[HPforGrownups] What year was Voldemort born?

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 50724


--- Dom McDermott <dom-blokey at supanet.com> wrote:
> Harriet:
> 
> > I recently visited a website, which had a quiz
> about various
> > characters in the Harry Potter books.  In the quiz
> about Voldemort,
> > one of the questions was; 'what year was Voldemort
> born?"  The
> > choices they gave were:
> >
> > a. 1925
> > b. 1927
> > c. 1930
> >
> > I think it's 1926.  Now, my math never was my best
> subject in school
> > but here's how I came to my conclusion...
> >
> 
> I believe Voldemort entered Hogwarts in 1938
> (popular question in Quidditch
> Trivia - don't ask) meaning that he would have been
> born 11 years before
> that, ie: 1927
> I really can't back this up with anything canon, but
> that's the answer I
> believe to be correct...
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
Well, since we've placed CoS as being in 1992, and Tom
Riddle was a prefect the year he set the basilisk
loose, he was either a 5th, 6th or 7th year in 1942,
so, he was born in either 1927, 1926, or 1925.  So
it's definitely not 1930.

~Kathryn

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