"Eleven years"

[Annette Hamel]

No: HPFGUIDX 106230

I don't have the books at hand at the moment, but I've recently started 
re-reading the series, and noticed that in the first chapter of SS, where 
the wizarding-world is all atwitter about the happenings at Godric's Hollow, 
JKR says something to the effect of "it was the most exciting thing that had 
happened in eleven years."

So, what happened eleven years before?  Am I forgetting some big event in 
the WW?

It occurs to me that children get their Hogwart's letters at age eleven.  So 
... did someone unexpected get a letter eleven years before, and set the WW 
on its ear?  That person would be 22 or so at the time of James & Lily's 
death, around the same age as they are.

Thoughts?

Annette
=^..^=

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