[HPforGrownups] "Eleven years"

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No: HPFGUIDX 106232

Annette Hamel wrote:

> 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?
> 
Maybe it was when Voldemort tried to kill Harry and the AK curse 
rebounded on Voldemort seemingly destroying him and making Harry "The 
Boy Who Lived", scarring him, imparting some of Voldy's powers to him 
and basically the event that was the catalyst of the HP series.

Jem