[HPforGrownups] Deathday - 100 years discrepancy

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No: HPFGUIDX 69467


On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 05:05 PM, jlh_hp wrote:

> First post.  How did I go all this time not knowing this was here?
> I just started re-reading PS/SS, after finishing OOP.  I have done
> this several times with the first four, while waiting for OOP.
> However I never noticed the discrepancy between PS/SS on p. 123
> Nearly Headless Nick says "I haven't eaten for nearly four hundred
> years".  Then in CoS p. 129 Nick says "Well, this Halloween will be
> my five hundredth deathday".  How did Sir Nicholas leap forward 100
> years between Harry's first and second years at Hogwarts?

Well, perhaps on the big deathday anniversaries (100th and 500th) he 
_does_ eat... that is what i've always thought. time since last eaten 
hardly means time since death.

--Random832