Timing of the prophecy
amanitamuscaria1
saraandra at saraandra.plus.com
Wed Nov 10 12:32:18 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 117535
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...>
wrote:
>
>
> > Del replies :
> > A last piece of info if you want it : in his after-disaster
speech,
> DD
> > says :
> >
> > 'Sybill's prophecy could have applied to two wizard boys, both
born
> at
> > the end of July that year'
> >
>
> Neri:
>
> Good catch, Del. This "that year" indeed seems to imply that the
> prophecy was given in 1980. But I'm still not convinced.
> Trelawney's "nearly sixteen years" (said in September 1985) seems
> more specific in time than DD's "cold wet night sixteen years ago"
> (said in June 1986). The "cold and wet" also implies winter or
> autumn.>snip<
> Neri
AmanitaMuscaria now -
Neri - In the U.K., we can very easily get "cold wet nights" - nay,
we get cold wet days in the middle of 'summer'. I don't think that's
the seasonal hint you're taking it for. However, we won't know until
she tells us, so theorise away!
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria
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