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

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 49307

Barb:
> > How do you figure that?  If you start at Hogwarts when you're 
> >eleven and add five years, that would make sixteen.  

Lindsay:
>I was counting beginning in year one. So sometime during year one Tom 
>discovered who he was and began looking for the chamber. He would be 
>11 (1st year), 12 (2nd year),....up to 15 (5th year--therefore 
>searching for 5 years). But as I mentioned in another post we don't 
>know when Tom was born so he could have been 16 like you mention. 

I always find it easier to think of what age people are turning during a specified year. Harry was 11 when he went into Hogwarts. His birthday was in July. I have a late birthday like that (mine's in June) and I'm always one of the youngest in my grade. So everyone would be turning 12 sometime in their 1st year, or in the summer after. So, generally, the larger amount of kids are turning 12 sometime DURING their first year at Hogwarts. So Tom Riddle is just as likely to be 16 as he is to be 15, if not MORE likely.

--Taryn

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