Timelines & a troubling passage

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116283


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beatnik24601" 
<beatnik24601 at y...> wrote:

Beatnik:
> I was re-reading PoA (UK paperback edition), and, well...listen to 
> this.  "...Lily and James Potter had not died in a car crash.  They 
> had been murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard *for a 
> hundred years*, Lord Voldemort" (pg10, emphasis mine).  "for a 
> hundred years"...what's going on? As far as we can tell, PoA is set 
> in 1993, right? So, what happened in 1893; and what about 
> Grindelwald, was he not evil enough to be as 'feared' as LV?  

Geoff:
Possibly not from Harry's point of view. He may have latched on to a 
hundred years as just a figure, drawing on bits and pieces of 
information Hagrid and others have produced.

He may not have picked up on Grindelwald in particular; he's merely 
someone mentioned on Dumbledore's Frog Card along with his other 
achievements.

Geoff
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