Voldemort's Age

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No: HPFGUIDX 79547

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" 
<entropymail at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thewierdone18"
> <thewierdone18 at y...> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how old Voldemort is? I can't figure it out.
> > 
> > "the weird one"
> 
> In GoF, states:
> 
> "...fifty years before...a maid had entered the drawing room to 
find
> all three Riddles dead...Elderly Mr. and Mrs. Riddle [Voldemort's
> grandparents] had been rich, snobbish, and rude, and their grown-up
> son, Tom [Voldemort's father], had been, if anything, worse...Frank
> was stubbornly repeating again and again, that he was innocent, and
> that the only person he had seen near the house on the day of the
> Riddles' deaths had been a teenage boy, a stranger, dark-haired and
> pale [Tom Riddle Jr./Voldemort]."
> 
> So, that would make Voldemort 50 + 15 (give or take a few years), 
or
> roughly 65.


Sevvie here:

In CoS. T. Riddle was 16 when the chamber was originally opened.  50 
+ 16 = 66, now add 3 years for the current book 5, and you have LV 
being 69 years old and about to be 70.

Just an observation.

Sevvie.