OotP: Link to Voldemort?

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 63520

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rach" <rachrobins at h...> wrote:
> SPOILER (Obviously) and loads of speculation ... 
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> A side note: as 
> Malfoy Snr was not at school with the marauders, we can assume 
  that 
> he and Narcissa are probably older, closer in age to the  
  Weasleys). 

In OotP, it says Lucius is 41, which would put him 3-5 years older 
than Snape, so he was at school with the Marauders, most probably.



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> 
> Now where did Tom Riddle disappear to after he left Hogwarts, 
before 
> he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort?  12 Grimmauld Place?  Sirius 
> admitted that the house was highly protected, and that his father 
was 
> obsessive about security. Who was he anxious to protect I wonder? 
> What secret was he keeping? Voldemort. 
> 
> This ties in nicely with Sirius running away from home to live 
with 
> the Potters. Sirius has always hated dark wizards (he is a 
Gryffindor 
> afterall!)  but what was the `straw that broke the camel's back'? 
> Perhaps Voldemort (having starting his reign of terror) was given 
> protection by the Black family, and sharing a house with the most 
> powerful dark wizard of all time was too much for Sirius. 
> 


I think this is a very interesting theory, but I'm not sure if the 
timing works exactly.  IIRC Voldemort is about 70 (same approximate 
age as Minerva, apparently), and IIRC, his reign of terror had 
lasted 10 years (or was it 11?  Or 16?) by 1981, which would mean 
that he'd been terrorising the Magical world for the whole time the 
Marauders had been in school.  I think your idea that LV had close 
family ties with the Black family is valid, but I doubt that he was 
actually bunking at #12, in a house with a school-age son who'd been 
sorted into Gryffindor.

MC