Pitch black at 7 pm? (Was: Re: Gleanings from 3rd Viewing)

[oz_widgeon]

> > On June 21 in Edinburgh, the sun sets at 10:05 PM.

Yes, but on Sept 1, the day the train ride takes place, the sun sets 
at 8:09 PM (Sept 1, 1991 is the date I looked up) so if it takes, say 
10-11 hours on the train (really not an inconceivable amount of
time), 
they would be arriving after dark.

> *gritted teeth* And, in winter, it gets dark at about 3.30. No 
wonder people
> have S.A.D....
> 
> --John

Ah, poor John!  Alas, it gets quite dark here (Germany) very early in 
the winter as well.  Currently around 4:15, but soon, we too will be 
dark at 3:30 and not see the sunrise until around 9 am the next day.  
Not conductive to golfing (not to mention the cold), but happily we 
have hours and hours and hours of sunlight in the summer 5 am-almost 
midnight, so I can golf until my heart is content or my boss decideds 
I really DO have to come to work.


> *"Quidditch Through The Ages" by Kennilworthy Whisp: 14 Sickles 3 
Knuts
> *New Firebolt Broom: just over 100 Galleons
> *Watching Draco Malfoy being bounced up and down
> after being turned into a ferret: Priceless
> 
> The best things in life are free. For everything else, there's
Harry 
Potter.
 
Hee Hee!  I knew I liked you!  Still in the bedroom that used to be a 
sitting room?


>Don't forget, too, that LoTR has been welcomed into the hallowed 
>halls of "Accepted Literature" by now in ways that HP is not yet,
and 
>possibly will never be. LoTR has CLIFFS NOTES.

Remember though, LoTR has been around a lot longer than HP.  It's 
stature in 'literary circles' has grown with time (though I'm 
personally not a huge fan of them), in a way I'm hoping HP will do, 
once people get over their snobbery of it.  "Oh, you're reading HP?  
How very 'trendy' of you."  Argh! <grumbles to self about the 
ignorance of 'the cultured ones'>   Anyway, could you imagine a 
student wanting to read HP Cliffs Notes instead of the book itself?  
It makes me want to giggle, but then the boss might get suspicious 
about why I'm giggling at my computer instead of looking all serious 
and productive (which I really am, but right now I'm taking a break, 
albeit in secret).  HP Cliffs Notes would be quite a joke.  Okay,
back 
to work.  Don't tell Ron-I'm an accountant! 
Cheers all!
Slon