JKR web site update (spoiler alert)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113754

I (Carol) wrote:
> "I thought it was interesting that JKR referred to Nearly Headless
Nick as being from the Elizabethan era, which fits with the ruff he
wears in one of the books but does not fit at all with a 1492 death
date. In SS/PS he says he hasn't eaten for *400* years, but in CoS we
have his *500th* death day (Halloween 1992 if we accept the Lexicon
chronology). Clearly If Nick is intended to be an Elizabethan, SS/PS
is right and he died in 1592, not 1492. Elizabeth reigned from
1558-1603. Her grandfather, the usurper Sylvia and I do not name
(okay, Henry Tudor, aka Henry VII--forgive me, Sylvia and RIII!) was
king in 1492. (He was very adept at chopping off heads, or his
executioners were, and they would not have botched NHN's execution.>
But another scrapbook item shows that neither the Tudor nor his famous
granddaughter had anything to do with the matter.)"
> 
> DuffyPoo responded:
> In my newer edition of PS (Canadian, published by Raincoast books in
2000) Nick says he hasn't eaten for nearly *500* years.  

Carol again:
Oh, no! And JKR still thinks Nick was an Elizabethan? ("Oh, dear!
Maths!" Also History!) But at least the inconsistency (400 vs. 500
years) is being ironed out, one way or another. I wonder if that
correction was her idea, or the Canadian editor's. Does it appear in
any other new editions? I guess no one bothered to tell JKR that men
(and women) in the early Tudor era (ca. 1492) didn't wear ruffs! That
error should be corrected, too, IMHO. (And, no, I don't accept the
idea that the WW was ahead of the RW in fashion. If anything, it's
still way behind the times. And Nick, it seems from the "song" on
JKR's website, was in contact with Muggles, and in fact executed by
them, so he probably dressed as they did as well.)

Carol

P.S. Sylvia, my response to your offlist answer to this post bounced!