TMR's training; relative ages

[jenfold at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 18889

--- 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 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).
> 
 To add my two knuts. Frank Bryce is described in the first chapter 
as 'Old Frank Bryce' and has bad hearing associated with old age. 
This leads me to believe the war he fought in was WW1 and therefore 
had been working for the Riddles for many years and is thus fairly 
useless for dating Tom's attack.

 Jen