Slytherin - Grindelwald - Riddle

[lupinwolf2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 76405

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at y...> 
wrote:
> --- "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?
> 
> aussie

THere has been a lot of speculation on this theroy. There is one 
(I'll try and find it and email it to you) that is pretty incredible 
with its evidence to making the point. Suffice to say, there are a 
lot of us that think this may be the direction that Rowling is 
heading this.