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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 109543

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josh Warren" 
<wjwarren4269 at c...> wrote:

> > RMM:
> > Do you mean October 31st being on the Tuesday mentioned in book 
> PS/SS?
> > That would be 1989, 1995, and 2000.
> 
> 89 or 95 could fit in for when she wrote that particular passage... 
> perhaps she simply consulted her current-year's calendar? Oops! :)
> 
> Josh

Geoff:
The thought had crossed my mind that she might have taken the day for 
the year in which she was writing.

There is a point here that, if you are going to be absolutely spot on 
with the day on which a date fell, you need to take time to calculate 
it. I said the other day that I only noticed the discrepancy with 
31/07/91 when I was researching something else to do with dates; to 
work out that information means either fiddling with paper and 
pencil - or as the idea suddenly dawned on me last week - using the 
calendar facility on my computer!!

Just to underline my position. I accept the dates given by characters 
in PS, i.e. Harry's birth date being 31/07/80 and Voldemort's attack 
being on Hallowe'en 1981. I curently don't see any reason why Jo 
Rowling should sprinkle red herrings in that area...