[HPforGrownups] Nitpicking already?

[Queer as John]

No: HPFGUIDX 49847

joywitch_m_curmudgeon <joym999 at aol.com> said:

> But the timeline of first four HP books goes from July just before
> the school year to June at the end of the school year, and OoP takes
> place in Harry's FIFTH year at Hogwarts.  Five years before anytime
> during Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts would have been in the year
> just before Harry entered Hogwarts, sometime before SS/PS.  How could
> Dumbledore have told Harry anything BEFORE Harry entered Hogwarts?
> Shouldn't that be FOUR years ago?

As someone on my LiveJournal pointed out, the quote possibly takes place at
the end of Book 5. I conjecture that it's Dumbledore's last gasp at Basil
Exposition before he dies, which he has to if JKR is using the hero-boy
genre as a model. Not that she is, of course.

--J

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