Another dumb question--Halloween?

amiabledorsai amiabledorsai at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 25 20:15:21 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 128055


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phyllis" <poppytheelf at h...> wrote:
> 
> Amiable Dorsai wrote:
>  
> > The HP Lexicon has it that James and Lily Potter were killed on
> > October 31.  That's barely possible, given that the story in book
> >one begins on Tuesday, and we find out that Guy Fawkes Day 
> >(November 5) is"next week"...
 

> ...Actually, it can't be. If November 1 is on a Tuesday, November 5 
> will be the Saturday of that same week. Jim is a bit addled from all
> the owls and shooting starts, perhaps."

<LOL> I figure it can be if Tuesday is Halloween, and Voldy attacked
just after midnight.  Stretching things, a bit, I suppose.

Thanks for the reference, I'd missed that detail of Harry's
conversation with Hagrid.  

Amiable Dorsai







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