Sorry, no flint

[Marcus <prefectmarcus@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49811

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David <dfrankiswork at n...>" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

> I reckon you are right, he is referring to that conversation in 
the 
> hospital wing at the end of PS.  In which case, assuming that OOP 
> covers only Harry's fifth year, it is at most only *four* years 
> previously that Dumbledore missed his opportunity.
> 
> In which case we have an OOP *FLINT*, right here.

> David

I noticed that too.  I was excited for a while but then cooled off.  

People use that expression, "five years ago", all the time to mean a 
time period of anywhere from three or four to seven or eight years 
previous.

It only counts if Dumbledore says something like, "I should have 
told you five years, six months, nine days, and two hours ago."