[HPforGrownups] Previous Dark wizards....

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No: HPFGUIDX 27897

In a message dated 19/10/2001 11:15:50 GMT Daylight Time, vheggie at yahoo.com 
writes:
<< Right at the beginning of PoA, whilst recapping on the previous 
 stories, the narrator states that "They [Lily and James] had been 
 murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard for a hundred 
 years, Lord Voldemort"
 
 Is this just a turn of phrase, or was there really another dark 
 wizard uprising towards the end of the nineteenth century? >>


One possibility would be Grindelwald. I dunno when he came to power, but on 
Hogwarts Express in PS, Harry hands Ron a chocolate frog and the card inside 
is Dumbledore. Written on the card is the following:

... Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark 
Wizard Grindelwald in 1945,....

Going from his death it would only have been around 35-40 years before 
Voldemort came to power, but depending on how long Grindelwald had been 
around... But I'm sure somone else knows more than me. :o)

Sara