Generations in the Wizarding World & ToT Spoilers

[hamster8 at hotmail.com]

Eb, I fail to see how you can come up with such incredible, thought 
provoking posts.  So my reply will be mercifully brief, before I get 
an on-topic warning, which would be ironic ...

I agree totally, for one thing ... I just wanted to make a couple of 
points.  Your 'schedule' puts me bang at the end of Generation X (May 
1982).  Can someone detail for me just what Gen X actually is?  I've 
heard it mentioned but cannot put a finger on it.  What do we do?  Why 
are we derided??

You mentioned 'Reaganomics' ... the equivalent for British kids born 
around the same time would be Thatcherism.  But that's politics *slaps 
self*

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STOP RIGHT HERE IF YOU ARE READING TIME OF TRIAL AND *DO NOT* WANT TO 
KNOW WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!

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I have put Arthur and Molly as very young kids during the war years 
(sorry, this is a horrible spoiler for ToT.  My Arthur is 3 years old 
in December 1941.  Molly does not appear in the story, but is probably 
about the same age.  Lucius Malfoy is a baby, and has an older brother 
at Hogwarts.  Added to this, Harry's grandparents have just left 
Hogwarts, and are fighting in the Muggle war.  This, of course, puts 
forward my theory that the pre-Marauders generation left having kids 
very late.  I think, personally, that owing to the long wizarding 
lifespan, wizarding folk do leave their kids late.  Except in the case 
of the kids born around the early 80s.  People in the war years in 
Britain married and had kids quite early on, for fear of not getting a 
chance to in the future, I presume.

Just my addition.
Al