W.A.F.F.L.E.S. (long)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142726

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mercurybluesmng"
<MercuryBlue144 at a...> wrote:
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> colebiancardi:
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> > so I guess timeturners DO work with going into the future then?
> > Argghh....I know, one liners aren't allowed, so I shall be
obvious
> > girl and state the HP books take place in the 1990's and LotR
movies
> > didn't come out until 2001.
> >
> > And I don't think Snape or Sirius are the type to see muggle
movies :)
>
>
>
> Actually, the HP books take place in some vague 'a few years ago',
as evidenced by the Playstation before there was Playstation and
other such details. And can't you just see Sirius and James watching
Star Wars?
>
> MercuryBlue
>


It isn't very vague - we do have timelines. Harry is born in 1980,
so all of the events from SS/PS to HBP is from July 1991 to June
1997. Way BEFORE 2001 and the release of Lord of the Rings as an
inspiration for Snape & Sirius to copy Aragorn's hair in the movie:)

And, cough, cough, Playstation was around in those ancient days 
:-) "The history of the Playstation begins in 1988 when Sony and
Nintendo were working together to develop the Super Disc.....In 1991,
Sony used a modified version of the Super Disk as part of their new
game console - the Sony Playstation. Research and development for
the PlayStation had began in 1990....Only two hundred models of the
first Playstation (that could play Super Nintendo game cartridges)
were manufactured by Sony. The original Playstation was designed as a
multi-media and multi-purpose entertainment unit. Besides being able
to play Super Nintendo games, the Playstation could play audio CDs
and could read CDs with computer and video information as well."

from: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_playstation.htm

Sirius & James might have been too old for Star Wars - they are my
brother's age and brother was at that too-kewl-for-sci-fi stage at 17
(1977) I wasn't - I was 12 :) but when Empire came out in 1980, I
almost missed it in the theaters because I was starting that stage
myself. By the time Jedi came out in 1983, I was back on the
bandwagon :)



colebiancardi
(who is glad that I am at an age where I don't care what other people
think about my hobbies)