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The lack of cell phones seems obvious at first but then you realize that wizards don't need them. I liked how Harry Potter could have taken place at almost any
by wildzzz 5y ago
The lack of cell phones seems obvious at first but then you realize that wizards don't need them. I liked how Harry Potter could have taken place at almost any point during the 20th century and beyond.
- randallsquared 5y agoThe story timelines largely predate the availability of cell phones, but Rowling was quite specific about when it is set, with exact dates mentioned for key points in the story: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Dating_conventions https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Dating_conventions
- aesthesia 5y agoNot quite: at one point there's a reference to a non-wizard character having a PlayStation, which I found kind of jarring to read at the time, precisely because it pinned the story down to a very particular point in time.
- Apocryphon 5y agoYeah, but it was a very minute throwaway line.
- Slow_Hand 5y agoI'm reminded of an excellent tweet from a while back: > Someone told me that Harry Potter is supposed to take place between 1991 and 1998 which is ridiculous because not once in seven books does a single character say, "Man the Chicago Bulls are having a hell of a run huh?".
- rjsw 5y agoThe books are set in a fantasy version of the UK, you would have been very unlikely to hear any reference to the Chigago Bulls during that time in real life.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThen surely someone would at least mention the Spice Girls