Timelines & a troubling passage

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 116288


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

Annemehr:
Alternatively, the "hundred years" might be the narrator inserting
something Harry does not know (which does happen sometimes).  Dark
Wizards must occur from time to time; Grindelwald and Voldemort can't
be the only ones.  Perhaps there was a really bad one around 100 years
ago.

Since you never hear about Grindelwald except on that Chocolate Frog
card, and since nobody ever seems to compare Voldemort to him, I
wouldn't be surprised if LV had turned out to be much worse than
Grindelwald.  Especially since Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald but
never seemed to be able to vanquish LV, indeed the old Order was on
the losing side until LV attacked baby Harry.

Annemehr