Tom Riddle - Riddle murders

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 105544

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

> > 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?

I assume me must have been about 16, because the story of the Riddles
uses the same term used to describe the original Chamber of Secrets
incident: "fifty years ago".  I don't take that quite as literally as
some do, who reason that if Tom Riddle was a 15-year old student 50
years before Book 3, then he must have been 16 years old when the
incidents described in Book 4 took place, because it's one year later
in the series.  I take "fifty years ago" to be a bit of a vague
indication of time; in normal parlance, it could mean somewhere
between 48 and 53 years in the past.  That's why I'm not perfectly
sure about when Tom did what; there seems to have been a lot of
important activity in his life about 50 years ago, but the sequence
isn't perfectly clear.  He could have killed his parents the year
after he killed Myrtle, or even the same year, or perhaps several
years later, when he'd left school.

Wanda