Timeline, was SMH article

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Tue Oct 30 00:46:56 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> 
> Monday, October 29, 2001, 7:09:53 AM, heidit at n... wrote:
> 
> hnc> There's also a link to a purported interview with Harry - 
> hnc> 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/29/entertainment/entertain3.html
> hnc> The fake interview is, of course, inaccurate and would offend 
JKR's 
> hnc> inconsistency meter, as it interviews a 15 year old Harry, 
when every 
> hnc> LOON and wanabealoon knows that he's 21. Oh well - at least 
the 
> hnc> bottom says, "Ministry Of Magic warning: as Scott Ellis is a 
graduate 
> hnc> of The Slytherin School Of Journalism and lives with Rita 
Skeeter, 
> hnc> his articles should be mistrusted." Nice to see a paper with a 
good 
> hnc> sense of humor.
> 
> The LOON-adopted Timeline is widely accepted, but it is *not*
> Canon!  I believe the evidence of Nick's Deathday cake is
> inconclusive, and other factors like the full moon on the night
> Wormtail escapes and Dudley's potentially anachronistic Playstation
> are more critical.  (See my posts in the main HP4GU List on the
> Timeline issue.)
> 
> -- 
> Dave

Of course, the chance of WB having forked out the extra time and 
effort (to say nothing of losing the movie's only product-placement 
opportunities) to backdate the Muggle-world sets to 1991 are 
somewhere between slim and none....we'll probably be lucky not to see 
any anachronisms in the baby Harry scenes





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