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

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142787

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mercurybluesmng"
<MercuryBlue144 at a...> wrote:
>
> So I goofed about the Playstation. I don't generally do Playstation.
> But there are honest-to-god this-doesn't-match-the-calendar dates in
> the series, prominent among them being September 2nd is always a
> Monday, Nov 1 1981 was not a Tuesday and Nov 5 (Bonfire Night) is
not
> 'next week' from then, and if the Nimbus 2001 came out in August
1992,
> the Nimbus 2000 must have been somewhat more than a year earlier,
but
> there is no mention of it in Quidditch Through the Ages. Which does
> mention the Twigger 90, which came out in 1990 and at the date of
> publication had already acquired a reputation for being flown by
> wizards with more money than sense. My point remains.

the only problem that JKR has is the what day it falls in the week -
that isn't a timeline issue. So, I guess I am not understanding why
you think that we don't know what years the HP series take place
in. I think it is pretty much canon, based on Rowling's statements
and mugglenet's timeline. We know it takes place from 1991 thru 1997
with the 7th book in 1997/1998. Personally, I don't get picky if
Sept 1st always falls on a monday every year. That is called
creative license, or in this case, WW's license :)

>
> And I was thinking seventeen-year-old boys were the target audience
> for Star Wars.

not really in America. I can't speak for other countries, but it was
not cool in the US during the original trilogy to see Star
Wars as an older teen(back during the dark ages of 1977 thru 1983). I
think it has become acceptable now, however. But back then, nope -
only really die-hard fans in that age range went. The *cool* crowd 
didn't.

colebiancardi.
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