Slytherin - Grindelwald - Riddle

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--- "Wanda Sherratt" <wsherratt3338> wrote(editted):
> I've been thinking that there must be some Voldemort-Grindelwald  
connection.  It's a good idea.  The date of Grindelwald's downfall is 
one of the very few dates given in the books - 1945. When something 
unusual like that comes up, I have the feeling that we're meant to 
notice it.  I think that would have been right after Tom Riddle left 
Hogwarts, so I was thinking it was possible that he left school and 
immediately sought out Grindelwald.  There would have been time for 
them to meet before Dumbledore destroyed G. AFter that, I'm not 
sure.  Maybe Riddle became a disciple of Grindelwald, and learned 
from him, so that he was able to carry on after Grindelwald fell.  Or 
maybe Grindelwald's fall left a power vacuum on the Dark side, which  
Voldemort was able to exploit and take over.  I just don't think it  
can be accidental that Tom Riddle headed for eastern Europe at about 
the time a very evil German wizard was around, and the two didn't 
intersect somehow.
> 

Voldemort was defeated, but not destroyed at the time of Harry's 
attack.
Grindelwald was defeated by Dumbledore, but it didn't say that he was 
killed (Ref: the back of the Wizard cards in 1st book.)
~and~
Salazar Slytherin left Hogwarts, but his death was never reported.

There are ways and means for a wizard to stay alive over centuries. 
Flammel used the Philosophers (or Sorcerer's in US) Stone to live 
close to 700 years old. Who is to say that Salazar Slytherin himself 
doesn't possess promising students on the Dark side to maintain his 
quest?

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