When did LV open the Chamber?

[macfotuk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 112648

--- 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. 
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> -TL

Mac: If these were not PAST (passed) events then the statements 
would surely be 'he's had a hard war', 'war's turned him funny' and 
he 'was back from the (ongoing) war', or at least 'THIS war's turned 
him funny' etc.

Imagine Frank today having come back from Serbia/former Yugoslavia 
(war that's relatively recent but presumably over) vs having come 
back from Iraq (an ongoing, or at least not yet properly/acceptedly 
finished war). HAS the war turned him funny or DID the war turn him 
funny - there's a subtle difference.

And even if you won't concede this, I stick to my comment that JKR's 
dates don't always bear close scrutiny and aren't intended to.