Time scales at the end of PoA (LONG)

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 32830

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
. . . > I have just spent 2 1/2 hours working this out so please be gentle when 
you point out all the holes that are in it!
> 
>. . .  8:55 HRH go to Hagrid's, HH2 waiting in Cupboard. (From the book)
> 9:05 HRH arrive at Hagrid's, HH2 just behind them.

Yikes, Holly, that WAS a labor of love (and LOON-iness)!  It seems completely 
consistent with the descriptions in the book .  There are only two small problems 
that I can spot:

Almost certainly typos:  From 
10:00 Lupin transforms 
until
10:13 Snape arrives
I think you meant those time to be after 11 o'clock, not 10

The other problem, which I think is a Flint or some other error on JKR's part, is 
that sunset occurs long after 9 PM in Scotland in mid-June.  The text contains 
multiple references to the setting sun and growing darkness (as a 
suspense-building technique, I suppose) before the kids even enter Hagrid's and 
the whomping willow, but this would not have been happening until closer to 10 
PM.  But since JKR send them back 3 hours, I guess she has decided that sunset 
is 9 PM.  Shall we just decide that wizards don't keep daylight savings time (or 
whatever they call it in Britain), though this complicates the train-departure 
schedule of every Sept. 1?