And so on it went, ending at "1993: 3600’. At first glance, there seemed nothing suspicious about it: whoever had drawn it clearly had hoped it would pass inspection as part of the recipe. But 2000 was the number of men and women each county (except Slytherin, of course) was permitted to recruit into its own personal army. And the numbers in the left-hand column were dates: the first one marked one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five years after the founding of Hogwarts by the Four Founders, which was the date system employed by the land. They were currently in the year 1993.