Dumbledore VS. Voldemort

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108980

In trying to figure out why LV seems to despise DD so much, I came across this:  Dumbledore is speaking here, "I was sure that if he [LV] realized that our relationship was - or ever had been - closer than that of headmaster and pupil, he would sieze his chance to use you as a means to spy on me," and later "Voldemort's aim in possessing you, as he demonstrated tonight, would not have been my destruction. It would have been yours."  Yes, yes, we know LV was trying to get DD to kill HP for him.  But why does DD feel that LV is wanting to spy on him or feel that LV wants him destroyed?

If we believe that CoS took place in 1992 (500 years after Nick's deathday of 1492), and the CoS was opened exactly 50 years before, then Riddle is 16 in 1942 (he says he put his 16 year old self into the diary - and is therefore, probably in 6th year at Hogwarts.)  DD would only have needed to be a teacher at Hogwarts for one more year, possibly two (1944), until Riddle graduated.  We know that DD defeated the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in 1945 - would he have been too busy with this to teach or did he defeat Grindelwald during summer, Christmas, or Easter break?  (Doesn't really matter.)  Riddle would have been out of the school and off on his travelling far and wide and sinking himself into the Dark Arts by 1945.

What if the reason LV is so anxious to get rid of DD is because Grindelwald was an ancestor of his, and, by the same token, a descendent of Salazar Slytherin?  Riddle's maternal grandfather or great-grandfather, perhaps?  Riddle may not have been aware of this at the time he left school, or even when Grindelwald was defeated, but learned the information while "consorting with the very worst of our kind." [DD]  (CoS) If Riddle was around 17 when he finished school, his grandfather may have been around 50 and his great-grandfather around 70.  Give or take a few years, of course.  DD is currently around 150.  As wizards appear to have a different lifespan than men, Grindelwald at 70 would just be getting nicely into his stride.

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