Bigotry in the Potterverse

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 188079

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rick H. Kennerly" <rhkennerly at ...> wrote:

Rick: (or at least I think it's Rick... somebody isn't attributing remarks where
the writer changes)
> Besides, there aren't very many time markers in the Muggleville timeline
> to place the stories even within a decade--The Ford Anglia is all I can
> think of off hand (produced 1959-1967). The other items: flush toilets,
> double-decker buses, TV, Radio all predate the Anglia.

Geoff:
There is more evidence. In "The Letters from no One" in "Philosopher's
Stone", Dudley gets a clip round the ear because he is trying to take his
computer.

Microcomputers really appeared on the market around 1978 and for
someone to have his or her own would be some years on. I can recall
my school in South London getting its first single computer in 1983
and that was too damned heavy to be carted around.

RIck:
> What decade do you think the books are set in?

Geoff:
Rowling has given clues for that. Nearly Headless Nick's 500th Death Day
was in Harry's second year when he was approaching 12. Since Nick's death
was in 1492, this took place in 1992, hence Harry was born in 1980.

So the action of the books takes place in the 1990s.
QED.