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

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 46888

  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

Barb wrote:

> 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

In the Scholastic October 2000 interview, JKR said:

Dumbledore is a hundred and fifty, and Professor McGonagall is a sprightly
seventy. Wizards have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles. (Harry
hasn't found out about that yet.)

I've figured up the dates in the past, and mine don't match the HP Lexicon.
I can't figure how theirs came out that way, so I gave up.  Here's what I
came up with:

McGonagall born 1924
Riddle born 1926
McGonagall started at Hogwarts 1935
Riddle started at Hogwarts 1937
Chamber opened 1942
McGonagall leaves Hogwarts 1942
Riddle leaves Hogwarts 1944

This is based on the assumption that McGonagall was seventy at the time of
GoF since the interview was done as publicity for GoF.  If not, subtract
tack on four years and you have:

McGonagall born 1920
Riddle born 1926
McGonagall started at Hogwarts 1931
Riddle started Hogwarts 1937
Chamber opened 1942
McGonagall leaves Hogwarts 1938
Riddle leaves Hogwarts 1944

So my figures (which may or may not be anywhere close to accurate!) have
them together at Hogwarts between one year and five years.  Depending on
when McGonagall was actually 70 (SS/PS or GoF).

Richelle

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