Azkaban/ Order of the Phoenix - calendar

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18103

Dave wrote:

> If Harry got sent to Azkaban for killing Cedric, that would
> make *two* people framed for murders actually commited
> by Wormtail!

Good point!
 
> How might he be rescued?  Perhaps Padfoot?

Perhaps by Voldemort calling away the Dementors and letting all the 
Death Eaters go free.  Along with them pour ordinary criminals and 
Unjustly Imprisoned Harry.  Yet another infuriating irony for poor 
ol' V if he frees Harry unwittingly.

Seriously, do you really think Fudge would get Harry sent to 
Azkaban?  Without a trial?  St. Mungo's is nearly as horrible a 
thought, but more likely.  Dumbledore wouldn't allow either one, 
natch, but Fudge could come get Harry at Privet Drive this summer and 
cause a lot of havoc before anyone else knew what was going on.  Mmm, 
the possibilities!

Re: calendar, I didn't mean to say I don't think the usual chronology 
is correct:  Harry born 1980, he starts at Hogwarts 1991, GoF ends 
1995, etc.  That is the way I think of it, not Dave's thought that 
GoF ends in 2000, because after all, when we finally get OoP, only a 
summer (or a couple of weeks, more likely) will have elapsed for 
Harry, while we'll have waited nigh on two years (-pant- agua! 
agua!).  All I meant was that JKR steers clear of specific dates most 
of the time, so that while her personal wall chart may say "Summer 
1995:  Harry has just won the Triwizard Tournament," she actually may 
never give any indication that that is the year.  And as time goes 
on, this may prove a wiser and wiser thing, because we are going to 
get more and more out of whack with Harry, until book 7 is published 
in, say, 2006 and takes place almost a decade earlier.  To keep the 
feeling that the books are contemporary with us, she may never give 
an anchor like Nick's cake again.  (That's okay--we only need one!)

And I, for one, will be very happy not to hear about the Marauders' 
having been at Woodstock (or the Isle of Wight, as it may be).

Amy Z
wishing she'd wake up and find out that the publication date is May 
200*1*