Time: Harry Potter a different Universe with a Different Calander?

[psion_x]

No: HPFGUIDX 35692

How would you explain the problem of time in the Harry Potter 
series, just ignore it? Or does it bother you no end, until you have 
to start making up theories about mysterious extra days, or assume 
it was all just a typo. Do you think JKR ever noticed when writing 
that none of the dates match? Do you think she wrote the dates in 
the books to correspond with the year she actually WROTE them for 
example Goblet of Fire which should be 1994 follows a 1998 calander.

Do you think we can assume that for some reason the Wizarding world 
influenced the introduction of the Julian calander four years early, 
which would make the HP series half work.
Harry's birthday been on Tuesday July 31st doesn't work which ever 
way you put it, under the four years early assumption it's on a 
Monday, is that a believable mistake of Harry's?

The next time a date's specifically mentioned as far as I can tell 
is Trelawney's prediction to Lavender: "' Incidently that thing you 
are dreading- it will happen on Friday the Sixteenth of October.'" 
HP and the PA Pg.80 (Australain Paperback) But I ask just how 
reliable is Trelawney anyway? For the record the four years earlier 
calander has the 16th of October a Thursday. It's a bit weak, but 
Chapter 8 doesn't say in so many words that October 16th is a 
Friday, Lavender and Hermione merely mention the date, not the DAY.
There are a number of practice sessions between the beginning of the 
Chapter (starting October 1) to that time, so why assume it's a 
Thursday.

Plus if we consider HP a whole different Universe with a different 
calander we can assume that prehaps the phases of the moon are 
different as well. ( The Lexicon mentions that in PA the full moon 
doesn't occur when it's meant to).

So what do you think, mad speculation on my part?

Psion_x :O)