The Rise of Voldemort

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 34036

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Olwyn" <igenite_olwyn at y...> wrote:
> Anyways, I like your idea about him [Lupin] having been bitten by 
> a DE, but if he was bitten while he was young, and before he went 
> to Hogwarts (didnt they plant the Whomping Willow for him), then 
> surely it would have been before the DE's were formed so to speak, 
> since he went to Hogwarts at the same time as TR/LV.
 
If by TR/LV you mean Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort, the answer is no.  
Tom Riddle was sixteen in 1943, or about fifty years earlier than 
the end of Chamber of Secrets (1993).  Lupin went to school with the 
other Marauders--James, Sirius and Peter--during the 1970s.  Since 
Voldemort's rise to power occurred around 1970, if  the Marauders 
were born sometime between and 1959 and 1961, they would have 
started school 1970-1972, part of which is after Voldmort's "rise."  
We also only know that this is when he came into prominence; he 
could have been gathering power and followers for years, so Death 
Eaters could actually have existed since the mid-1960s or even 
earlier, but it's possible that they and Voldemort weren't on the 
Ministry's radar yet.

--Barb