Seventh month Dudley

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 89671

Steve Vander Ark:

>>What is actually says is "his month-old cine-camera," which tells 
us that Dudley's birthday is about a month before Harry's. If we 
accept that Harry was born in 1980, Dudley's birthday would be June 
22. It is certainly right around that date.<<

Geoff:

>Sorry to disagree but my copy says "had already broken his /new/ 
cine-camera" (my emphasis).
 
(PS "The Letters from No One" p.28 UK edition)<

KathyK then says:

My copy says the same thing (well, actually mine says video camera 
as it's the US edition).  But not much further into the chapter, 
when Harry moves into Dudley's second bedroom there is this:

"The month-old video camera was lying on top of a small, working 
tank Dudley had once driven over the next door neightbor's dog"

(SS, US edition p. 37)

This was the first day Harry received a Hogwarts letter.  If you 
follow the sequence in the books, Harry gets his first letter a week 
before his eleventh birthday, meaning Dudley *is* about a month 
older than Harry and born not in July but in June.

KathyK