He seemed to shrink a little at my response. Knowing full well that I placed birthdays highly. It always made me wonder why I put such high emphasis on birthdays, but I now know why. In my first life, birthdays were days I would rather forget before Hogwarts. It was Helena who showed me that birthdays could be a wondrous time instead of dread. It certainly helped that I was no longer living in the same castle as Uther.