Slytherin - Grindelwald - Riddle

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 76423

> --- "Hagrid" <aussie_lol> wrote:
> > 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
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> --- "lupinwolf2001" <lupinwolf2001> wrote:
> 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.
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Thanx, lupin, I'd like to compare notes.

Slytherin came at a time when "... it was an age when magic was 
feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much 
persecution." So "He disliked taking students of Muggle parentage, 
believing them to be untrustworthy." (CoS - Chap 9)

I suggest Slytherin's parents came to a violent and bloody end thanks 
to Muggles. This is also a pre-requisit for anyone inheriting 
Slytherin's role, if not lineage. 

So Riddle was an orphan prior to taking the Voldemort role.

If the reincarnating/possessing spirit of Salazar Slytherin sees that 
Voldemort may lose, another candidate may be prepared ... Watch out 
for the death of Lucius Malfoy while in Azkaban prison.

aussie