[HPforGrownups] Re: Random ideas

[Trond Michelsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 51765

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:01:29PM -0400, Melissa McCarthy wrote:
> The year Harry was born was probably the year Voldemort was at the height of
> his power.  Is there canon for that? I forget.

Well, Voldemort attacked the Potters when Harry was fifteen months old,
and he'd been "in power" for eleven years by then. As far as I could
tell, his defeat came out of the blue, so it's reasonable to assume that
if he wasn't exactly losing the battle at this point. How was he doing
fifteen months earlier? Or twenty four? Hard to say, but I'm pretty sure
he was closer to the top than the bottom of his powers.

> I would suggest that
> wizarding families might have deliberately avoided conceiving during that
> year so as to avoid bringing a child into a world that looked very much as
> though it would be controlled by such an evil being.

Well... He'd been terrorizing wizards for about nine years by then. If
anything, it should have affected the years above Harry worse, I think.

Dennis Creevey should represent the baby-boomers, though.

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Trond Michelsen