[HPforGrownups] MMWP dates revisited (was casting suggestion)

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 8979

Dates...

I tend to agree with Steve's timeline in the Lexicon.  Lupin tells Harry that the Whomping Willow (is that right?) was planted the year that he arrived and that Dumbledore was headmaster.  Dumbledore didn't become headmaster until 1972, which would mean that Lupin, James, Lily, Sirius would have been at Hogwarts no earlier than 1972.

(someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm doing this from memory)

Amy
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  Jim wrote:
  >Sirius *is* young (35 tops)

  35 tops?  If we're talking end of PoA, that would make James just 
  about 21 when Harry was born, if James and Sirius are exactly the same 
  age.

  Because Voldemort was 16 (and Dumbledore wasn't yet headmaster) about 
  50 years ago, there is an upper limit to the ages of MWPP/Lily/Snape. 
   But that upper limit is close to 60.  We always have to remember that 
  wizards don't age at the same rate as Muggles.  Dumbledore had auburn 
  hair at age 100.  

  James and Lily seem to have gotten married shortly after leaving 
  Hogwarts, according to Hagrid in PS.  But we have a lot more leeway in 
  deciding how long they were married before Harry was born.  A wizard 
  couple could have their first child at age 50, why not?

  A possible timeline, if Harry was born in 1980:

  1940 Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets (age 16)

  **anywhere from mid-1940's (AD has become headmaster) to late 1970's** 
  MWPP, Lily and Snape are at Hogwarts.  I.e. they were born no earlier 
  than 1935 (graduate Hogwarts 1952), no later than 1962 (graduate 
  Hogwarts 1979).

  1970 V comes to power, is about 46

  1981 Potters killed, V falls from power

  1991 PS begins

  1994 end of PoA: Lupin, Pettigrew, Sirius and Snape are as young as 
  32, as old as 59.

  I tend to think MWPP etc. would be in their early 40's when the books 
  begin, but that may be just because that's how about old my parents 
  were when I was 11.

  Did I miss something?  Are we ever told, e.g., whether V was already 
  in power when the Marauders were in school?

  Amy Z

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