Timeline question

[raolin1 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30202

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Joanne0012 at a... wrote:
> At the top of the Lexicon's timeline page, there's a link to "more 
information" 
> that discusses the ONE date given in the canon, from which most 
other dates 
> in Harry's life are derived:
> 
> "We know that book 2 takes place in 1992 because Nearly Headless 
Nick holds 
> his 500th Deathday Party in chapter 8 " and his death date is gvein 
as 1492.
> 
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/time.html
> 
> Since his Deathday Party is on Halloween, that makes Harry's Year 2 
to be 
> 1992-93, so of course PS/SS, Book 1, is the previous year.
> 
> The usual excuse given for Dudley's Playstation is that, even 
though they 
> weren't officially available in England yet, they WERE available in 
Japan, and 
> the Dursleys would do just about anything for their Duddy.


Given the fact that we don't know for sure if NHNick has been dead 
400 or 500 years from in-text sources, I wonder why this has been 
given precedence over other methods of figuring the date?  Using the 
Flamel date to give you a date of 1995 for the earlist avoids the 
thorny problem of the Playstation, and also conveniently ignores the 
one date we are given: which is inconsistent with NHNick's claim in 
PS/SS that he is nearly 400 years dead.

Joshua Dyal