[HPforGrownups] "Eleven years"

[Annette Hamel]

No: HPFGUIDX 106249

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?
 >

Then Jem wrote:
<<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.>>

Now me (Annette) again:
I think you're misunderstanding me, Jem.  At the very beginning of the 
story, when Harry is still a baby and Voldemort tries to kill him, the book 
says it's the most exciting thing that's happened in eleven years.  That 
would imply that something happened 11 years *before*, i.e., about 10 years 
before Harry was *born*.

Annette
=^..^=

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