Harry Potter and the flywheel time: how the timeline of the world of magic and sorcery

For about twenty years potteromany exploring the magical world history with the same meticulousness with which scientists investigate the real historical facts. JK Rowling has created an eventful universe, but "Fantastic creature" loosen it all the more orderly system.

Layfhaker understands what is wrong with the chronology of why fans are outraged, and whether it is important to really follow the same canon in a long series and franchises.

How did the chronology of "Harry Potter"

Fans of any fictional universe adore build timelines. Even if the author is sparing of details and dates reluctantly shares, Community fans will always find an opportunity to make a detailed chronology. This makes the fictional world tangible and visible. Moreover, in the detection of binding to the time and event correlation is a special detective pleasure.

The story of Harry Potter gradually acquires details. At the beginning of the first book of a series of time steps it does not say anything definite. However, in the second part mentions that Nearly Headless Nick, the Gryffindor ghost faculty, today marks the five hundredth day of his death, and his unfortunate beheading happened in 1492.

So, book events take place in 1992-1993, and Harry went to Hogwarts in 1991. Knowing his age, we can conclude that he was born in 1980, like most of his classmates.

Along with the growth of the universe was going to more and more details and dates by which the history of the characters became more volume. More help and the fact that books the "Harry Potter" set of clues calendar: each of them can accommodate one academic year, and it is constantly referred to the holidays, such as Christmas holidays. Written by Rowling bonus books ( "Quidditch Through the Ages", "Fantastic Beasts and Where they live") and complementary novels.

Stories of famous fairy magical delivery and institutions go to the distant past, interfering with events Muggle world. For example, it is known that the members of the family began to make Ollivander wands back in 382 BC. E., And Hogwarts was founded at the end of X - beginning of XI century.

Armed with data potteromany took up calculators, draw up a detailed timeline, which can be acquainted with the siteEvents and Timelines fan encyclopedia Harry Potter Lexicon, where there is some history to the events, locations and characters.

In 2011, there was a site Pottermore - the canonical source of information, which oversees personally JK Rowling. Resource name is very accurately expresses the main The fan desire - to get more "Harry Potter" to find out the details and not to leave world of Witchcraft and magic, even when read out of the book to the holes. The site has become an additional source of valuable information on dates.

As the timeline is broken in the books

Despite the fact that the wave of indignation rose after the release of "Crimes Green de Wald", some problems with the timing and were in the books. The most meticulous reader will find some small bugs that appear here and there, introducing confusion into a coherent, lovingly built their system.

Somewhere inconsistencies can be attributed to the "unreliable narrator" - in the end, the characters may be wrong. And somewhere to get out does not go, because the logic violates the author himself. According toAnelli, Melissa and Emerson Spartz. "The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling: Part Two," The Leaky Cauldron, 16 July 2005 JK Rowling, mathematics - not the strongest side of it.

For example, in the Harry Potter books, the corresponding days of the week often do not coincide with the actual calendar dates. Muggle Dursley quiet life is destroyed in "a dull and gray Tuesday", although in 1981 November 1 fell on a Sunday. On Sunday I come and Dudley's birthday June 23, 1991, but the text of the book is a Saturday (the day Harry spoke with a snake in a zoo).

A September 1, 1993 was a full moon, so this evening, Professor Lupine could hardly easy to go by train and participate in the welcoming feast. He should have come to Hogwarts in advance, to the eyeballs to pump potion of aconite and some time not to appear to people in the eye.

A curious case came with a PlayStation, a which Dudley, offended by their parents, thrown out the window in 1994, while the release of the console in Europe took place only in September 1995. One theory is that the Dursleys have ordered the prefix for the spoiled son directly from Japan, the other - that Harry, talking about it, just made a mistake. although the Rowling recognizedHarry Potter Wiki: PlayStationThat is simply not too versed in the consoles.

All these errors with dates can be solved by a simple assumption - the universe of Harry Potter is a little different from ours. The main thing that it was consistent. Minor violations of logic, and typographical errors that nothing on impact, have been correctedDifferences and Changes in the Text in later editions of books. However, sometimes a fictional world internal contradictions occur which complicate the interaction history between the elements themselves.

For example, it is known that Hagrid got forester Hogwarts shortly after having been expelled from there. He was born in the late 1920s and studied at the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the same time as Tom Riddle - it is the future dark magician accused Hagrid that he opened the Chamber of Secrets.

Nevertheless, Molly Weasley, who is younger than both, remembers another forester, who held the post during her study at Hogwarts - Ogg. Perhaps Hagrid just helped him and they worked together, but there is no confirmation of this canonicity.

Also in the "Goblet of Fire" states that Severus Snape Bellatrix Lestrange and intersect at Hogwarts in the study years. However, the data obtained on the basis of books and other materials, Bella over Snape's for 9 years. So that the future ardent follower of the Dark Lord had to leave school before Snape arrived. Unless, of course, it has not been systematically vtorogodnitsey.

By the way, about school fanfikshena friendship Snape and Lucius Malfoy, too, there is no historical reason - apparently, they met much later. Lucius was older than Snape and the Marauders Gryffindor Quartet of at least 6 years, and when they arrived at Hogwarts, ready for release.

As the timeline is broken in the movies

screen version confused chronology. For a while it seemed that the duration of films is different from the book. On the screen appeared increasingly anachronistic, hinting at a shift of the events to come.

To see this, just look at the style of the characters. Wizards its magical fashionOdezhda_volshebnikovBut younger generations do not adhere to it and outside the school dressed in Muggle clothing. These images do not have to take specific style of 90's - things are more like movies of the time of creation.

