Author mistake, Maybe??

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 55492

--- 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??? 
> 
> "graniteworks"


bboy_mn:

This collection of figures only does not work if you assume that
'deathday' is day of death. 

If dead people simple change their birthdays to deathdays then it all
add up. 

Nick was 100 when he died, and it's been dead for 400 years; 100 + 400
= 500, 100 years of life and 400 years of death. 

So we are merely assume that deathday is day of death, when dead
people may simple be celebrating years of existance, and framing the
aanniversary in the context of their current state of existance which
is death.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn