Timeline

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 1707

In the timeline for the Lexicon, I put the Marauders and their 
contemporaries down generally in the 1970s, but since it's impossible 
to nail things down to specific years, I created a "relative time 
line" for them. It's built on a couple of completely unsupported 
assumptions--James and Lily married right out of school and Harry was 
born two years after their wedding--but the result is a consistent 
picture of how those years MIGHT fit into the whole. 

I still think there's something weird going on with time in these 
books. I think Harry is somehow the focal point of a whole lot of 
things coming together. He's a conglomeration of so many other 
people: his mother's eyes, James and Tom's hair, various attributes 
of Voldemort, etc. And there's that odd comment about Voldemort being 
Salazar Slytherin's "ancestor" that we're all just assuming is an 
editorial error...

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon


> But, for now, in CoS, the image of Tom Riddle Harry sees is sixteen 
> years old, and we know that that was fifty years ago.  So, in CoS,  
> Vold would be sixty-six years old.  Now, we don't have any solid 
info 
> on James' and Lily's ages, but we know Lupin was 'young' and 
> prematurely gray.  And, once Harry sees Sirius cleaned up, he looks 
> much the way he did in James' and Lily's wedding picture.  My hunch 
> is that JKR made the Marauder generation about her own age-- mid-
> thirties or so.  Just a hunch, though.