Sept 1

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 127671


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynx412 at A... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/16/2005 12:53:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> steve at h... writes:
 
The Other Cheryl:
> If their calendar begins on a day they call 
> Sunday September 1, there is no reason that that day has to match 
up exactly 
> with the MW's September 1.
> 
>        Also, perhaps the WW has a reason for September 2 to always 
fall on a 
> Monday. Suppose the day they chose to break from the MW was Sunday 
September 
> 1, whenever. That day, including the day of the week, might well be 
the WW's 
> New Year's Day. It might even be calculated much like Easter, to 
always fall on 
> a specific Sunday.

Geoff:
The only problem with that might be where pupils, like Hermione or 
Colin, come from a Muggle background; non-corresponding dates could 
lead to confusion.

We do know that there is definitely a correlation between the real 
world and the wizarding world when Harry takes the Hogwarts Express 
for the first time on September 1, 1991, which was a Sunday.

I wonder if we're trying to read too much into this. Having got the 
day right for the first book, Jo Rowling may just not have looked at 
this particular aspect of things in subsequent books. 

One of my favourite books is "To serve them all my days" by 
R.F.Delderfield which is about a schoolmaster in the 1920s and 1930s 
and the author gets his knickers in a twist all through the book with 
information about dates and times. I just shrug my shoulders and 
battle on....