Question #4--Why so long for the last Horcrux? (small addition)

[Jerri/Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 183472

> However, this doesn't change that LV waited almost 35 years,
> since he didn't know of the Prophecy until 1980.
>
> kennyg1864, who wonders if maybe LV got hooked on the WW version
> of the Wii during that time

"Maths again!"

There are lots of things that JKR does very well.  (One major example, 
to me, is how she has her child characters grow.  The Harry in SS/PS 
is 11, the one in GoF is 14, etc.  In so many fantasy series about 
children, the kids don't seem to age realistically.)  But timelines 
seem to be rather a weakness.  We see this over and over.  The missing 
24 hours, the timing of the full moon, the age of the older Weasley 
brothers, and many more.  That aspect of the books is one I have to 
just let roll by with a "it's just a book/series" shrug, rather than 
try to analyze or try to make things fit.

Jerri