Snape and Lucius ages Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: "Lapdog" and "snivel"

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No: HPFGUIDX 115113


potioncat wrote:
 
  
Dharma replies:
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Also from what I could gather, the first war did not start in 
earnest  until the Marauders were on the verge of exiting school.  
There might  not have been a great need to have school age people 
working for Voldemort's cause on the inside, but now the children in 
school include some of the victims of the first war (kids who lost 
family members on both sides).  Will the kids in 6th and 7th year, 
really be  detached from what is going on outside?  I'm just curious 
about other  people's predictions.
 
Potioncat:
I'm as bad at maths as JKR, but let me ask this:
DD says in SS/PS something along the line of having very little to 
celebrate for 11 years.  So wouldn't that put it at the Marauders' 
first or second year?
 
I would think that by the time many of that generation were in 6th 
or 7th, if not earlier, they had an idea of what was going on.  
Certainly some of the students, on either side, would be chafing at 
the bit to get out of school and take part.  Was and will be.  Look 
at how badly Fred and George wanted to be part of the Order.

Already at least 3 students have had family injured in the new war. 
(OK, they happen to be on the wrong side, but still...)  It's been 
in the papers in such a way that even Susan Bones gets noticed for 
events that happened in the last war.  So I would think most of them 
will have an idea of what is going on...or at least, know about the 
reported events.

Dharma replies:

As far as I can figure out...the 11 years "marked with disappearances 
and increasing violence," include the years of Voldemort's rise to 
power.  According to the HP Lexicon Voldemort was at the peak of his 
power in 1979.  It's not clear to me, when an organized resistance 
began to move against Voldemort.  

Sirius says, "..there were quite a few people, before Voldemort 
showed his true colors, who thought that he had the right idea about 
things..."  This implies that there was some period of shady goings 
on prior to the entire community being embattled