Time frame of OOTP

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 130119

I read order of the phoenix in about six hours. I would imagine that 
most everyone on this list and probably read the story in a pretty 
short period of time as well. I think because of that a lot of us 
are forgetting just how long a period of time the book covers.  One 
year. Have you ever been ignored for a year? Have you ever been left 
out of something that involved you for a year?  Have you had a 
person you hated violate your thoughts and your personal space for 
months at a time? Have you had a person in a authority make it their 
personal mission to get you fired or expelled? Have you have 
pratically your only outlet taken away from you?  Have you even been 
thought of as a liar by all of your peers and society?  Have you 
ever had the same dream for a year?  A year is a long time.  For 
Harry, I think it must have been forever.

Think about that when your letting Dumbledore off the hook for his 
neglect, when your writing about how Snape's lessons in mind 
violation was doing the best he could, when Harry rushed to his 
grandfathers aid, thankful that he finally could at least *do* 
something instead of sit like a mushroom.  Like he had for a year.

A year can be a very long time.

Phoenixgod2000, whose been thinking a lot about time lately because 
his birthday was yesterday.(Are they supposed to be this depressing 
when you aren't even thirty?)