[HPforGrownups] Re: Dept of Mysteries Prophecies - Row 97=1997 potterplots

[theotokos]

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> 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. 


Geoff:
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.


 
This may be lame but as she always reminds us that she is writing for children. . .the first thing I think of when I hear 1492 is the school rhyme "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue."  She could be giving a visual or a time line for kids reading the books to put Nick in context?  I am from America and as we insist on continuing to believe the myth of Columbus discovering America, this is one of those rote lessons hammered in our heads.  I don't know if Columbus is even focused on in European or British schools.  Is he?
 
Theotokos

 


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