[HPforGrownups] Re: Tom Riddle's Birthday STRANGE Isn't it-- Was Happy Birthday list

[Tonya Minton]

No: HPFGUIDX 154518

On 6/28/06, bluesqueak <pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>    --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com <HPforGrownups%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Tonya Minton"
> <tonyaminton at ...> wrote:
> <snip> I find it strange that Tom was born on December
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> > 31st. Why do you think that JKR picked that date of all dates to
> > have Lord Voldemort be born?? I am very curious about this choice
> > of date. I would have said WELL of course if he had been born on
> > Halloween, you know what I mean??
> >
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> Pip!Squeak writes:
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> I think it continues Tom's association with death - just like his
> yew wand. December 31st is when the Old Year dies. Also, the
> superstition is that a bad New Year's Eve means a bad year and it's
> described in HBP Ch. 13 as a really nasty night, snowing and bitter
> cold. New Year's Eve is also associated with evergreens (as is all
> the period around the Winter Solstice), which reflects Tom's
> obsessions with death and immortality.
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> There is also another superstition, which is that a child born on
> New Year's DAY, as the year is born, is exceptionally lucky. It's
> possible that JKR is playing around with that as well - a powerful
> wizard born as the year dies, showing how he''ll be exceptionally
> unlucky for the world.
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> Pip!Squeak
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Now Tonya:

I didn't know all the superstition surrounding a December 31st Birthday.
Thank you for the information.

Would it then be the reason why Harry's Birthday is exactly 6 months before
Tom's show that he is lucky and exceptional??  What does Harry's Birthday
show us??  What does Dumbledore's Birthday show us??

Very thought provoking!!  We should also analyse Neville's Birthday....

Tonya
Very excited to start reading about Birthday meanings!!

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