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I have a question: how long will this story be set after Voldemort's defeat? How many years? My character is a third year so I would like to know whether she would have been at the school during the chaos of the final battle, or whether any of the characters who aren't first years would have been there at the time. I just realised this and if it wasn't that long ago, I might have to edit my backstory.
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I think around 20 years later sounds fine. It will make it easy to write for the history of the names, and you will have your "celebrity students" make cameos.