Nobody goes to Beloit College to study math

[cedarlibrarian]

I usually love the Beloit College Mindset List, but this year it made me cross my eyes

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[heidi8]

I think they're using movie canon, which takes place ten years after the books do, if you look at the various newspapers in PS/SS and CoS (but which still have the deaths of the Riddles in 1946, not 1956 as would have been the case to make the CoS opening "50 years before" CoS.

In other words, book-canon is clear - Harry would've been the class of 2001 or 2002. Movie canon is a hodge podge of messiness anyway.

[cedarlibrarian]

I'm not buying that. It makes zero sense to not use the source material, and that would also assume that someone is paying close enough attention to the movies to note when they take place, but didn't pay close attention to the books. For a lot of books that are made into movies I could see why the person (people) putting this list together might have used movie canon, but not for HP.

[schmevil]

I don't think Quidditch is popular in Division III schools.

One of the great mysteries and/or injustices of life.

[cedarlibrarian]

I know, right? They're all so traditional. Basketball. Whatever.

[imaginarycircus]

I think they are talking about the fact that these kids were 7 and 8 when the books first came out and so in terms of publishing Harry could be a college sophomore and these kids think of him as their age more or less. But still you are so right.

[flutastic]

May I add that I LOVE that Hermione is two days older than me? She had to be a Virgo. :)

[cedarlibrarian]

Of course she did. What else could she possibly be?

I think the only other Aquarius in the book is Arthur Weasley, which makes sense. We're eccentric humanitarians. :)

[patchfire]

I just went and checked the list for the year I entered college, which was the first year that they did the list.

I disagreed with 75-90% of it. Which makes me wonder how accurate this thing really is for later years...