"Eleven years"

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 106260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Annette Hamel" 
<annettehamel at h...> wrote:
> 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
> =^..^=

I don't have the book with me myself, but I believe that the quote 
you are referreing to is DD to McGonagal, who has been complaining 
about her fellow wizards being overtly exuberant in their 
celebration, and DD says to her that they should be allowed 
because "we've had precious little to celebrate for the last eleven 
years" meaning that they've had very little to party over since the 
LV War began eleven years ago. 

Meri - who realizes that it is kind of a good thing that she's read 
SS 25 times...