A tunnel, a diary and a memory.....

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113600

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

Hannah:
> Lucius can't have had it for the entire 50 years.  In OoP (or is it 
> GoF?) a newspaper article gives his age as 41.  He might be fibbing 
> a bit, but I doubt he's much older than 45.  Even if he's old 
enough 
> to have been alive when Riddle made the diary, he would only have 
> been a baby/ small child, and not to be entrusted with it.  Could 
> Riddle have given it to Lucius' father?

Geoff:
Thanks for that. I knew I'd seen a reference to Lucius' age and spent 
quite a bit of today trying to find it and then wondered whether I'd 
read it in fanfic. I'm sure it's in a Daily Prophet article and I 
would suspect OOTP since there are more articles quoted.

Geoff
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