Seventh month Dudley

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89625

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wrote:

Meri:
> I believe Sherrie is right about this. In SS, when they go to the 
> zoo for Dudley's birthday and Harry gets in trouble for freeing the 
> boa constrictor, Harry is given a major punnishment, and when he is 
> finally released from the cupboard under the stairs the shcool 
> hollidays have started. So Dudley's birthday must be at least in 
> June. 

Geoff:
Not necessarily. The standard end of term in the UK is about the 
third weekend in July - last year, it was 19/07/03.

As you say, we are told in PS that "by the time he was allowed out of 
his cupboard again, the summer holidays had started and Dudley had 
already broken his new cine-camera, crashed his remote-control 
aeroplane and, first time on his racing bike, knocked down old 
Mrs.Figg as she crossed Privet Drive on her crutches." (PS "The 
Letters from No One" p.28 UK edition).

How long would it take a great lummox like Dudley to smash his cine 
camera? Or crash his aeroplane? No long I guess. Seriously though, it 
could have been early July. I think the fact remains that he was 
definitely not born "as the seventh month dies".