Voldemort's transformation (Was: Foreshadowing? Two Places to Hide Horcruxes

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 136201

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
><snip> 
> After framing Hagrid and creating the diary as a kind of amateur
> pseudo-Horcrux, he leaves Hogwarts for the summer, kills his father
> and grandparents, and comes back with the object that he intends to
> make into his first real Horcrux, the ring. He does not yet know 
how
> to do it, or even exactly what a Horcrux is, and the information
> Slughorn gives him, though helpful, is not sufficient to enable 
him to
> make one. Nor, as we know from Hermione's efforts, is this 
information
> available at Hogwarts. So, as you say, he needed a mentor. We don't
> see Tom during his seventh year at Hogwarts, but it could be that 
he
> used the summer between his sixth and seventh years to visit
> Grindelwald (surely this is the reason Grindelwald has been 
mentioned
> in the earlier books?) and create his first real Horcrux.


Cynnie36:

I think its certain that Grindelwald gave Tom the Horcrux 
information. From the Mugglenet site JKR interview, this is the 
response that JKR gave when asked if Grindlewald was dead (yes) and 
is he important (she went quiet then answered very carefully :)


JKR: I'm going to tell you as much as I told someone earlier who 
asked me. You know Owen who won the [UK television] competition to 
interview me? He asked about Grindelwald [pronounced "Grindelvald" 
HMM
]. He said, "Is it coincidence that he died in 1945," and I said 
no. It amuses me to make allusions to things that were happening in 
the Muggle world, so my feeling would be that while there's a global 
Muggle war going on, there's also a global wizarding war going 
on.<end>

So Grindlewald died in 1945--does that fit into the Tom Riddle -
Mentor!Gindlewald theory? Teaching Tom Riddle about how to make 
Horcruxes would definitely be high on the list for Dumbledore to 
want to defeat him--then go back to Hogwarts and scour the place for 
this information to keep other students from being curious, even 
forbidding them to discuss it.  Perhaps Tom even witnessed this 
defeat, learning firsthand just how powerful DD was.