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[miladyem at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18816

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Deeblite <deeblite at h...> wrote:
> At 08:41 AM 5/15/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hillman, Lee" <lee_hillman at u...> wrote:
>>...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)...
> 
> 
> I want to add that it's entirely possible that at the time, the 
restricted 
> section of the library WASN'T restricted.  It's bringing about the 
creation 
> of the worst dark wizard in history would be enough reason to make 
it 
> restricted, though, no?

Delurking...  I'm a 16- year old sophmore in the Pacific Northwest.  
I lurk because by the time I finish reading all my email anything I 
could say has already been said, but I had to comment.

Why would Grindelward and/or the Restricted Section be the only 
source of the Dark Arts for Voldemort/Riddle?

IMHO, Riddle would have gone to Hogwarts, and discovered he was a 
Parseltongue, become interested in the Dark Arts, developed his 
strong antimuggle prejudice, opened the chamber, etc,(not necessarily 
in that order) and while there learn enough Dark Arts to be able to 
sucessfully preform Avada Kedavra.  I imagine he killed his father's 
family immediately after he graduated which would circumvent his 
being underage.  I don't know how he practiced and learned Avada 
Kedavra if it is such a difficult spell.

I don't think he would have to study with Grindelward.  Someone 
(sorry I'm not sure who) says TR 'disappears for a time traveling and 
consorting with the worst of our number'(or something like that).  
There must always be dark wizards or witches in Harry's world like 
there are always criminals in ours.  He would have sought them out, 
met them, and learned from them.  He seems to be interested in power 
and immortality.(Not too creative as evil overlords go)  There is 
probably plenty of dark magic focusing on those things, that a 
resourceful, bright person could learn about. He probably also met 
some of his future death eaters.  Still, there seem to be at least 25 
missing years that would be interesting to find out about (future 
plot development?)  Eventually, he made himself a semi-immortal snake 
thing and resurfaced. There are definitly still major questions 
though.

Whew! Thanks for bearing with me!

Em

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