Frank Bryce: his life and times

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18905

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> Frank Bryce was born in late summer or fall of 1917. He served in 
the 
> beginning of World War II and came home in the early 1940s with an 
> injured leg and a somewhat anti-social demeanor. He served as the 
> Riddle's gardener for several years. During the summer of 1944, Tom 
> Riddle Jr. showed up and murdered his father and grandparents in 
> their drawing room. Frank was nearing his 27th birthday at the time. 
> For the following fifty years, Frank tended the grounds of the 
Riddle 
> house. Then one night in July of 1994, fifty years later, he 
> discovered that the old house had been broken into by a strange 
group 
> of beings: Voldemort, Nagini, and Wormtail. Voldemort killed Frank 
> Bryce. He was nearing his 77th birthday when he died.
> 
> Using the assumption that "fifty years" can be taken literally -- 
and 
> for the purposes of the timeline, we do assume that -- this 
> information is canon. 

Jenfold raises an interesting possibility, though--how do we know the 
war he went off to is WWII?  Is that bit canon?  

I think it must be WWII because if he was in WWI, he would be about 94 
 in GoF (put his birthdate at 1900, make him 17 when he went to war) 
and that is very old indeed.  Possible, but not likely.

Amy Z

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