User blog comment:LilyLovegood/ The films do not take place during the 90's/@comment-64.255.180.51-20110425231750

This is like trying to convince someone the sky is blue. You point to it and say, look thats BLUE and we call it blue because thats the accepted standard set by long standing tradition. You can call it green all you want but dont expect anyone to follow suit. But they'll refuse to believe. The books are based in the 90s...so are the movies. If King George had an iPod in The Kings Speech you could argue that the plot is based in the present, or you could accept that it was a mistake. DH1 clearly has the Potters dead in 1981...Harry was one...by LilyL's argument he would be 31 in 2011 when DH1 came out. Make sense of that. Besides, anachronisms are fun to catch, if we try the alternate universe thing...then nothing is a mistake.