Ég held að Rowling hafi viðurkennt að það höfðu verið mistök af hennar hálfu, en hérna er eitthvað sem réttlætir þetta:
Dudley's PlayStation
In book four, Harry tells Sirius that his cousin threw his Playstation out the window. Sony released the first Playstation in December of 1994, and that was in Japan. If we accept the timeline derived from the Deathday Party cake, Harry is telling Sirius about this incident in July of 1994, a half-year earlier. Is it impossible, then, for Dudley to have a Playstation if we accept that timeline?
There are two ways to answer that question. One way to look at it is that this isn't our reality, so the Playstation could have been released whenever Rowling wanted it to be. You could say that since Dudley obviously did have a Playstation in July, 1994, the Playstation must have been released earlier than December of 1994 in Rowling's invented reality.
The other way of looking at it assumes that the dates of the Playstation's release was in fact December of 1994 in the Potter universe, since that's what it was in ours. Then is it still possible for Dudley to have one? The answer to that, actually, is yes. Here's what Shaun Hately wrote in HPfGU:
The Playstation was first available for regular import into the UK in around December 1994 - exact date is hard to pin down. Limited numbers of machines were certainly being imported for games development purposes before June 1994 - I've no idea how much before - and some of these did get into the hands of private citizens if they were willing to pay the money.
That comes from looking through old messages from a computer and video games e-mail list I was on at the time, which had a significant UK membership. I had to search for the disks I had messages archived on (and now I have a huge desire to replay Eye of the Beholder).
Another bit of modern technology which exists in the Dursley home is a “wide-screen television.” It's in the kitchen, of all places. I don't know when wide screen televisions became available, but it doesn't seem like it was that many years ago. Perhaps this wide-screen refers only to a particularly large set, what we in the US might call a “big-screen TV,” not a true wide-screen.
En þetta stendur á
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/timelines/essays/timeline-facts.htmlSömu síðu og ég setti upp áður :)
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