What Next for Harry?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 176736

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "salo.krano" <salo.krano at ...> wrote:
>
> According to chapter seventeen of The Deathly Hallows (Bathilda's
> Secret), we know that James & Lilly Potter died on the 31st October
> 1981.
> 
> Eleven years later Harry started attending Hogwarts.
> 
> A quick calculation would therefore indicate that the Deathly Hallows
> is set in the year 1999.
> 
> J.K. Rowling ends the Deathly Hallows 19 years later with Harry's
> children James and Albus going off to Hogwarts, this being Albus'
> first term.
> 
> 1999 plus 19 would make that year 2018, this would indicate that
> James was born last year; and Albus this year.
> 
> Is it possible that JK might write an eighth book set sometime during
> these nineteen years?
> 
> I for one would like to know what happened to him after defeating the
> Dark Lord.

Geoff:
I'm sorry to fault your Maths but Harry was born on 31st July 1980. He 
was 15 months old when his parents were killed. Therefore, he turned 
eleven on 31/07/91.

Hence, he started at Hogwarts in September 1991 and would have 
entered the Upper Sixth in September 1997. So, the action of DH 
takes place during the academic year 1997/98.

JKR has intimated on several occasions that she does not intend to write 
another book except for the Encyclopaedia which has been mentioned.

Hopefully, we might get some decent fanfic to fill in the gap......