Timelines & a troubling passage

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 116303


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beatnik24601"
<beatnik24601 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I was re-reading PoA... and, well... "...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? 
> 
> Beatnik, 


bboyminn:

Well, I'm sure you were looking for something grander and more
elborate than I am going to give you, but I think it is merely a
figure of speech; the turn of a phrase, and not a literal statement of
time.

For example- I just started reading CoS (US Hb pg 4) and Voldemort is
referred to as "...the greatest Dark sorcerer of all time".

I'm sure that the books refer to Voldemort using various phrases of
time; 'in a century', 'of the age', 'for a hundred years', 'who ever
lived', 'of all time', etc.... I'm not exactly sure how I would search
them all out since Voldemort is referred to by an assortment of names,
but I'm confident that there are a variety of references and they
simply attempt to express /a long time/ and are not meant to be taken
as precise measurements of time. 

I'm willing to be proven wrong, but until then, I'm sticking with this
view.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)