[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort's transformation (Was: Foreshadowing? Two Places to Hide Horcruxes

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 136258

mt3t3l1 wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Merrylinks

Kathy writes:

     If Riddle learned how to make horcruxes from Grindelwald, this 
would also make that a significant event in Tom's life.  It would also 
that be possible that Riddle killed Grindelwald (the timing of G's death 
seems significant). Is there any item in the books that belonged to 
Grindelwald? Or would Grindelwald's death be used to make the second 
horcrux. From the timing in the book, Tom had killed before he learned 
how to make horcruxes, so it seems to me that the making of one does not 
have to happen at the time of the death.
KJ