Dates and calendars - Sept 1 Always on Sunday.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 97614

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leaverish" <casieloo at b...> 
> wrote:
> > Tammy wrote: 
> > > How do you expect to reconcile literary astronomical 
> > > indicators to real world dates when, for five years 
> > > now, September first has been a Sunday?  Doesn't that 
> > > just scream out that JKR is not using a real world 
> > > calendar?  

> > ...edited...
> 
> Geoff:
> I didn't originally raise this point, but perhaps I will now. Where
> does the support for 01/09 having been a Sunday for five years come
> from?


bboy_mn;

Using my not very trustworthy memory, I will ask you recall that the
day of the week of the Hogwarts Express train ride is never specified,
but the first day of classes is always on a Monday, and that day
appears to always be the day after the train ride. 

If the train ride is Sept 1, and the day after is always Monday, then
logically, we have seen Sept 1 fall on a Sunday for every book.

I'm not so sure we could consider this a flint, it's probably more
like 'artistic license'. JKR starts the school year on a Monday so she
can lay out the pattern of classes for the entire week which provides
us with a framework and reference points, then later in the book, she
can simply refer to classes and we know where in the course of a
typical week we are.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn