Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

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No: HPFGUIDX 109164

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> > Geoff:
> > In UK schools, the cut-off date for ages is 31st August. So 
anyone 
> > whose 11th birthday falls within that frame goes into the new 
First 
> > Year(modern Year 7). Hence, Harry is one of the youngest pupils 
in 
> > his year.
> > 
> > I nearly made the point in my last post that Riddle must have a 
> > birthday early in the school year, because if we accept that he 
was 
> > in the Fifth Year and 16 and the Chamber was opened in the autumn 
> > term of 1942 (awful lot of Boolean "ands" there [!]) then his 
16th 
> > birthday must have fallen early in his Fourth year making him one 
> of 
> > the oldest pupils.
> 
> Geoff:
> Whoops!
> 
> Correcting my own post. What I meant to say was that his 16th 
> birthday must have fallen early in his Fifth Year - theoretiacally 
he 
> could have been 16 as early as 01/09/42.

Snow:

Have to disagree with you Geoff. 

The diary could not be the same year as the opening of the Chamber if 
the Chamber was opened in autumn of `42 because Riddle wrote in it 
and showed Harry the setup of Hagrid half way through June. If the 
diary was from 1942 and the Chamber was opened in 1942 then Riddle 
would have to have written about the Chamber being opened in June 
before it was actually opened in autumn. From this I conclude that 
the diary was dated in 1943 after the event of the Chamber opening in 
autumn of '42 for Riddle to have written about the events of the 
Chamber in June. The diary being a 1943 date book, Riddle would had 
to have turned 16 at some point in this year. It is feasible that 
Riddle did not immediately, upon receiving the diary, preserve his 16-
year-old self. Riddle could have been in his 6th year in 1943 when he 
thought of preserving himself. Riddle's 6th school year would then 
be `43/'44 making his 7th school year `44/'45.