[HPforGrownups] Time: Harry Potter a different Universe with a Different Calander?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 35729


Sunday, February 24, 2002, 7:07:32 PM, psion_x wrote:

p> How would you explain the problem of time in the Harry Potter 
p> series, just ignore it? Or does it bother you no end, until you have 
p> to start making up theories about mysterious extra days, or assume 
p> it was all just a typo.

I've written about this at length in the past, but yes it does bother
me... What Mariahisabel says about JKR "writing for herself" is all
very well from a "Harry Potter as Literature" standpoint, but from a
"Harry Potter as History" one, there are many problematic things...
If your search this list's archives you can probably find my own
solutions to some of the problems. (Basically a combination of the
"four or five years" difference, faulty memories, and typos on
official MoM documents.)

p> Do you think we can assume that for some reason the Wizarding world
p> influenced the introduction of the Julian calander four years early, 
p> which would make the HP series half work.

My personal theory (stated briefly) is that the Wizarding World
somehow avoided all the old anomalies that were solved (and all the
new ones that were created) by the Muggles' transitions to the
Julian and then to the Gregorian Calander.  No doubt someday some
brilliant Potterologist will come up with a "Wizard Calander" that
irons out all the discrepancies.

-- 
Dave