PlayStation? (Was: Sirius Black's math mistake?)

[draco382]

No: HPFGUIDX 37899

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Jamie:"When Sirius speaks to Peter (p. 370) he says, 
> "Voldemort's been in hiding for fifteen years, they say he's half 
> dead."  As far as I can tell, Voldemort can only have been in 
hiding 
> for twelve to thirteen years, if the infant Harry defeated him on 
> Halloween, 1981.  It may be just a rough estimation on Sirius's 
part, 
> but why would he be so unspecific when he  clearly knows exactly 
how 
> many years he spent in prison?"
> 
> It doesn't seem likely, but it may be that Sirius is counting some 
> time before Voldemort was defeated as being "in hiding." The 
obvious 
> objection to that is that Voldemort was at his most powerful before 
he 
> came calling at Godric's Hollow.  Otherwise, I don't see an 
> explanation.


Hi, I have been "lurking" for quite a long time now, but since the 
topic of time discrepancy came up, I thought I would throw my two 
cents in.  There is a scene in GoF where Harry writes a letter to 
Sirius saying:
"...They told him they'd have to cut his pocket money if he keeps 
doing it, so he got really angry and chucked his PlayStation out of 
the window" --Goblet of Fire, pg 27)
Believe it or not, that actually stood out to me for some reason.  I 
looked this up and apparently, Sony released PlayStation in the U.S 
and UK only in 1995, and I'm guessing that this scene (which happens 
during the summer right after their third year) is in 1994?  oh 
well...I guess this goes to prove that...I have entirely too much 
time on my hands.  :-)

~P