Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 109195

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> 
wrote:

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.

Geoff:
Working backwards, I've already postulated (in message 109027) that 
he was in the Lower Sixth in 1943/44 and the Upper Sixth in 1944/45. 
(By the way, the usual nomenclature for the Sixth Form is Lower Sixth 
and Upper Sixth covering the two years).

I think we may be getting confused with our "years". The diary could 
quite easily be the same /school/ year as the opening of the chamber -
 our theory being 1942/43 in which case he could still have a 1943 
diary which perhaps he got over the Christmas holiday. The only small 
hole this blows in my thinking is /when/ he turned 16 which isn't 
necessarily germane to the opening; whenever he had his birthday, we 
know that he was in the Fifth and the diary preserved his 16-year old 
self.