Timeline question

[raolin1 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30199

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., frances at f... wrote:
> The book Hermione gets the information on Nicolas Flamel is 
described 
> as an "enormous old book" (PS English edition page 160). So 
although it 
> says he is 665, we don't have any indication when the book was 
written 
> and therefore, no idea when is 665th birthday was. Also, it is 
> Perenelle, his wife who is listed as being 658, not Nicholas.
> 
> Frances


Whoops!  It does?  Anyway, that will make the books later, then: 1995 
at the earliest.  However, I always assumed Hermione calculated his 
age from the date given: what would be the point of a book printing 
someone's age when it would quickly be out of date?

Joshua Dyal