![]() Confused yet? Well, Rowling herself confirmed in a tweet that 2017 was the year Harry and Ginny's son, Albus Severus, was about to start his first trip to Hogwarts 19 years after Harry left, making 1998 his seventh and final year. The books and films take place from 1991-1998 and between 2001-2008, respectively, though its easy to get confused, considering the final book was released in 2007 and the final film in 2011. But that book was released in June 1997 and its United States version, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, was released in 1998. Harry was born in 1980, making him 11 when he starts his first year at Hogwarts. If you've read the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, you'll notice it takes place in 1991. ![]() It wasn't clear at the time if or when the book would actually be published so she used her present time period. More specifically, the year 1890 seems the most likely, with that. She set the date for the books to match up with when she began writing them, which wound up being the same year as when the book series began, 1991. Hogwarts Legacy is set in the late 1800s, placing it before all the books, films and stage shows you may have already seen. But some newcomers to Harry Potter might wonder why the original Harry Potter books are set in one decade and the film franchise is set in another.ÄȘccording to her website, Rowling came up with the idea for the book series in 1990 while sitting on a delayed train. ![]()
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