I can’t see how this might be related to the rest of the story, and most probably this is just a way of telling us “Yes, these magazines are ancient.“
On the other hand, this 1926/1927 thing made me somewhat more susceptible to possibly meaningful dates …
Not so. That he changed it implies that he will make an effort to avoid possibly meaningful dates unless they really are meaningful. Therefore if we see any possibly meaningful dates in the future it is more likely that they are meaningful, than if he had left a non-meaningful possibly-meaningful date in this chapter.
Funny. 1883 seems to be the year Grindelwald was born. (Although that’s not sure – it even says “c. 1882” in the main article.)
I can’t see how this might be related to the rest of the story, and most probably this is just a way of telling us “Yes, these magazines are ancient.“ On the other hand, this 1926/1927 thing made me somewhat more susceptible to possibly meaningful dates …
When it really should have caused you to update in the other direction.
Not so. That he changed it implies that he will make an effort to avoid possibly meaningful dates unless they really are meaningful. Therefore if we see any possibly meaningful dates in the future it is more likely that they are meaningful, than if he had left a non-meaningful possibly-meaningful date in this chapter.
Only if we jump on it as hard as we’d jumped on the hero-Riddle theory.