[HPforGrownups] Tom Riddle

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 3199


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From: "Simon J. Branford" <simon.branford at hertford.ox.ac.uk>
To: "HPforGU" <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 7:54 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Tom Riddle


> > It does leave the question of what people thought had happened to Tom
> Riddle. He is supposedly one of the greatest students ever to go to
Hogwarts
> and then he goes missing. Did anyone make any enquires?
> Or do we get left with the answer that Lord Voldemort killed Tom Riddle
> (this idea is taken from some film - Star Wars?).

Tom Riddle was killed, along with his parents, sometime in the early 40s, as
we learn in GoF, Chapter 1. They seem to have been victims of Avada Kedrava,
The Killing Curse.  Just how Voldy engineered this is yet to be explained.

    - CMC