A slight problem with 1983

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 186061

"capndad1" wrote:
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>  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.
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>   Harry's parents died in:
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> 1983. <snip>
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Carol responds:

According to my (American) edition of DH, Harry's parents died on October 31, 1981, which means that the chronology (Harry's birth in 1980 and his entry into Hogwarts in 1991 is correct.

The only problems I've found are Sir Nicholas's death date, which is first four hundred and then five hundred years before CoS (an inconsistency that I believe has been corrected in later editions) and James's age in the SWM and so-called Prank, which has to be sixteen, not fifteen (as stated repeatedly in OoP) given his birthdate, March 27, 1960. (Both dates are from "Godric's Hollow," DH Am ed. 328.)

Carol, wondering where capndad got the 1983 date