"Eleven years"

[mayeaux45]

No: HPFGUIDX 106349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 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

This may sound loopy... but could that kid you mentioned be the 
HBP?  Just an idea.  Probably nothing really... ;)
Mayeaux45