The Riddles' Murders (WAS: The only one he ever feared?

[apollovibes]

No: HPFGUIDX 118004


> 
> Kim replies:
> I see what you're saying, but I was wondering specifically *who* 
> taught young Tom the Unforgiveable Curses?  Not that I really have 
> any idea myself.  Learning AKs, etc. would seem to require more
than 
> looking in a book, even for a gifted student.  And at Hogwarts at 
> least, these curses are pretty much forbidden, aren't they, despite 
> the fact that Moody!Crouch taught them in GoF?  So maybe learning 
> Unforgiveables was part of an "underground movement" among the bad 
> students (bad, as in mean and nasty), similar to the way "the 
> Marauders" had to learn how to become animagi without the knowledge 
> of their professors.  But studying Unforgiveable Curses on one's
own 
> would have to be kept even more hushed up than studying animagus 
> transfigurations, because of the shear illegality of
Unforgiveables.  
> Maybe TR and friends found outside help in their studies from 
> unsavory types, whoever they may have been.  Something to ponder 
> anyway! 
> 

Assuming the Moody!Crouch was telling the truth - Riddle would have
learned about them in his 6th year (depending on how powerful
Grindelwald [sp?] was and with WW2 it wouldn't surprise me if they
were taught about how to react to such encounters - much like Harry
and Co. did).  

On top of that as well as the amount of Riddle possessed and his large
amount of research (figuring out his ancestry, diary, etc), he was
quite ahead of the rest of his class, even Dumbledore says so.  And if
they weren't taught anything about them, I'm sure Riddle would have
come across it somewhere.