News from Bloomsbury - finally!

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

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<harryp at s...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joanne0012 <
> Joanne0012 at a...>" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> > 
> > > 'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have
> > > told  you five years ago, Harry.  


> > 
> > Well, I'm certainlly delighted that the book is finally coming out
> > BUT I hope they take the time and trouble to edit it properly,
> > so we don't find errors like dead parents coming back out of
> > a wand in the wrong order.  Or Dumbledore telling Harry that
> > he should have told him something 5 years ago, when it's
> > been less than 5 years since they first met.


> 
> Perhaps Dumbledore regrets (too strong a word?) not having 
> introduced himself to Harry earlier than events actually 
> transpired.
>
> Ecaplan

bboy_mn:
What I'm going to say isn't news, other people have already pointed it
out. I'm just going to be a little more obnoxious about it.

'five years' doesn't mean 5.000000 years. It means about five years;
about.

Harry's in his fifth year, Dumbledore runs a school, his mind thinks
in school years. A fifth year student is five years separated from a
first year student. So, in student time, five years. 

About five years ago, he thinks he should have told Harry this
information. If he is referring to telling Harry BEFORE Harry started
school them it is getting very close to 5 years exactly (still a bit
short), depending on when before Harry started that Dumbledore might
have told him.

So five years is not an absolute precision unit of time, it's a
generalization. 


Of couse, that's just my opinion.

bboy_mn