Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 109542

> Geoff:
> Whoops!
> 
> Correcting my own post. What I meant to say was that his {Tom
Riddle's] 16th birthday must have fallen early in his Fifth Year -
theoretiacally he could have been 16 as early as 01/09/42.


Carol notes:
Or 09/01/42 for us Americans. September 1 either way. (01/09/42 looks
like January 9, 1942 from this side of the Atlantic, which could
confuse people trying to follow your argument.)

He does say that he was in his fifth year when the basilisk appeared
and that he preserved his sixteen-year-old self in the diary,
beginning in June of the same year he framed Hagrid, which I take to
be 1943 since Harry finds the diary in 1993. So my assumption is that
he had turned 16 by June 1943, but there's no need for a date as early
as September 1. In fact, most students would have turned 16 by the end
of their fifth year. Neville and Harry, with their July birthdays, are
exceptions.

Carol