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

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No: HPFGUIDX 118013


Kim wrote: 
><snip> ...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!<

Apollo replied:
>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.<

Kim asks again:
Somewhere, yes, but where?  Giving away my fervent belief in history, 
everything has to come from somewhere, even in the Wizarding World...