Author mistake, Maybe??

[Dicentra spectabilis]

No: HPFGUIDX 55457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "graniteworks at s..."
<graniteworks at s...> wrote:
> Did you ever notice that in HP&SS(#1) at the welcoming feast in the 
> beginning when Harry and Ron first meet Nearly Headless Nick, the 
> Gryffindor ghost, Nick states that he hasn't eaten anything in almost 
> 400 years but in HP&CS(#2) Nearly Headless Nick has his 500th death 
> day party? He seemed to have jumped from 400 years dead to 500 years 
> dead in one year. Do you think that that is just a mistype or what??? 
> 
It appears to be a mistype.  If you assume that the date on the cake
is correct, NHN died in 1492, meaning that the events in CoS take
place in 1992.  The new CoS DVD provides a timeline that confirms
this.  If you'd like to read more about it, look in the Harry Potter
Lexicon at the address below.

http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/timeline.html#Important

--Dicentra