COS musings

[Chris]

No: HPFGUIDX 105372

leb2323:
 
"Does this mean that TR and LM were at school together?  Why 
does Lucius have them and what else can we expect to see?"

Cathy:

TR and LM couldn't possibly have been at Hogwarts together unless 
there IS a time shift involved.  In COS which is supposed to be, 
what, 1992, TR/LV would be about 65 given that it chamber was opened 
50 years before and Tom in the diary was about 15...in OotP, which 
would be 1995, LM is stated in the Daily Prophet as being 41.


Chris now:

Time is the one thing that does not seem to be constant through out 
the Harry Potter books and is something of great interest for me. 
Definite Time References in the Book put Harry being born in 1980, 
Lily/James' death in 1981 and Sir Nicolas' 500th Death Day(Harry's 
second year) as 1992(making Harry correctly 12.)

Being the sad git that I am I looked into days of said years. The 
first reference is in PS, that the 1st November 1981 is a Tuesday. 
Now working back from my birthday, (25/11/1982 - a Thursday), the 1st 
November 1981 was a Sunday. Now through most of the rest of the 
writing JKR studiously avoids naming specific days. 

The other problem was that (to me at least) term always started on a 
Monday yet the Hogwarts Express always left on the 1st September, and 
classes started the next day. So that obviously can not be true.

I think that it is safe to say that Lucius was never at school with 
Tom Riddle and that the embodiment of Lord Voldemort at the end of 
GoF is 67 less the 14 = 53, and given wizards seemingly longer life 
spans would place him still in the (latter) parts of prime condition.

This of course means that Hagrid is 64 at the end of OotP. Anyone 
else care to take over........?

Check out HP:Lexicon for the current best interpretation of the 
timeline.

Chris
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/merlin_legacy
(Incidently the whole investigation stemmed from my reference 
of "American Pie" being wathched by Harry in the summer after OoTP, 
which is 1995, yet "American Pie" was not released until 1999.)