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

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>> Jen wrote: 
<snip> 
> > Is it reasonable he [Tom Riddle] learned to make the Horcruxes 
immediately after 
> > that conversation with Slughorn? I'm starting to think not. Where 
> > would he find out while still at Hogwarts? Did he learn 
everything 
> > he needed to know that summer right after the murders? If so, it 
> > must not be terribly complex. Or he had a mentor. 

> Carol responds:
<snip> 
> 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. <snip>


I like your theory about Grindelwald. While I would not put it past 
Tom Riddle to kill multiple people until he figured out the way to 
make a Horcrux, getting the information from Grindelwald would be a 
very reasonable explanation for how he could have learned the 
technique relatively quickly after his conversation with Slughorn. It 
would also explain why JKR refused to answer key questions about 
Grindelwald in her post-HBP interview. Finally, Riddle left Hogwarts 
in 1945 and Grindelwald died in 1945, so the timelines overlap enough 
for this to be a plausible scenario.

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