Who was in school with Voldemort?

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46884

Yikes, sorry, Barb.  I didn't mean to rock your world or anything there.  It 
was merely speculation, simply to spark the imagination.  I think I can 
defend my choices though.  They weren't entirely random.  Someone else just 
wrote that McGonagall was only afew years older than Riddle, and I took their 
word for it rather than doing the math myself.  So I was wrong about her.  

As for the others, we don't know exactly how old they are, but there's a good 
chance they might have been at Hogwarts at the same time as Riddle.  We are 
*not* talking about a particualr 7 years.  If Riddle was in the graduating 
class of '46, then anyone who graduated in the class of '39 through class of 
'52 would have been in school at the same time as him.  That's 13 years in a 
row.  

You want to know where I got Ron's Uncle Bilius?  If he is Arthur's brother, 
he could easily be 10 years old than him, and therefore around Riddle's age.  
Arthur's children span about 10 years, and Lucius's comment, through Draco, 
about the Weasleys always having more children than they can afford implies 
that Arthur came from a big family himself.  We don't see any of Ron's 
cousins at Hogwarts, so unless all his aunts and uncles are childless, Arthur 
is probably the youngest in his family.  Algie, Enid, and Gran have just as 
much of a chance, if not more.  Plus, i don't think JKR would mention these 
characters and not have them come into play somehow.  We have been told very 
little about Riddle's time at Hogwarts, and will likely hear more.

Figg and Fletcher are part of the "old crowd," but personally I don't think 
they are as old as Dumbledore.  Dumbledore is old even for a wizard, and I 
really hope the "old crowd" are at least under 100 for the most part.  We 
don't know how old they are, so it's *possible* they are Riddle's age, that 
they would have been in their prime at the same time as Riddle/Voldemort.

Nott: He appeared stooped over compared to Crabbe and Goyle, which implies an 
older man.  He may be even older than Riddle, maybe even Dumbledore's age, so 
he was a longshot, but it was just a suggestion.

Sprout:  Good suggestion. I hadn't thought of her, but she may be around 
Riddle's age.

Pomfrey, Sinistra, Hooch, and Crouch Sr, since you asked, all seem younger to 
me than Riddle.   Vector and Perkins: I didn't see enough of a description to 
even make an educated guess at their ages. 

Audra 

In a message dated 20/11/2002 10:54:59 Eastern Standard Time, 
psychic_serpent at yahoo.com writes:
> 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.




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