course he's not born at winter.

It is in GOF, p 201 (US version)

"Saturn, dear, the planet Saturn!" said Profesor Trelawney,, " I was saying that Saturn
was surely in a position of power in the heavens at the moment of your birth...Your dark
hair...your mean stature...tragic losses so young in life...I think I am right in saying,
my dear, that you born in midwinter?" "No," said Harry, "I was born in July." 

> In HBP it turns out Tom Riddle is born on New Year .... 
> Could Trelawney somehow have gotten some sort of her mistaken birthdate 
> for Harry from Harry himself? Did she look at Harry and sensed the part 
> (Horcrux) of Tom Riddle inside him and therefore made the birthday-
> error?

I think this is deliberate, one of many subtle clues JKR filled the book with.
This was discussed on the list sometime ago when Snape's birthday was revealed to be
January 9th, making him a Capricorn (a Saturn sign), same as Voldemort.  Once again,
another subtle hint of the similarities/parallization between the three character (not
just Harry and Tom Riddle). 

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