[HPforGrownups] When do werewolves change?

[Maria Gromova]

No: HPFGUIDX 53938


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!


You know, maybe she mixed these things up on purpose, so that it would be
impossible to say which year it is. Dorothy Sayers made so with the tides,
which are important in one novel of hers, so that you can't calculate which
year or place it is. The people on the LordPeter mailing list can't make
head or tail of the dates in Sayers' novels just like this, and it is
commonly accepted she did it on purpose. The tides are connected with the
moon, of course, so one more parallel.
Maria.

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