That's what she might have meant, and obviously the movies are done with modernish dress and slang. But, as John Clute might say, what's the Real Year? It seems to me that this is a 1950s story. Did JKL go to boarding school? The books are probably reflective of her own experience in school. And the themes of one half-generation past the Great War also place it in 1957.
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Date: 2007-06-29 04:03 pm (UTC)