The timeline on the DVD *confirms* canon.

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 55833

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eileen <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
>  --- Ebony <selah_1977 at y...> wrote: >
> > Hermione's birthday *has been* confirmed in the
> > books already, in 
> > PoA.  Dumbledore calls Hermione and Harry "two
> > thirteen year old 
> > wizards". 
> 
> It strikes me that if you believe this is so, the DVD
> timeline can't be terribly important. After all, canon
> has confirmed it, no? You don't really believe that
> the DVD has settled things. You believe that canon has
> settled things.

Eileen, the definition of "confirm" is, according to Merriam-Webster:
1 : to give approval to : RATIFY 
2 : to make firm or firmer : STRENGTHEN 
3 : to administer the rite of confirmation to 
4 : to give new assurance of the validity of : remove doubt about by 
authoritative act or indisputable fact 

The reason why the DVD timeline confirmation is important is because 
the PoA quote has been largely written off by British fandomers who 
were educated under a system with a cutoff of September 1 as a 
Flint. 

Canon didn't *confirm* that Hermione is six weeks younger than Harry 
instead of ten months.  It introduced it as a fact.  The timeline 
*confirms* it.

I find it very surprising that your opinions on this issue are so 
strong, since in your first post, you stated that the 1979/1980 
dating wasn't a very big deal to you.  Judging from your replies 
here, it certainly doesn't seem as if that is that case.

And BTW, I am an academic.  But then again, since JKR's already 
confirmed this date in canon, if I ever wrote an *academic* paper on 
Hermione's birth date (as if!), I've already got the primary source 
quote.
  
> Jo Serenadust wrote of Ebony's acceptance of
>  the timeline as canon:
> >I can't agree here, since signing off on a timeline
> >someone else wrote isn't really in the same category 
> >as developing one yourself, or making public
> statements
> >in an interview, vague or otherwise. 
> 
> To which I can only say Amen. 

Interesting.  So the PoA quote remains a Flint for both of you, 
then?  Or is the issue not the Flintiness of said quote, but because 
I feel the DVD timeline confirms canon?

Never mind; I think I've got my answer.

Let's just agree to disagree.

--Ebony, still content about being proven right, still shaking her 
head and wondering how seismic June 21 will prove to be in *all* 
aspects of canon

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