JKR Brought it Upon Herself

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> Alla:
> >  You mean every time poor author mentions **one** date in the 
series, 
> > that means the book is dependent on dates?
> 
> Bart:
> Pretty much so. And she has nobody to blame but herself.
> 
> She's the one who decided to be super clever, and make tiny points 
major 
> clues. She's the one who even put patterns in the book where the 
chapter 
> numbers were significant. She's the one who encouraged readers to 
> examine the books with magnifying glasses, to say how carefully 
she 
> worded things. So, yes, when she screws up and contradicts 
herself, she 
> has herself to blame when the readers are angry.


Alla:

What in the plot of the books depends on dates? What exactly depends 
on Nick's birthday?

What major or minor plot revelations depend on it?

You want to pick up dates and birthday inconsistencies, well, that's 
your right.

I myself will never ever understand how that make the story flows 
worse.

That's me. People keep talking about Dumbledore and Antie Muriel and 
I keep scratching my head - what in the story does not feel right 
because of it? Does it take away from Dumbledore horrible past?

It just does not matter for me in the slightest. I do not care.

I believe that demanding from the author who honestly confessed that 
she is bad at maths to maintain every birthday in consistency with 
every other is demand a bit much. People want to held JKR to this 
standard - as I said, it is their right, but as person bad with 
maths as well, I would never understand  why.

As I said, I read plenty stories with messed up timelines. I still 
consider them excellent stories. My opinion of course.

Random:
<SNIP>
And, that a contemporary date is mentioned does not mean that the 
series
"depends" on having a coherent timeline for all past events, some 
more
than a century ago. Not a single birthdate is mentioned (even 
Harry's is
only implicit) EVER. Apart from the month and approximate time of 
month
of Harry's, and arguably the timing of Hermione's relative to her
year-mates, no-one's birthdate is the least bit important to the 
plot.
Hell, the relative ages of anyone older than Harry never has any
significance, yet everyone keeps picking and picking at the 
Bill/Charlie
age thing, Molly not remembering Hagrid, etc - But we don't get any
important plot revelations based on the number of years that passed
between Charlie's birth and Percy's, or a bit of information that 
Molly
remembers from before Hagrid was hired, or anything like that. It's
simply NOT RELEVANT.


Alla:

Oh I so agree with every word.