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"(...) the dreadful, quavering sound of thirty musical saws, played by an orchestra on a black-draped platform."
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The Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party was a celebration thrown by Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington to commemorate the day he died. The Party included a candlelit dinner of rancid, moulded food, the smell of which would gag a normal living creature.

Sir NIcholas de Mimsy-Porpington died in 1492, and is celebrating his 500th deathday anniversary. This fact allows us to find the exact date of the setting of the second book, therefore, allowing us to record the dates of the events of the Harry Potter series against this date.

The ghost orchestra playing at the Deathday Party were playing the musical saw.

The Headless Hunt attended the party. They are described like "a dozen horses with headless riders" There also was a game of Head Hockey, by the Hunt.

The only people normally invited to a Deathday Party are no longer living, "I bet there aren't many living people who can say they've been to one of those" -- Hermione Granger, CoS, Page 100 Paragraph 1.

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