[HPforGrownups] Who was in school with Voldemort? ?(Was: Re: Did Tom go to school with James?)

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 46851


 
 Audra1976 at aol.com wrote:
Yes, McGonagall is a few years older than Voldemort, but their time at Hogwarts definitely would have overlapped.  A few others who might have been students at Hogwarts in Riddle's day based on their probable ages:  Neville's Great Uncle Algie and Great Aunt Enid, Ron's Uncle Bilius, Harry's paternal grandparents, Arabella Figg, Mundungus Fletcher, Mad-Eye Moody, Nott (the older Death Eater).  That's all I can think of at the moment.

Me:
On what are you basing this?  According to JKR, McGonagall is about 75 years old.  If she meant 75 in 1995, or at the end of Harry's fifth year, that would make her born in 1920, so she'd be seven years older than Riddle and finishing school just before he'd be starting. If JKR meant that she'd reached that age earlier in the series, that would make McGonagall born in the late teens (1916-1919) and out of school even sooner. It's possible that Neville's great uncle or aunt are siblings or one of them is a sibling-in-law to his gran, but we still don't have any way of knowing how old any of them are.  Where are you getting Ron's Uncle Bilius being in school at the same time as Riddle? (Especially as an uncle is probably a sibling to one of his parents, who seem to be about ten years younger than Riddle, roughly.)  Or any of the others, for that matter?  There is absolutely no information in canon concerning the ages of any of these people.  Why not speculate that Sprout, Sinistra, Vector, Pomfrey or Hooch were in school with Riddle while you're at it?  Not to mention Barty Crouch, Sr., Basil from the Ministry, or Arthur's co-worker, Perkins.  Being part of the "old crowd" (Figg and Fletcher) may in fact mean that they're closer to Dumbledore's age than Riddle's.  And I have no idea why you think Nott is so old.  Riddle would have been in school between 1938 and 1945, and the only people--in canon--who were also in school at the same time are Hagrid and Myrtle.  Just because someone is older than Harry doesn't mean they were necessarily in school during the particular seven years that Riddle was.
 
--Barb
 


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