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

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 49263


 "noir_l <noir_l at yahoo.com>" <noir_l at yahoo.com> wrote:
In Cos, Harry goes back fifty years and 
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).
Me:
How do you figure that?  If you start at Hogwarts when you're eleven and add five years, that would make sixteen.  I see no discrepancy.  If Harry does indeed go back fifty years, and it's not just a ballpark figure (and if we are to believe that he started his second year in 1992, since Nick was celebrating the 500th anniversary of his death in 1492 on that Halloween), that would mean Harry sees events from 1943 in the diary (two years before Dumbledore defeats Grindelwald) and Tom would therefore be born in 1927.  This would also mean that Tom finished school in 1945, the same year Grindelwald fell, which may or may not be significant.
 
--Barb
 
 


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