A slight problem with 1983

[capndad1]

No: HPFGUIDX 186053

 I've noticed a slight...difficulty...with the date of Harry's parents deaths, something only our favorite brown-haired young lady might notice. I haven't found any mention of it in past posts, and fervently hope this is not one of those "anomalies-not-to-be-named" that one sometimes finds in groups like this. If it is I have no problem ignoring it, and apologize for bringing it up.

  Harry's parents died in:

1983.

  This makes Harry one year old at that time. Add ten years to that date and we find Harry is eleven years old and starting Hogwarts in:

1993.

  Since this whole thing wrapped up in what would have been Harry's seventh and last year at Hogwarts, adding seven years to that date brings us to:

2000.

  That means that in 2009 we are only about halfway through the 19 year interval before the epilogue.

  Personally, I think it would have been much much nicer to have made the original date of Voldemorts' attack 1973, and thus finished the whole story this year.

  Opinions?

capndad1