Tom Riddle - Riddle murders

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No: HPFGUIDX 105534

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lee Moyo <donpietro69 at y...> 
wrote:
> Wanda Sherratt wrote:
> > How old was Tom Riddle when the Riddles were murdered?  Did it 
> happen
> > before the basilisk incident in Cos, or after?  I'm not quite sure
> > which came first, and if Tom was still a student when his father 
> and
> > grandparents were killed, or had just graduated.
> 
> dawnflight1984 <victoria at m...> wrote:
> I wonder if it really matters whether Tom was still a student or 
has 
> already graduated. One thing was for sure, he wasn't an underaged 
> wizard at that time, meaning he's probably at least 17 then and he 
> murdered them before he was Voldemort. Right?
> 
> Lee:
> 
> That is true but as DD pointed out, after Tom left School he 
disappeared  for a long time and went many different changes before 
he came out calling him self LV. So he could have done it any time 
between that period.

I don't have the book here with me, but I think I recall something 
about him being 16, but it could have been later.  As for being 
called LV, didn't Diary Riddle explain "I am Lord Voldemort" neing an 
anagram to Harry?