[HPforGrownups] Re: Author mistake, Maybe??

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55496

In a message dated 4/16/2003 6:00:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bboy_mn at yahoo.com writes:


> <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.

Cassie: 

I'm assuming book 2 took place in 1992. 

Nick died in 1492 (CoS, Ch. 8. page 133) 

So...logically...he's been dead for 500 years. 

So I don't think the 'celebrating years of existance' theory works in this 
case and that there was a flaw. 

~Cassie~ 


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