[HPforGrownups] Re: The Real HP for GrownUps

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 173731

anne_t_squires <tfaucette6387 at charter.net>  wrote:                                 
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 > clcb58 here:
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 > Also, has anyone else realized that nineteen years after the end of
 > the story is 2007?

 Anne Squires:
 
>I'm afraid you're off by ten years.  At least that's the way I
 >calculate things.  Somebody correct if you think I'm wrong.
 
 >In CoS NHN celebrates his 500th deathday in October of that school
 >year. NHN died in 1492.  1492 + 500 = 1992.  Therefore book seven ends
 >in 1998.  1998 + 19 = 2017  That's my calculation at any rate.  I
 >admit I could be mistaken; but that's the way a see the time line.
 
I calculated from a different angle but also got 2017.  So, for anyone who wants to look at it differently:

Their tombstones tell us that James and Lily died October 31, 1981; Harry would have been 15 months old.  So, Harry was born July 31, 1980.  Therefore, Harry's 11th birthday would have been July 31, 1991 and he started Hogwarts that year.  So, his seventh year, had he returned, would have begun September 1997.  So, the Battle at the end of DH takes place in 1998.  Nineteen years later would be 2017.  Specifically, the epilogue took place on September 1 (the day students traditionally board the Hogwarts Express for school), 2017.

Christy