Tom Riddle - Riddle murders

[zoe0coll]

No: HPFGUIDX 105561

> Wanda Sherratt wrote:
> > How old was Tom Riddle when the Riddles were murdered?  > 

 I think we can quite easily work out Tom Riddle's age when he 
murdered his parternal family, if we take the info in the canon as 
completely accurate.

We know that fifty years before COS Tom Riddle was 16 - he says 
(sorry can't find my book) something like "I preserved my 16 year old 
self (in the diary).  GOF is 2 years after COS and in the opening 
chapter it states "fifty years before..... to find all three Riddles 
dead (pg 7 Uk ed - Bloomsbury) therefore in Cos 50 yrs ago Tom is 16 
and 2 years later in GOF 50 yrs ago tom is 18. This means he would 
have just left school, or at least been in his final year at 
hogwarts, whichever, he would be of age to use magic outside of 
school. 

Zoe C