Timeline question

[raolin1 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30239

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., frances at f... wrote:
> Well, you learn something new every day. I never realised the 
character 
> in the book was based on a real person. Interesting piece of 
> information. 
> 
> Of course one could say that although the character in HP 
literature is 
> based on a real person, the actual character isn't Flamel and thus 
his 
> year of birth doesn't count. In real life he and his wife died, but 
in 
> fiction the characters have lived to a ripe old age. 
> 
> Thanks for this, Joshua, I think I need to do some more research 
now. 
> First port of call is the Lexicon to see what Steve has to say 
about 
> these dates.
> 
> Frances


I didn't see anything in the Lexicon on him, but maybe I just missed 
it: that's part of why I brought it here.  Now, although I saw 
several sources that nailed down his year of birth, I've been told 
here that his exact year of birth is a matter of some debate amongst 
occultists.  I still haven't been able to find anything on that, but 
it's a caution.

Still, for what it's worth, I'm going to champion the Flamel 
timeline, setting PS/SS during the 1994/1995 (or possibly 1995/1996) 
school year instead of the Nearly Headless Nick timeline setting it 
during the 1992/1993 school year.  The whole thing just fits better 
that way, and either way JKR made a mistake - either about Flamel's 
date or NHN's death date.  Because we have two different ages for NHN 
already, I'm ruling him the least reliable of the two, for my own 
purposes at least.

Joshua Dyal