timeline

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No: HPFGUIDX 30273

At 07:29 PM 11/27/01 +0000, you wrote:
>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.

The question would be then, I think, just how much research did JKR do on 
the real Flamel. Did she do a cursory examination of the mythology of the 
Philosopher's Stone, and take only the names and the minimal background? Or 
did she do extensive research and base the timeline of the entire series on 
the real-life dates surrounding Flamel.
I'm more inclined to believe the former, and that the NHN 500th deathday 
date is the accurate one. It's easily explained that the almost 400 years 
line is an date that she later changed. It does happen, to the best of authors.

Eleri


Eleri Hamilton
Chronological Grownup
"Honestly woman, and you call yourself our mother!"