[HPforGrownups] How old is Voldemort?--Two different ages given!

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49262

In a message dated 05/01/2003 22:47:07 Eastern Standard Time, 
noir_l at yahoo.com writes:


> the last time the Chamber was open was fifty years ago (US edition 
> p.233) and Tom was 15 (the movie says 16, but in the book Tom says it 
> took him 5 years to find the Chamber, so he would be 15). So that 
> would make Voldemort 65 in Harry's second year. But in PoA, Harry's 
> third year, it says that Voldemort has been the most feared wizard 
> for "a hundred years" (US edition p. 6). 


First off... in his fifth year, he could be sixteen, right? Harry is 11 in 
his first year at Hogwarts.... ah, but that is just knitpicking.

The comment  "Most feared wizard in a hundred years" doesn't refer to just 
Voldemort. I think it should be taken in the context that in the past 100 
years, he has been the most feared. See, if Voldie were the only evil wizard 
out there, he wouldn't have much of a following. So, it must be established 
that there have been wizards to fear in the past. :)

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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