Chronology (was Brother and Sister??)

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 1748

WARNING:  This email contains an HP chronology with lots of spoilers for CoS
and GoF.  Don't read unless you've read all the books so far!

> > It has been sugested that Voldy may be Lily's father, but what if he
> > is actually her brother or half-brother?
>
> Well, Tom Riddle the teenager showed up to kill his parents fifty years
> before the start of book 4; the groundskeeper who beat the rap was a
recent
> veteran of WWII. [This makes Hagrid, who was a few years behind Tom in
> school, older than I'd imagined, but Hagrid does remember James et al. at
> school, after all]. And Dumbledore was a professor at Hogwarts when Tom
and
> Hagrid were there, but was headmaster when James and Lily were. So I'm
> thinking we definitely have two different generations, here. Probably
> someone else has worked out the chronology better.

Here's mine:


1927 - Voldemort born.

1930 - Hagrid born.

1943 - Chamber of Secrets opened and Hagrid expelled.

1945 - Voldemort graduates

1946/7  Voldemort kills his father's family.

1950 - 1955  Snape, Lily, James, Petunia, Lupin, Wormtail and Sirius all
born.

1961 - 66 Marauders (this includes Snape and Lily for convenience, even
though they
weren't) start school.

1970 - 1981 The Voldemort Years.

1967 - 73 The Marauders leave school.  Lily and James marry not
long afterwards.

July 1980 - Dudley Dursley and Harry Potter born.

1981 - The Potters go into hiding.  Wormtail betrays them to Voldemort who
goes after them with the results we all know of.  Wormtail also frames
Sirius for the betrayal, and for his own murder.  Sirius ends up in Azkaban,
Harry with the Dursleys.  Jury still out on who got the worst deal.  : )

1983 - 5  Group of Death Eaters, including Barty Coruch Jnr, attempt to
revive Voldemort and torture the Longbottoms for info.  They get sent to
Azkaban.

1984 - 6 Barty Crouch Snr frees his son from Azkaban but keeps him prisoner
until GoF.

1991 - Harry starts Hogwarts.  PS/SS takes place.

1992/3 - CoS

1993/4 - PoA

1994/5 - GoF

1998 - Harry due to graduate.  Voldemort presumably meets a sticky end.


I'm open to comments and sugestions for imrpoving it.  I know a lot of the
dates are pretty vague, but I believe the timescale is about right.  It
would also help if I knew how old Harry's parents were when he was born, as
that would sort out the dates of their schooldays and birthdates.

Jinx