Why Harry Potter cannot be set in 1991-?

[psychic_serpent]

No: HPFGUIDX 79254

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> 
wrote:
> The pinning down of the exact dates of everything is something 
> that came about because of the fans.  If anything, she erred by 
> writing down the date of Nick's death, allowing us fans to get a 
> foothold to speculate.

There's absolutely no reason, why, in a fictional world, the Play 
Station couldn't exist earlier than in our world, although she may 
in fact have erred with Nick's deathdate (almost all of her Flints--
including the original one--have a connection to her innumeracy).  
There's another Flint connected to Nick as well--the fact that he 
said he hadn't eaten in about four hundred years, and yet has been 
dead for about five hundred years. Go figure.

OTOH, to my knowledge, JKR has never spoken in public objecting to 
public celebrations of Harry's 21st, 22nd or, this year, his 23rd 
birthdays.  I'm not aware of her ever saying, "No, you people have 
the year all wrong."  Until she does, despite the fact that her days 
of the week are wonky for the years in question, I'm assuming that 
the birth year of 1980 is correct for Harry, based upon the 
(admittedly dubious) info about Nick's deathdate.

--Barb

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