User blog comment:LilyLovegood/ The films do not take place during the 90's/@comment-306173-20110409180109/@comment-99.125.178.146-20130309045217

All of this is making my head Hurt. I having first read the books when I was 9 or 10(2009-2010) always pictured it present day. But when the DH2 came out I was really into the fandom and did some research! The moivie dates are Loosly tied around the dates in the books. It took me a long time and multiple pieces of paper to put together a timeline for the moives and the books. But in the end they do add up. The final battle takes place in 1998 which is aroun the time the first movie came out. Hence the term "I open at the close"