? on new GOF photos in EW

amis917 amis917 at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 24 01:55:11 UTC 2005


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "osotac" <osotac at a...> wrote:
> okay,...here is another question.....when did Tom kill his father 
> and grandparents.....what year was it......did he do it in the 
> summer of 1944, before his 7th year at Hogwarts.....did he do it in 
> the summer of 1945, after he leaves school......or, as the picture 
> from "Goblet of Fire" suggests, in 1943, the year he opened the 
> Chamber of Secrets.......there have been conflicting dates on most 
> every Potter site......is there anything, cannon wise, about the 
> exact year these murders happened???...another thing that bothers 
> me.....it may be an "British" thing, but....how can Tom Riddle be 
> Jr., and how can his father be Sr. if they have different middle 
> names......we now know that Tom's middle name belongs to his 
> maternal grandfather......anyone have any answers.....not theories, 
> cannon evidence......thanks,..osotac
> 


According to the Lexicon - Tom killed his father and in grandparents in 
1944 before his 7th hear at Hogwarts. There was a discussion about the 
Jr./Sr. thing on the OT list. Aparently, 1. it's not used in the UK and 
2. You don't have to have the same middle name. Voldemort and his 
father DO have different middle names, so the tombstone in the photo is 
wrong. I have to wonder, though, if you'll be able to tell in the film. 
Will Harry stand there and look at it long enough for the audience to 
get a good look at it? If they just grace over it, the names/dates 
won't be THAT big of a deal. I know during a move, I don't usually try 
to figure out how old people are based on the ages on the tombstones. 
It's a pretty exciting part of the story, so I'm sure people will be 
thinking of other things. Don't get me wrong, it'd be nice if they 
didn't screw up stuipd things like this. I'm sure there will be larger 
and more noticable mistakes. 

-Amie









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