Ages? Copyright-date-based dating

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7931

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, nlpnt at y... wrote:
> 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. 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...)

Interesting.  So by your dating, the Yule Ball occurred day before 
yesterday?  

--Ebony (who really ought to get offline now)