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

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49275

In a message dated 06/01/2003 04:19:10 Eastern Standard Time, 
noir_l at yahoo.com writes:


> <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.>
> 

Me:
Again.. Harry was 11 when he *began* his first year... so fifth years would 
be between 15 and 16 in the beginning of the year and 16-17 by the end.

> Yes, I guess that could be right. I was just thinking that Harry will be 15 
> in his fifth year, but that doesn't mean Tom was--we don't know when Tom's 
> birthday was.
> 
> <The comment  "Most feared wizard in a hundred years" doesn't refer to just 
> 
> Voldemort.> 
> 
> I'm not totally sure, but I see your point. The way it was worded is 
> ambiguous. To me, the book seemed that it was referring to Voldemort for it 
> stated: "They had been murdered [Harry's parents], murdered by the most 
> feared Dark wizard for a hundred years, Lord Voldemort" (6). It didn't say 
> "one of the most" but "the most." I can see what your saying and you could 
> be right, but the way it is stated could also mean just Voldemort too. I 
> think it's just one of those sentences that can have a couple of meanings 
> depending on how you read it. 

Ok... hmmm.. how to put this...

Americans as I have noted ( and I've lived here a while ~ 12 years) seem to 
have a different interpretation of language that others. Not a bad thing, 
mind you....

To me I still stand by what I said that Voldie is indeed the most feared in 
100 years, but there have been others on the Dark Side..

this statement also elludes to others in WW history who were just as pwerful 
and frightening...

It is a mere interpretation of written word, as far as I am concerned. Having 
taught in the states, I understand the interpretation, but I still do stand 
by my own.... not that I am some kind of spectacular interpreter of the 
meaning... BUT! I can say having read many times both the US and UK versions 
of each book, ours (UK) are a wee bit different and speak better to me......



-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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