For example, she wears short form-fitting denim jacket, and masculine silhouettes are not too bulky, as expected in the zero. Three in the tournament wizards Fleur Delacour appeared in a track suit like those that then set a fashion pop stars - except that color was in sharmbatonski restrained rather than bright pink.

In some urban scenes appear model cars released only after 2000. Also in London can be seen buildings and objects, which in the 90s was not yet - Ferris wheel "London Eye" on the banks of the Thames, skyscraper Mary Ax, nicknamed "cucumber" and the Millennium Bridge.

Despite all these references to null when in the film Harry Potter visits the graves of his parents at Godric's Hollow, in the frame fall tombstones with respective timings of books dates. According to the latest, Lily and James Potter died in 1981, as well as the chronology suggests the world of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Thus, in kinovselennoy time coincides with the book. For example, the film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" takes place from 1991 to 1992. Events painting "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" occur from 1997 to 1998. So anachronisms only artistic convention can be attributed to the movies.

Further more. Franchise "Fantastic creature" allowed several major violations of the timeline, which is considered canonical. In the first film, none of the familiar characters does not appear so, existing as a separate story, minds Pottermania he was confused. However, with the second film ( "Crimes Green de Wald") increasingly difficult.

Its action takes place in 1927, when a book was published about the magical creatures under the authorship of Newt Scamander (in Russian localization character called Salamander, but many believe this translation almost as clumsy as "Zloteus Snape" and "Sverkarol Charuald" Maria Spivak).

However, on the screen appears briefly, Professor McGonagall, who in 1927 have not yet been born. This violation of canonical biography of heroine and other errors of the film, we have detailed told.

Creedence here also called the brother of Dumbledore, though, given the history of his family, his parents Albus I could not be born a child who at the time of the action "Crimes Green de Wald" would be such age.

Faith in the timeline makes Pottermania assume that Green de Wald just lying on the origin of Creedence, however, may not be as important for the chronology of the film makers. If he really the brother of Dumbledore, the timeline of the world "Fantastic creatures" must be different from that adopted.

Do I have to be boring

Faced with inconsistencies, fans are trying to fix deflating canon. For example, assuming that McGonagall, who appears in the movie - this mother of Minerva. True, it pierces a hole in the logic of the other, because the name was Isabel, and McGonagall in "Crimes Green de Wald" was listed in the credits just like Minerva McGonagall. In addition, it never mentionedIsobel McGonagall about her teaching at Hogwarts.

One theory about why Green de Wald calls Creedence brother Albus, is that entrenched in it pinhole (clot dark magical energy) previously belonged to Ariana Dumbledore's sister. Far-fetched? Perhaps, but what not to do for the sake of logic. However, this does not explain why it Grindelwald named Creedence Aurelius.

Patching up plot holes through the explanation inside the story psychologically important because otherwise the world, which occupies in the life of the fans is a great place, it begins to crack at the seams. A work that professional potterovedy spent many years of plotting and creation of the online encyclopedia, is impaired. Often, however, we are talking about common mistakes that are inevitable for a series of books, which he wrote for many years, and adaptations created by different directors.

Sometimes just a chronological credibility is sacrificed to short-term needs of the scenario. By the will of Rowling's much magic in the world of magic and reinterpreted retroactively. For example, in the play "Harry Potter and the cursed child", which very few people came to taste, it turns out that shortly before his death, Bellatrix Lestrange gave birth to daughterDelphi by Lord Voldemort.

It is unclear when she could do it, if all the last part of the saga was in the corset, throwing unforgivable curse. About their relationship beyond vassalage, first mentions was not. And the appearance of the Dark Lord casts doubt on its ability to become a father in the traditional sense. One explanation - dark magic.

But whether so zealous to detail? Perhaps the outrage over the logic errors due precisely to the fact that the world of "Harry Potter" to recently it remained relatively consistent, and now fans are ready to find fault with any trivia. Although large-scale projects with a long history of the multiverse - are not uncommon. A "Harry Potter" - it has long been not just a book, but also film, theater and series games.

What will happen with "Harry Potter" in the future

Franchises often restart, ignoring past events and creating a new universe based on the original story. One of Peter Parker, three only in the movies, not to mention the cartoons. In the comics restarts occur regularly.

Sometimes authors simply do not know what to do with the character, and want perepridumat it in a more successful version. However, if the comics were not updated at all, the story of the same characters was impossible to produce for decades.

Perhaps for some it will be stressful, but the film about the world of magic and magic will not be an exception. Not so long ago, Daniel Radcliffe mentionedDaniel Radcliffe Thinks Harry Potter Will Get a TV or Movie Reboot Eventually in an interview, it is unlikely that will be the last Harry Potter. According to the actor, reboot is inevitable - in the form of movies or TV series. And he himself would have been interesting to see a different version. Of course, while this assumption, however, appear on the screen new "Harry Potter" is really only a matter of time.

Will it then so important single canon timeline? Perhaps in the restart will take action in our time, to see how the magic is adjacent to the digital technology. Or, conversely, pushed back in the overall masskulturnoy obsessions 80-m and 90-m.

Fans jealously watch over the consistency and revered source material (the word "canon" refers to the sacred texts). Rare screenwriter commercial project work devotes so much time and effort, many enthusiastic geek - the study of the beloved universe.

At the same time, any cultural phenomenon for the development of freedom is necessary. Sometimes changes in the chronology helps move the story forward, update it and add details. The main thing that innovation really opened up new possibilities, not leaving out shoots guns and ways to screw disposable fanservis.