ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 182553

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98 at ...> 
wrote:

> What has me puzzled is why it took so long for Grindenwald to try 
to 
> take over the world.  If we start his attempt in 1939, Grindenwald 
> and Dumbledore have not seen each other for say 95 years?  They had 
> plans back when they were boys in about 1870.  What was Grindenwald 
> doing all that time? 


95 years seems a bit too much :-). Wasn't DD born in 1881? If so (I 
really should have checked it in the Lexicon, but never mind), DD and 
GG haven't seen each other for about 40 years, not 95 - sorry if I'm 
wrong :-). 

Anyway, 40 years is also a long time. What was GG doing? I suppose he 
went looking for the Elder wand first, then he started recruiting 
supporters, then building an army - I really don't know how much time 
things like this can take. Didn't it take LV more than 20 years to 
start the first war (I mean from the time he finished school)? Or am 
I mixing up something?


zanooda, not very good with numbers ...