"Eleven years"

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106250

Annette Hamel wrote:
> 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?

Del replies :
I took it to mean that the First War had lasted 11 years. And it *did*
occur to me to wonder if it could have *anything* to do with a kid
entering Hogwarts around the times the Marauders did.

Del