underage magic (?)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18095

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Claire Weale" <clairey at a...> wrote:
> When voldey murdered his father he was a "teenage" boy, does that 
> mean he was underage??? I don't know if this subject has already 
been 
> thrashed out, I'll go check...

It's hard to say.  We just don't have an exact enough date either for 
the murders or for Voldemort's birth.  He was a fifth-year student 
fifty years before CS, which puts his birth at around 1927, and the 
murders took place fifty years before GF, which puts them around 
1944.  That would make him 17 the year he killed his family--probably 
the summer after his 6th or 7th year.  But both of those "fifty 
years" are likely to be approximate--no one ever says "The Chamber of 
Secrets was opened exactly 50 years ago" or "Exactly 50 years ago, 
Frank Bryce was accused of murder." 

Why do you ask?  Wondering whether he'd received his Avada Kedavra 
license yet?

Amy Z