[HPforGrownups] Further speculation on Dates in WW

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 45908


Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 9:55:58 AM, jastrangfeld wrote:

j> Ok, I neglected to mention what I was thinking.  Do the WW have their 
j> own calendar?  One that would be more accurate?  Possibly one that 
j> would explain why school always seems to start on a Monday?  I know 
j> they say the way we keep time is off by a minute every so many years 
j> (don't remember exactly how many, sorry.)  And then we have our leap 
j> years.  With all our calendar systems, I could see a different system 
j> in the WW.  However, doesn't Olivander's say something about having 
j> started in BC?

I have speculated in the past that perhaps the WW is still on the
Julian Calendar.  (The Muggles switched over to the Gregorian Calendar
in the 16th century.)  Perhaps the WW Calendar is "more accurate" in
the sense that Christ really was born in the year 1 CWE (Current
Wizarding Era) -- Most scholars think the Gregorian Calendar is off
by a few years.  In any case, these things might iron out some current
problems like Dudley's anachronistic Playstation, and Wormtail's
escape happening on a night that (on the Lexicon-accepted timeline)
was not anything near to a Full Moon.   In other words, yes, Harry was
born in 1981... 1981 CWE ... But that may have been, say, AD 1984.
(This date works for making the Playstation and the Full Moon work.)

-- 
Dave