Dept of Mysteries Prophecies - Row 97=1997 potterplots

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 125483


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tinglinger" <tinglinger at y...> 
wrote:
 
> Geoff:
> I tend to agree with Steve that the row number has little or no 
> significance.
> But - and it's a significant but - from the Wizarding World's point 
> of view, the confrontation could have taken place any time after 
31st 
> July 1980. We know that Voldemort tried to achieve that outcome 
very 
> quickly and failed disastrously. At intervals, he has re-emerged in 
> one form or another to try to deal with his nemesis - and so far 
> still proving to be unsuccessful. So I believe that row 97 might be 
> another of JKR's red fish or possibly she just dropped on 97 as 
being 
> a nice sounding number to use.
> Time will tell.
> 
> Tinglinger/Samnanya:
> I wonder then why JKR even bothered with the whole deathday chapter 
in 
> COS and Nick's birthday cake. 1492 would be a lame date to use if 
not 
> for the link to 1992 when COS takes place. This is a possilbe link 
to 
> the row 97 discussed upthread. I just wonder why the details were 
even 
> given. Too many herrings can smell up a book. If I have learned 
> anything from this series, precious little written in the series 
has 
> proven to be irrelevant. I am certain even GRAWP will be useful 
> eventually.....  That said,

Geoff:
I'm still inclined to my view that 97 has no connection to the year. 
My view about the Deathday party is that, being the 500th 
anniversary, it obviously establishes the year as 1992.

>From that, we can confirm that Harry, now in the Second Year, entered 
Hogwarts in 1991 and was born in 1980. Although I think that Jo 
Rowling had revealed this in interviews etc., I think this is the 
first place in canon that Harry's year of birth is confirmed and, 
thus, dates relating to Hogwarts events.