User blog comment:LilyLovegood/ The films do not take place during the 90's/@comment-70.242.125.177-20110415063627/@comment-76.197.15.149-20130327044133

What I like to think of it as exactly ten years after the book dates which makes the year Harry was born on July 31, 1990 instead of July 31, 1980. This will mean that in the movies his parents die on Halloween night of 1991 instead of 1981.

This makes Harry's school years from 2001-2008.