[HPforGrownups] Re: COS musings

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 105445

At 09:59 10-07-04 +0000, Geoff Bannister wrote:
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chris" <claphamsubwarden at y...>
>wrote:
>
> > Chris:

<snip>

> >
> > 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.

<snip>

>Geoff:
>Doesn't make you a sad git at all, merely a seeker after truth! I
>found a similar discrepancy re Harry's 11th birthday. If you like to
>read my post 89687, you'll see how it's derived.

I am happy for that -- I spent quite a while finding and analysing all
the dating references in the books, the result of which work can be
found on the web:

<http://www.hogwarts-library.net/reference/Harry_Potter_timeline.html>

or

<http://www.hp-lexicon.org/timelines/timeline-mapping-tf.html>

It is quite a lengthy essay, I'm afraid ;-)

/Troels