[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Harry Potter "cannot" be set in 1991-?

[Odile Falaise]

No: HPFGUIDX 79427


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita
Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...> and others wrote
about: 

<previous notes snipped>

<<<Dudley chucked his Playstation out the window, thus
was no longer able to play Mega-Mutilation III, in
GOBLET OF FIRE, set in 1994, when (the list has
agreed) Playstations were not yet available in UK or
US, but had been test-marketted in Japan. I am not
aware of any reference to a Playstation in HARRY
POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. Please give me a
quote with enough context that I can find where in the
book to look it up and see if Scholastic changed
it.>>>

Odile chiming in:

Ummm... regarding Playstations, and setting them in
the HP timeline?  With all due respect, umm, er
*shuffles feet* - I don't play videogames.  I have no
idea what the difference is between a Playstation, an
X-Box, a Gameboy, etc. etc. (and no, that is not an
invitation for anyone to enlighten me).  I don't know,
and it is not really important to me - I do know,
however, that a spoiled couch potato boy like Dudley
Dursley is likely to have way too many videogames and
other gadgets.  I wonder if JKR is so schooled in the
history and release dates of certain videogame systems
that she would know enough to insert the correct
versions into her stories, which, though set in the
early '90s, were written later?

I don't mean to be snerky - it's just an observation. 
^_^

Odile