underage magic (?)

[jenfold at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18128

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> --- 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

 Was there actually a law about underage magic during the school 
holidays at that time? 
 After all in PS Petunia complained about Lily comming home during 
the holidays and doing magic and that was a good 30ish years after 
Voldemort killed his parents. I think that the underage magic act may 
be a recent law, so maybe Lord V didn't need his Avada Kedavra 
License at all.

 Jen