Why Harry Potter "cannot" be set in 1991-? Puhleeeeze

[samnanya]

No: HPFGUIDX 79496

> > bboy_mn:
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Now we come to the true and only test of effective story writing. It 
doesn't matter if JKR's story stands up to intense timeline 
analysis; The only thing that matters is, did you believe it when you 
read it?
If you were so captivated by the story that the Playstation release
date was the farthest thing from your mind, and what happens next 
in the story was the most important thing on your mind, then JKR
succeeded totally as a writer. 
The fact that the timeline doesn't add up is nothing more than a 
bit of side trivia of obssessed HP nuts like us.
Just a thought.
bboy_mn

samnanya -
Thanks bboy for putting that so eloquently -- the time line does stand 
up in the most reliable source of canon of all - the text of the 
books. There is no doubt that Harry was born in 1980 unless Hagrid was 
lying and/or Nearly Headless Nick's cake decorator got his deathday 
wrong -- that is canon -- and a very well placed clue for book 5 
sleuths as well ..... 777
samnanya