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

[raolin.rm]

No: HPFGUIDX 31049

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "heathernmoore" <heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
> > Then, Joshua Dyal wrote:
> > > Sirius, et al lived in fairly innocent times -- there was no 
> > > Voldemort rampaging through Hogwarts trying to kill them.


>  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.



See my quotes above.  Hogwarts was the one place that was safe during 
that time, and James et al were not specific targets, as Harry is.

Joshua Dyal