How did Voldemort pass the time from 1944 to 1969? / JKR interviews

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No: HPFGUIDX 34094

Olwyn wrote:

> it's likely the DEs were formed while while the Maurauders were at 
> school, although it does make me wonder what Voldy was up to in the
> mean time. :)

He said somewhere that he spent the years (between leaving Hogwarts 
and terrorizing the wizarding UK) searching the world to study 
immortality. I personally think he did a serious amount of that 
searching in the library at Malfoy Manor, where he was a Bad 
Influence on young Lucius Malfoy. Someone has suggested that he went 
straight from murdering his father and paternal grandparents to 
working for the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in Germany (for one year, 
until Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald).

Eileen Lucky Kari wrote:

> does anyone have a copy of that interview. I've heard it (in
> several variations) but I've never seen it,

Here is a fabulous tool for searching for JKR interviews:
http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/