"[Five] Years": Canon precedence

[chthonia9 <chthonicdancer@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49900

Hi folks,

I was planning to restrain myself from logging on for a while, but 
couldn't keep away after yesterday's news...

Sorry if this has been raised before, but I just found this at the 
end of GOF (pg 605, UK children's edition):
"'Yes,' said Dumbledore. 'Mr Ollivander wrote to tell me you had 
bought the second wand, the moment you left his shop four years ago.'"

Start of PP/SS - end of GOF = four years
implies
Start of PP/SS - end of OOP = five years


So no FLINT (what exactly is a flint, anyhow?), just DD rounding time 
to the nearest year: "five years ago" means roughly "when you re-
entered the wizarding world."
And 'everything' will be revealed (or not) at the *end* of OOP.

I can't believe how much speculation we're wringing out of six 
sentences!  What's it going to be like with 768 *pages*?!!  I love 
this list!  :-)

Chthonia

(who thought that Harry was happily enjoying a rare Summer's day in 
the flowerbed, and after reading a couple of weeks worth of posts 
last night concludes that she doesn't have a hope of working out the 
OOP plot before page 765 or so.  It had never even *occured* to her 
that the Malfoys owned the Riddle House...)