TMR's training; relative ages; Hagrid History

[Florence]

No: HPFGUIDX 18756

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hillman, Lee" <lee_hillman at u...> wrote:
> I take the 50 years to be an "approximate" 
figure.
> I believe the Chamber of Secrets was opened slightly more than 50 
years
> before HP finds it; that is, in 1941 or '42 (possibly even earlier),
> allowing Tom to finish up school and find Grindelwald before 
Dumbledore
> defeated him in 1945. After Grindy's demise, presumably, Tom went on 
a
> quest.... Okay, a dark quest, but still a quest. 
> 

I don't think this can be true because in GoF Frank Bryce has come 
back from the war and seemingly worked for the Riddles for some time 
(from the villagers comments) before the Riddles are killed.  Now 
assuming he was injured near the start of the war and worked about 4 
years as gardener before the Riddles murders then the Riddles were 
killed around 1944.  I think V got his dark arts knowledge mainly from 
the restricted section of the library and his own original mind (he 
was after all a brilliant student).

Florence