User blog comment:LilyLovegood/ The films do not take place during the 90's/@comment-3126093-20110411134808

The books are official canon and thus take place during the 1990s. The movies are just based on the books and are a long way from being the books' visual counterparts. The movies obviously do not take place in the 90's for various reasons. 1) The Muggle clothes some of them wear 2) There in a flat screen TV in the Dursley's in OotP 3) The date on one of the Daily Prophets was "2000 and something" (don't remember exactly) 4) Millennium bridge wasn't built in the 90's. I'm agree with Seth Cooper below. These are just anachronisms but its pretty obvious the series takes place in an alternate universe. To be honest, its a universe where September 1st is always on a Sunday because it seems that Monday (Sept. 2nd) always seems to be their first day of school