Dates and calendars - Sept 1 Always on Sunday.

[gregory_lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 97658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> 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

Or maybe it's neither a Flint nor Artistic License but a clue to life 
and everything?

Perhaps the days aren't changing because the *year* isn't changing.  
Perhaps they are living the same year over and over and over and over 
again until someone (presumably Harry) gets it (whatever it is) right.

There is, after all, a fairly significant time travel theme in the 
books, and a repetition theme as well.