Ages? Copyright-date-based dating

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No: HPFGUIDX 7929

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Stephanie Becvar" 
<StephBecvar at h...> wrote:
> I have a question, i read somewhere, maybe on this list maybe not, 
that 
> someone assumed sirius, lupin, snape, etc. were about 43.  This 
makes no 
> sense to me, bc that would make Lily around 30 when she had Harry.  

Personally, I prefer to ignore the "Deathday Party Dating" and assume 
that the main storyline of PS/SS takes place in 1997 (the original 
copyright date), and Harry was born in 1986. Thus;

1945; Dumbledore defeats Grindelwald, returning to Hogwarts shortly 
after.
1948; Chamber of Secrets opened.
1976; Voldy begins to gather power.
c.1979; MWPP plus Lily graduate Hogwarts.
1979-86; This period gives J&L time to make their money, settle down 
and get married, before;
July 31, 1986; Harry is born
Late 1987; Major badness happens. J&L dead, Sirius imprisoned, 
Pettigrew "rats himself out", Harry winds up in Dursleyland.
c. 1996; Sony introduces PlayStation in North Am.& Europe. Dudley, of 
course, has one of the first.
Sep. 1997; Harry begins Hogwarts.
Summer 2000; Dinky Duddydums defenestrates his abovementioned 
PlayStation. Bets now open on whether Vern& Petunia bought him a PS2 
to replace it.

The only thing with this is, of course, how DO you explain Nearly 
Headless Nick? 
OK, the "only thing", um, aside from the fact that as I write this, 
it puts about half of GoF in the future (Cedric Diggory lives! For 
now at least...)