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 Posted: January 27, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: JKR loses track of time... |
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I just realised this yesterday.
Harry wakes up, because his scar is hurting and he just had a dream of Voldemort killing Frank the oldie. Well, he then writes a letter to Sirius. In the letter, he says that Dudley had chucked his Playstation out of the window. The question is:
How did Dudley get a Playstation?!
This letter is in the summer holiday, so it is about July-August 1994.
The playstation was released in December 1994.
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so, i don't blame her for not looking up the history of gaming consoles
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maybe it was a magic console 
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His console! He had a console, he is still so annoying to me!
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| she never looked up when the playstation was released, and just included the most famous console. |
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Knowing Dudley, he probably forced his father to some how pull some strings, pay a billion dollars, and get him a Playstation a long time before it was released. Yes, everything can be explained away in my mind.
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Dudley is such a spoilt pig, I'm going to burn him.
*gets out wand*
"Hehe!"
ATTENTION: This has ended.
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| Boggart - wrote: |
| she never looked up when the playstation was released, and just included the most famous console. |
She probably just remembered it being popular around that time. She didn't think to look up it's exact release date, because it never occured to her that she'd be off by a couple of months. Her editors didn't notice it, either.
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i dont really think it makes a difference. Harry was born in 1980, (im pretty sure) she wrote it sometime in the 1990s.
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| Dirty_Blood_Princess wrote: |
| i dont really think it makes a difference. Harry was born in 1980, (im pretty sure) she wrote it sometime in the 1990s. |
He was definitely born in 1980 and yeah, she wrote it in the 90's...
I all theacts aren't perfect, then I can look past it as long as the inconsistancies don't ruin the story, which it didn't.
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| zengrenouille wrote: |
| Knowing Dudley, he probably forced his father to some how pull some strings, pay a billion dollars, and get him a Playstation a long time before it was released. Yes, everything can be explained away in my mind. |
I thought that too! Kind of like in the movie The Devil Wears Prada where the assistant gets copies of a yet to be released Harry Potter book for the boss's daughters  I can't remember which book it was. |
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| zengrenouille wrote: |
| Knowing Dudley, he probably forced his father to some how pull some strings, pay a billion dollars, and get him a Playstation a long time before it was released. Yes, everything can be explained away in my mind. |
I thought that too! Kind of like in the movie The Devil Wears Prada where the assistant gets copies of a yet to be released Harry Potter book for the boss's daughters I can't remember which book it was. |
In the The Devil Wears Prada book it is unknown, but I believe the book came out just before HBP, so when you read the book you are supposed to think it was that one the characters are referring to. In the movie it was supposed to be the Seventh book, DH. When the movie The Devil Wears Prada was being filmed, the seventh title was still unknown to us, possibly even JKR. In the movie they only referred to it as "the next book" but on the train you can see the twins holding the binded manuscripts and they have the number seven on it.
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| so, i don't blame her for not looking up the history of gaming consoles |
yeah who cares about that stupid play station...it's about harry potter,not about dudley's play station....duh
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| This is what happened: JK originally intended the story to take place in our timeframe, instead of exactly a decade earlier, what would be the point of that? However, the sole piece of information from which we derive the timeline (before the release of Book 7) is Nick's Deathday cake, which reads the date 31 October 1492. I reckon she just picked 1492 without really thinking about it because it seemed like a profound date; Columbus crossed the Atlantic this year. However, her fans thought about this more, and deduced that, since it was Nick's 500th, the year must have been 1992, and Harry had entered his second year, which meant that Book 4 would begin in summer 1994. But this was only really discussed after JK had written the transcript for this book, thinking it would take place in our modern time line; by that point she'd probably forgotten that she'd ever written 1492 on Nick's cake. |
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| habs4life9 wrote: |
| This is what happened: JK originally intended the story to take place in our timeframe, instead of exactly a decade earlier, what would be the point of that? However, the sole piece of information from which we derive the timeline (before the release of Book 7) is Nick's Deathday cake, which reads the date 31 October 1492. I reckon she just picked 1492 without really thinking about it because it seemed like a profound date; Columbus crossed the Atlantic this year. However, her fans thought about this more, and deduced that, since it was Nick's 500th, the year must have been 1992, and Harry had entered his second year, which meant that Book 4 would begin in summer 1994. But this was only really discussed after JK had written the transcript for this book, thinking it would take place in our modern time line; by that point she'd probably forgotten that she'd ever written 1492 on Nick's cake. |
Actually, JKR started wriitng the story in 1991, so she kept that year as the year Harry entered Hogwarts. All other years come off of that. She chose 1991, first.... 1492 came after.
You can figure out the year using Nicik's deathdate... but 1991 came first.
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| You can NOT do that with a console, that's a fact. |
Just so you know the ps1 was only released in Japan on December of 1994, not the U.k. 
Also, there are plenty of ways to get the system before it is released such as beta testing or being close with someone on the inside.
Release dates:
Japan - December 3, 1994.
North America - Semptember 9, 1995.
Europe - Semptember 29, 1995.
The only way I could see it is Dudley's father having to import a beta tested system. That could be a reason why it was "chucked out the window". What if he had gotten mad because of the bugs and threw it out of the window.
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I dont think JKR really cares
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i dont know why everybody try to find mistakes JKR.
stopped what are you doing!!
i think its better for us to respect JKR as much as she are very amazing writer.
i'm sorry to say this..
everybody's not perfect!! |
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I really couldn't care less about mistakes such as these. They are insignificant and Jo is a brilliant writer despite all those who pick and prod about things like the history of a Playstation.
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Dudley could have saw a 'coming soon' ad on tv for it and whinged so much that his dad managed to get like a prototype or get one in early
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If you ask me she just didn't look it up. *shrug*
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