[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape, Weasley and Malfoy- timelines?

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 18447

Steve: <<<I love the idea that he just might be the rich man who owns the Riddle
House, mentioned in GF1, who keeps it for tax purposes, although no one can
quite figure out what tax purposes those might be. Hey, Lucious had Tom Riddle's
old diary...maybe he has Tom Riddle's grandparents' old house too.

And then, with that in mind and since we know that wizards live longer than
Muggles, maybe Lucious was one of those "closest friends" at Hogwarts to whom
Tom Riddle was already known as Voldemort, fifty years ago.>>>

This is quite unlikely. In CoS (chapter 12), when Harry and Ron are disguised as
Crabbe and Goyle, Draco says that:
"And father won't tell me anything about the last time the Chamber of Secrets
was opened, either. Of course, it was fifty years ago, so it was before his
time, but he knows all about it, and he says that it was all kept quiet and
it'll look suspicious if I know too much about it."

This implies that he only found out about it at a later date and so, as Tom
Riddle was a fifth year at the time, it is unlikely that Lucius and Tom were at
school together. If there time at Hogwarts did overlap then it would only have
been for a couple of years and I doubt that Tom would have trusted a first or
second year to with such information.

I personally place Lucius, and also Arthur and Molly, as being around 55 in the
books. I get the impression that all three went through Hogwarts at roughly the
same time.


Simon
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