"Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war ..."

[heathernmoore]

No: HPFGUIDX 30903

> Calypso wrote:
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> <snip>
> History cannot repeat *exactly* or that wouldn't be a good story.
> <snip>
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> Then, Joshua Dyal wrote:
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> > And another also, the environment has changed completely.  James, 
> > Sirius, et al lived in fairly innocent times -- there was no 
> > Voldemort rampaging through Hogwarts trying to kill them.
> <snip>
> 


 Actually... considering that Voldemort was in his ascendancy for ten 
years before he took on the Potters, wouldn't that dictate that the 
Marauders were *not* in school during "fairly innocent times," for 
the most part? I believe the common interpretation is that Harry was 
born when the Potters were just twenty years old (having graduated in 
1978), and we know factually that his parents were killed just over a 
year later. That would of course make *all* of the Marauders' school 
years coincide with Voldemort's increasingly harsh power period.