[HPforGrownups] Re: Timeline question

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 30334


> ***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)***

I hereby announce the formation of HAWB-84 ("HArry Was Born in 1984").
Two sickles per badge. :)  This alternate timeline clears up two pet
peeves I have about the conventional "Nick's 500th Deathday" timeline:

-- There was no full moon anywhere near the correct date for the
    climatic events of PoA.

-- Dudley's Playstation 2 is anachronistic.

But if Harry is born in 1984, with PS/SS in the 95-96' school year,
then the Playstation and the crucial night in PoA is in 1998.

Now, we have to work out the exact date of the PoA events because
there is no full moon on the sixth, which also doesn't fall on
a Thursday.  (But there's *no* year in a 10 year "radius" that
fulfills all three of those criteria.)  I figure it *has* to be
Thursday because of the final exam schedule, and in 1998, Thursday
June 11 was the *day after* a 100% full moon.  (We don't know how
much the moon has to wane before Lupin is safe from transforming,
but I'm guessing it must be at least 95% full, which gives us a window
of two or three days.)  So I imagine that PoA events happen from
9:05 PM (sunset) to just before midnight on June 11, 1998.  This
contradicts the date on Buckbeak's execution order, but I
conveniently attribute this to an error on the part of
Ministry of Magic bureaucracy.  From here, I'll work out an
alternate Potterverse timeline for my web page.
    
So what about Nick's deathday?  I have two theories: Either
Nick or the cake decorator got the date wrong; or the Wizarding
World could be on a slightly different calendar -- We know that
the Gregorian (i.e. Muggle) calendar is slightly off and that Christ
was actually probably born 2005 or 2006 years ago.  Maybe the Wizard's
calendar "has it right".

That's my take on the Timeline, and anyone is free to join the Club. :)

-- 
Dave

P.S. I worked all this out using the planetarium program _Redshift_.