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When Does AAAA Wizardry Take Place?

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Bad Alias:
On her timeline, Priscellie says:
--- Quote ---Somewhere between May of 9 ASF and the Summer of 10 ASF: AAAA Wizardry, the short story included in The Dresden Files RPG: Our World.
--- End quote ---
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In the foreword to the Brief Cases edition of AAAA Wizardry, Jim says:
--- Quote ---This next story is set just after the events, I believe, of Proven Guilty, where Harry Dresden has become impressed with the need to instruct the younger wizards around him.
--- End quote ---

Why does Priscellie have the story take place three to four years later than when Jim says he "believes" the story to have taken place? I assume she has reasons and those reasons make sense. The end of Jim's quote makes me think that Jim is referring to the class taking place just after Proven Guilty; not the story within the story. That would mean that Jim isn't referring to the inner story and Priscellie is referring to the outer story, which might solve the discrepancy.

I'm trying to setup my digital library so that I can just re-read all the stories, short and otherwise, in in-universe chronological order without having to constantly check which or whether a short story is next because, having already read them, I'm not worried about spoilers.

Mr. Death:
I'd have to check the RPG book, but I think the notes around that peg it as a "recent" file. The RPG book is written to take place between Small Favor and Turn Coat, and came out a decade ago, so Priscellie was presumably going off that information, since Brief Cases only came out in the last couple months.

Edit: Scratch that, there's no reference to when it was written in the in-character notes, only that Billy found it in the back of Harry's filing cabinet.

But that's still my best guess -- that Priscellie thought it was from then because of when the RPG books take place.

Snark Knight:
I remember thinking one of the shorts referenced a main novel later than the ones Jim had placed it between in the foreword.

That was the one where Harry was telling the Warden cadets a story, right?  I'd guess the earlier timeline is when the events actually happened, and the latter is when Harry was narrating them.

Mr. Death:
Thinking about it, AAAA Wizardry has to take place after White Night -- Harry is only sent out to the house explicitly on a tip from the Paranet.

Arjan:
According to Brief Cases it is just after Proven Guilty. But even Jim is not quite sure so why should we?

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