Birthday Lists / Re: Who dies in 7?

[lolita_ns]

No: HPFGUIDX 146486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Williams 
<becks3uk at y...> wrote:
>
> 
> sunnylove0 at a... wrote:    
> > Of course we do have the Birthday Theory, that all characters 
> > who are wished a Happy Birthday in 2005/2006 are still alive 
> > to celebrate.
> >
> > Both Albus Dumbledore and Sirius Black are left off the 
> > birthday lists, and so are Tonks and Trelawney.
> 
> 
>   Becky asks:
>    
> This is interesting, I haven't heard of this before. Where are 
> the birthday lists? I can't find them.


Lolita:

As far as I know, there are no *lists*, but only regular *happy 
birthdays* on JKR's site. The happy birthday notices are only there 
for the duration of the day which is a character's birthday. E.g. On 
July 31st there was a notice 'Happy birthday Harry Potter', and the 
most recent one (as far as I know) was on January 9th for Snape. 

While I do agree that there is a possibility that the ones who were 
wished a happy birthday are the survivers, I think that we can also 
allow for the possibility that some people are not on the list 
because they are either not important enough, or else favourite 
enough. Which would explain the absence of e.g. Trelawney. With 
Dumbledore, otoh, I think that the birthday list theory sounds rather 
plausible. Also, Voldemort's absence combined with Harry's presence 
is a nice thought.

Cheers,
Lolita.