The Joke's on Me

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 175248

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
>
> The birthday greetings are still appearing at JKR's website. Which 
> reminds me of all the discussions about them. Were they for those who 
> would be on the good side, or to those who survive? What was the 
rhyme 
> or reason?
> 
> No rhyme, no reason from the look of it.
> 
> But I'm glad Snape got them.
> 
> Potioncat
>

Hickengruendler:

Definitely not for the survivors. Snape, Lupin, Fred and Dobby all got 
Birthday wishes. Every character, who got them, was goodish or at least 
not completely evil. The closest caming evil were Snape, who half of 
his life fought Voldemort, and Draco, who was more weak or naiv, than 
really evil.

My guess is, that it are characters, who are good, and who were still 
alive after HBP (JKR started with the birthday wishes, while writing 
Prince), which is why Dumbledore and Sirius didn't get a Birthday wish. 
Maybe now the victims of Deathly Hallows won't get one either. The next 
of them to come would be Snape in January. We'll see, if he still gets 
his birthday wish.