[HPforGrownups] Re: Lestranges' crime

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 8805


> I just went through an experience like this.  I was in a 
> store, flipping 
> through the WB page-a-day calendar, and thought, "Okay, if 
> they don't have 
> something special for Harry's birthday, they're complete 
> nitwits" (you may 
> have noticed that I devote an unhealthy amount of my life to 
> disparaging the 
> churners-out of merchandise . . . while stopping to look at 
> it every time I 
> go into a bookstore, natch), and you know, they DIDN'T!  Or 
> so I thought.  
> But before I tossed it aside in utter disgust, I flipped 
> through a few more 
> pages and there it was:  **July 25**:  Harry's 11th birthday. 
>  I was 100% 
> sure they were wrong but for the life of me I couldn't think 
> how I KNEW it 
> was July 31st.  Had I dreamed it up?  I just reread GoF and 
> he only says "I 
> was born in July."  Thought it must be in PS but couldn't 
> find it in the few 
> minutes I had to skim the relevant bits in the bookstore.  
> Today I got PS 
> from the library and found the incontrovertible proof, to my 
> great relief.  
> Sometimes you think you know something for certain but it was 
> actually a 
> leap of the imagination--usually, though, you're right.
> 
Urgh! I just looked at this and you are completely right, and they are
completely idiotic! What a screw-up (apart from the fact that this year
would actually be Mr Potter's *21st* birthday) - to get the DATE wrong is
just unjustifiable. 
It's a bigger boondoggle than Page 667 of the Us edition of GoF. 

Grrr.