Riddle and Grindelwald in 1945

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 109559

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> > 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:
> 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.)


Geoff:
The flip side of that argument is that 09/01/42 looks like 9th 
January 1942 from /our/ side of the pond which could confuse 
people.....

Carol;
> 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. 


Geoff:
All students will have turned 16 by the end of their Fifth Year - see 
my comment in message 109294.