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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