Dates and calendars - Sept 1 Always on Sunday.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 97668

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

Gregory Lynn:
> 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.

Geoff:
Yes, but if they are living the same year over and over again, the 
same things would happen again and again, perhaps with tiny changes.

It reminds me of the Star Trek: Next Generation episode "Cause and 
Effect" when the Enterprise gets caught in a causality time loop and 
repeats the same actions. The crew are vaguely aware of "deja vu" and 
manage to break the loop using Data's memory but the events are very 
close to a repeat each time.

Since a completely different set of events happen each year, it can't 
be a rerun.