Harry's B-day Re: Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[romulusmmcdougal]

No: HPFGUIDX 109358

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
Geoff:
> 
> Finally, Ted the weatherman. Suppose I say on a Wednesday, "I am 
> going to London next week". That does not necessarily mean in 
exactly 
> a week, i.e. the following Wednesday; it could be the Monday or the 
> Tuesday etc. Again, if RMM is being pedantic and Ted is saying that 
> Bonfire Night is exactly a week hence, that isn't the case based on 
> Tuesday 27/10/81 because Bonfire Night that year was on its normal 
> date, 5th November, the Thursday of the following week.
> 
> I rest my case.

RMM:
Geoff, I am sorry you continue to misunderstand me.  Perhaps there is 
something about the differences in our language?
When I say something like "see you next week" to someone, I do not 
mean to say that I will see you in exactly 7 days.
I am saying, I will see you sometime next week.  Okay?

Now, Ted the Weatherman is saying on Tuesday that Bonfire Night is 
next week.  He obviously is meaning "next week" the way I mean it, 
sometime next week.  One simply consults the calendar and sees that 
November 5th falls on a Thursday.  Counting back from that Thursday
of 
"next week" one arrives to Tuesday of this week and finds -- VOILA!! 
-- Tuesday, October 27, 1981.

Hence, the first book of Harry Potter started on Tuesday, October 27, 
1981.  I rest my case.

RMM
www.hermionegranger.us