Timeline for DH

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 177500

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alison" <madammilliemarsh at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol wrote :
> 
> > Actually, there's canon for the approximate marriage date as well.
> > Voldemort tells Bellatrix during the DE meeting in chapter 1 that
> > the "happy event" occurred "this week" (DH Am. ed. 9) and Snape
> > says that Harry will be removed from 4 Privet Drive on "Saturday
> > next" (3). "Saturday next," which can only be a few days away
> > unless the phrase means "a week from this coming Saturday," turns
> > out to be four days before July 31 (Harry's seventeenth birthday),
> > which means that it's July 27.
> 
> Alison :
> 
> "A week from this coming Saturday," is what I would
> interpret it to mean. If it were the coming Saturday, it seems more
> likely that it would be expressed as exactly that or perhaps "this
> Saturday". So I would take the meeting to have occurred between 1-2
> weeks prior to 27 July.
> 
> 
> Carol also wrote :
> 
> >So if the meeting occurs on, say, Wednesday (it can't be
> > Monday as the wedding has occurred the same week), that date would
> > be July 24 and the wedding date would be around July 22. Obviously,
> > we can't be that exact, but it seems that the Lupins were married
> > in mid- to late July.
> 
> Alison responds :
> 
> You know, I never thought about interpreting the "this week" that
> way, I had thought simply that it occurred in the last seven days.
> But I agree your interpretation makes much more sense. So I would
> also agree that the meeting most likely took place on either
> Wednesday or Thursday. (If it were a Friday, then I would expect
> Snape to refer to the date Harry is moved as tomorrow week).
> 
> So I would bring your dates forward to be one week earlier, putting
> the wedding on 15 or 16 July. But I agree there is probably still
> some margin for error up to a week either way, depending on exactly
> how those two phrases are interpreted.
> 
> 
>      Alison (madammilliemarsh)

Sue:

Whichever interpretation we give, it's still pretty damned narrow, and I figured nine 
months from marriage to announcement at Shell Cottage, which suggests, going by the 
fact that it's only a few days after Bill and Fleur's wedding that Lupin tells the trio Tonks is 
pregnant, that wizarding women must know very early! :-)
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