When did LV open the Chamber?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 112560

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tylerswaxlion" 
<ctcasares at s...> wrote:
> Mac wrote:
> > 
> > in GoF it is said of Frank by the villagers that 'he had a hard 
war' 
> > and that 'war turned him funny' and in the text that he 'had come 
> > back from the war with a very stiff leg ..." - all statements 
that I 
> > believe have led most readers, certainly me, to assume that 'the' 
> > war referred to is in the past/over. 

-TL:
> Forgive me for not having my books unpacked yet, so I can't go and
> re-read, but I don't see how those quotes indicate that Frank 
himself
> was in the service until the war was over.
> 
> The war is over in '45, but couldn't Frank have been sent back 
sooner,
> turned "funny" by the war that is now (of '45) over?  
> 
> Or am I just befuddled by too much talk about time-travel tonight?

Geoff:
I would agree that there is not enough evidence to confirm that Frank 
Bryce came home from the war in 1945.

The fact that he came home with a stiff leg and also.. "a great 
dislike of crowds and noises" (GOF "The Riddle House" p.8 UK edition) 
rather suggests earlier to me.

He could easily have been with the BEF in France in 1939/40 and been 
evacuated from Dunkirk when many servicemen were injured or killed 
and if he had been under intense fire and bombing on the beaches, 
that could explain his wish for a quiet life.

Geoff
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