[HPforGrownups] Further speculation on Dates in WW

[Grace Saalsaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 45913


From: Barb:

I think we have to remind ourselves that there are some things that are just
not important to JKR, and dates are a very big something about which she
doesn't seem to give a fig.  Based on CoS and the chapter about Nick's
Deathday party, for instance, it would seem that Harry was born on July 31,
1980.  However, this would put his eleventh birthday on a different day of
the week than that indicated in the first book.  She has Ginny saying she
has wanted to go to Hogwarts since Bill went, rather than Percy, who
actually started school after she was somewhat sentient, .........//  sorry,
major snip there but this was the only part of the post that I was thinking
about.

Me:

I have a sister that is 18 years younger than myself.  One thing about
little kids, they often use the most convenient word rather than the word
that they really meant.  It might be a word that is almost right - but then
again... not quite.

Ginny saying she has wanted to go to Hogwarts *since* Bill went....

Maybe what Ginny really meant to say was  she has always wanted to go to
Hogwarts *because* Bill went.  Bill could be her favorite brother and he
talked about Hogworts with her.  *Since* Bill went there and had a great
time, she has wanted to go there too.

Grace