[HPforGrownups] Riddle and Lucius, Filch

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No: HPFGUIDX 40016

Catlady wrote:
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Anyway, my point ("and I do have one") is that if Arthur and Lucius
were at Hogwarts together and Arthur and Tom were at Hogwarts at the
same time, then Lucius and Tom were in Slytherin House together. I
envision Lucius rather younger than that, but it would be tidy for
him to be one of the 'useful friends' Tom made at school.***

Tom was a 6th year when he opened the chamber, iirc. Or possibly a 5th year - it's a bit vague. But this means that if Lucius started when Tom was a 7th year and Head Boy, the Chamber could've been opened after Lucius' time, and Lucius and Tom could've been schoolfriends.

But I've always liked the theory, which isn't contradicted by canon, but not supported by it either, that Lucius is about 10 years younger than Tom, that Lucius' father was a patron of Tom's or hired him to tutor Lucius.

Rosie wrote that filch may confiscate things from students "because he is jealous of their ability to work magical items..."

But Filch can work some magical items - things like Mrs Skower's cleaning supplies, for one. And it's implied that Muggles can enjoy Magical things in Book 3 when hermione says that she wants the toothflossing stringmints for her parents, and in Book 4 when dudley eats the twins' candy. He just, it seems, can't use anything that needs a wand. Of course, this gets b ack to the question of whether he could make a potion - is it knowing the ingredients, or is it being magical *and* knowing what to put in? JKR
has not made it clear yet.


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