Timeline question

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 30336

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> 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)***
> 
> I hereby announce the formation of HAWB-84 ("HArry Was Born in 1984").
> Two sickles per badge. :)

But isn't the reason the common 1980 timeline is so widely accepted is
because it fits with our own /real/ timeline?  JKR placed Harry in his
first year the first year SHE started writing him, right?  1991.  If
1984 were the case, then when Rowling started writing, she'd actually
be writing in the future.

-Megan (who thinks it would be nifty to have Harry born in 1984 after
all, because then he'd be only 17 days older than she)