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Jun 20, 2014 at 19:38 history edited alexwlchan CC BY-SA 3.0
Rewrote section on maths and dating; tweaked wording to reflect the order of reading rather than the order I wrote them in
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Jun 10, 2014 at 7:42 history edited alexwlchan CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 9, 2014 at 23:48 comment added user16696 @Mallow the wizard world is a pocket of the muggle world. Wizard Government works closely with Muggle Government. Cultures overlap a lot. No reason they (UK wizards) would have a different calendar. Now an Islamic wizard community...
Jun 9, 2014 at 23:35 comment added alexwlchan @Mallow: I’ve answered a question about whether the magical community uses the same calendar as the Muggles before (spoiler: they probably do). scifi.stackexchange.com/q/55020/3567
Jun 9, 2014 at 23:34 comment added alexwlchan @cde If you’re referring to the Priori Incantatem incident, I felt it deserved inclusion because it was widely discussed on sites like ours following the initial publication. Although it was fixed, it’s still a prominent example of this sort of discrepancy.
Jun 9, 2014 at 23:31 comment added user16696 Can we consider a mistake, later fixed (not just retconned), be considered "breaking canon"?
Jun 9, 2014 at 21:25 comment added Mallow Maybe they are using a wizard's calendar, where the first of september is actually the seventh month instead of the ninth. Why would June July or August affect wizards, Augustus was a Roman Emperor not a Wizard's!?
Jun 9, 2014 at 16:05 comment added Zibbobz The classrooms at least we can forgive. With all the things that move about, staircases that shift from floor to floor, rooms that can be practically anything, to say nothing of hidden passages, it's a wonder Hogwarts students make it to their class at all!
Jun 9, 2014 at 15:53 comment added CandiedMango @AnthonyGrist In the fourth book apparently they are waiting Sunday evening to go back to hogwarts the next day they are on the express then the next day it shows Ron looking at his timetable checking his lessons for the Monday column. I need to check this thus the "apparently" but it's between pages 168 and 213 of the british edition. Where page 213 features the scene with Ron.
Jun 9, 2014 at 15:46 comment added Anthony Grist Well, term always starts on the 1st of September and they always have lessons the next day, which doesn't really match up. That simply wouldn't happen in the six years Harry was there, because the 1st would land on a Friday or Saturday (so no classes the next day) at some point. It's possible the wording in some of the books is sufficiently vague to allow for a favourable interpretation, somebody would have to check them.
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Jun 9, 2014 at 15:39 comment added CandiedMango I'm not sure whether we do I just remember it on this site at some point I shall have to try and dig it up. I don't think it was stated explicitly but someone probably worked it out from other dates.
Jun 9, 2014 at 15:36 comment added alexwlchan @Simon: Do we ever hear that the 1st falls consistently on a Monday? (Not doubting you; I just don’t remember this point.)
Jun 9, 2014 at 15:33 comment added CandiedMango I think the best "Date Example" would be that term starts every year on monday the 1st of september.
Jun 9, 2014 at 15:30 history answered alexwlchan CC BY-SA 3.0