Well, the year after--Halloween 1981 was when he got that lightning scar.
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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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Kathy A - Aug 03, 2007 3:55:31 pm PDT #2254 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Matt M. - Aug 03, 2007 6:52:17 pm PDT #2255 of 3301
"I'm finished being everyone's butt-monkey."
So the entire HP series takes place between the years of 1991 and 1998. Just now realized that.
Kate P. - Aug 03, 2007 6:56:20 pm PDT #2256 of 3301
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
So the entire HP series takes place between the years of 1991 and 1998.
Yeah, I just realized that when I was reading HP7 and saw the dates on James & Lily's graves. Which means Harry was born in July 1980, which means he's almost exactly my age. Weird!
sj - Aug 03, 2007 7:56:25 pm PDT #2257 of 3301
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I was just thinking about how few grandparents there are in the Potterverse. There's Neville's grandmother and then Tonks mother is a grandmother at the end. Do we meet any Weasley grandparents at the wedding? Do we ever know anything about Lily and Petunia's parents?
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2007 8:56:08 pm PDT #2258 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
We met Great-Aunt Muriel (I'm guessing she's Molly's aunt, since she refers to the Weasleys as "breeding like rabbits"). Just about all the older generation old enough to be grandparents are either of unstated marital status (Hogwarts faculty) or dead (Sirius's mom).
Anne W. - Aug 04, 2007 1:57:43 am PDT #2259 of 3301
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I would also imagine that the families of the good guys would have had a number of casualties during Voldemort's era, especially if they were actively working against him.
By the way, how long was Voldemort in power for the first time?
Matt M. - Aug 04, 2007 5:22:28 am PDT #2260 of 3301
"I'm finished being everyone's butt-monkey."
Same impression I got. That because of all the battles, there weren't a lot of grandparents still around. That's obviously going to be different in the HP future.
By the way, how long was Voldemort in power for the first time?
According to the ever-trustworthy Wikipedia, Voldemort was only in power for about 10 years, from 1970 to 1980. Before that, people were suspicious of him, as he kept disappearing for long periods of time. But it wasn't until disco that he showed his power.
Anne W. - Aug 04, 2007 5:27:27 am PDT #2261 of 3301
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
That because of all the battles, there weren't a lot of grandparents still around. That's obviously going to be different in the HP future.
There's an excellent fic (recced further upstream, I believe) which posits that eleven years from the Battle of Hogwarts, the incoming class is going to be very small, due to the number of muggleborn wizards who'd been killed off, fled the country, etc.
But it wasn't until disco that he showed his power.
My mind is going to some very bad and very cracky places
DebetEsse - Aug 04, 2007 6:07:12 am PDT #2262 of 3301
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I would think that the numbers would be lower than during Harry's tenure from the next year (What would be year 8)
sumi - Aug 04, 2007 6:10:46 am PDT #2263 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
But I bet that there were alot of births in the years following Voldemort's death so that even though there weren't that many kids in Teddy's class the younger ones would have much bigger classes.
Love the Teddy Lupin fic and also the one with Giles and the Marauders. Now I want her to write a follow-up in which Giles gets the news of everything from OOP on and then gets sent to Sunnydale.