[HPforGrownups] Re: PlayStation? (Was: Sirius Black's math mistake?)

[heidit at netbox.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 37913

Good catch! It bugged me too, so I looked up the month it was introduced in japan. Summer, 1994 - although it was August. You could get one for an insane price in the uk that fall, so clinically, jkr was literally off by 3 months or so.

Heidi Tandy
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From: "draco382" <draco382 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: PlayStation? (Was: Sirius Black's math mistake?)
Real-To:  "draco382" <draco382 at yahoo.com>

--- 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



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