When do werewolves change?

[Jon]

No: HPFGUIDX 53900

Mark D wrote:

> Personally, I don't buy the Harry Potter Lexicon's stand of 
placing 
> the books in the early 1990's. It places PofA in 94-95 which the 
> climactic night of Harry meeting Sirius on June 6 1995. The great 
> flaw with trying to tie a fictional book down to a physical date 
is 
> that JUNE 6 1995 WAS NOT A FULL MOON!!!! According to the Phases 
of 
> the moon table, the full moon for June 1995 was on the 26th 
starting 
> at 11:33 am GMT!
> 
> Does this make any sense to anyone else? Opinions?

I reply:

>From what I've seen of public opinion on the inaccuracy of dates in 
the Potterverse versus dates in the real world, I think the best 
summary would be, "Ignore it, it's just a book."  JKR is a great 
author and a superb worldweaver, but the dates in her novels just 
don't match up.  AFAIK, the Lexicon uses the date given for Nearly-
Headless Nick's Deathday party to place the books in time.  I may be 
wrong on this, but I think that's the only stated date, year-wise, 
on record in the Potterverse.  However, if this is right, the date 
of chapter 2 in SS (Oct. 31) doesn't fall on a Tuesday, which is 
stated in the books.  My thoughts are, don't try to get the things 
pinned down in the real world, you'll just give yourself a 
headache.  

Hobbit-guy, who finished the whole time-travel discussion too 
recently to willingly take another headache.