Dates in QTA/FB (was have books in hand)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 14267

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., absinthe at m... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > Heidi wrote:
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> > > > If dumbledore is alive tto writ book intros in 2001, then 
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> > > > survives the end of book 7?


The book Quidditch Through the Ages has been around since Harry 
entered Hogwarts. This passage is from Chap. 11, of HP/SS

"[Hermione] had also lent [Harry] Quidditch Through the Ages, which 
turned out to be a very interesting read. 

Harry learned that there were seven hundred ways of committing a 
Quidditch foul and that all of them had happened during a World Cup 
match in 1473; that Seekers were usually the smallest and fastest
players, and that most serious Quidditch accidents seemed to happen 
to them; that although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees 
had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara 
Desert."

And sure enough, all of those bits of trivia are included in QTA!

 - CMC