[HPforGrownups] Re: My shocking idea - the case for Tom Riddle

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 72987

Wanda wrote some very interesting things, then ended with this line:

 I think that that interview
> started with Tom hoping to find a father, and ended with him killing
> the three Riddles, and it began his rage against Muggles, and his
> journey into darkness.

For some reason, I keep thinking the bit with the basilisk and Myrtle took
place before this, though.  Didn't it say that Tom was in his fifth year
when he finally figured out how to set the basilisk free, resulting in
Myrtle's death?  The way he acts about this event indicates he's already
started down the road to darkness, that he already knows he's a
Parseltongue, and perhaps that he's related to Salazar Slytherin in some
way.  I'm also pretty sure it says that Tom is sixteen when he killed his
father and grandparents.  If he was in his fifth year when he set the
basilisk free, and he was sixteen years old, he must have turned sixteen in
the latter part of the year, since the expulsion of Hagrid happened in June.
It would've been that very summer, then, that he went to the Riddle house if
he was sixteen at that time as well.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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