[HPforGrownups] Re: Back to the cursed DADA-job

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 166504

> Bart:
> I'm not crazy about the idea of attaching Muggle dates to the HP books, 
> especially since I don't recall any actually being used in the canon (the 
> source, I assume, is from JKR interviews). Because of the time stretching 
> because of the less than 1 book/year schedule, I prefer just using 
> internal references. "Zero points" could be, for example, Harry Potter's 
> birth, the attack on GH, the beginning of book one, and, of course, the 
> current book. Also, note that from CoS, we know that Riddle was using 
> "Lord Voldemort" at age 15. So we don't really know how long TR was openly 
> operating as LV before he became considered to be a theat, and when 
> ANYBODY outside of Tommy's circle (including DD) found out that he was 
> Voldemort.

Magpie:
Other people have pointed out the CoS=1992 year, but for me it's more 
general as well. Dates don't really conform to the calendar, but there's a 
general sense of how much time has past. It's clear around what time period 
Tom Riddle is living in, and he's fairly young when he comes to apply for 
the job, so I don't see why we shouldn't just assume that yes, the DADA 
position has been cursed since probably the 1960s.

Since the curse doesn't always end in any kind of violence or anything like 
that, I think it's still possible for people to be "starting to think" it's 
cursed in CoS in Hagrid's opinion.

-m