The Potter's Deathly Halloween was Re: Could Deathly Hallows refer to Harry going beyond the veil

[Stacey Nunes-Ranchy]

No: HPFGUIDX 163318

 

> montims:
> well, that was when the Potters were AK'd...

> Jeremiah:
> Was is Halloween? I don't think it was... Where did you get Hallween 
from?

>Mercury Blue wrote:

Sorcerer's Stone. I want to say chapter five, but my copy is at home 
and I am not. It's when Hagrid is telling Harry about how James and 
Lily really died. He specifically says it's Halloween.

Stacey:

 

I only have my French edition handy and provided they aren't split
differently, it's Chapter 4.  I have to say that until I started rereading
the series (although this is the first time in French) I, too, had a hard
time remembering that it was on Halloween that the Potters met their
untimely death.  Truthfully, I would have expected some other mention of it
when Vernon Dursley is seeing all the caped people (like "..although they
did seem a bit old to be still participating in the Halloween thing") or on
the TV about the owls and shooting stars (like "Strange things have been
known to happen on this day but.").  I'm actually not sure if the shooting
stars and owls are meant to happen on the same day of the killing or, I
strongly suspect, the day after (which would be odd as well since, in France
at least, no one works on All Saints Day and Vernon was clearly at work).
Even if it were supposed to be the day after Halloween that the caped
people, owls and shooting stars take place, you would figure there would be
some mentioning of the oddness of these sights to the odd things that go on
around Halloween.  

 

So is it:

Halloween:  Murder at Godric's Hollow

Nov 1st: Owls, shooting stars, caped people

Sometime in the wee hours of Nov. 2nd: Harry delivered at the doorstep

 

This also raises some questions (at least for me) because as Hagrid tells
Dumbledore about getting Harry, it sounds to me as if Hagrid rescues Harry
from the rubble and immediately sets off for the Dursley's.  Can anyone set
me straight?

 

Thanks!

Stacey 

 



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