50 Years Old...

[Auria]

No: HPFGUIDX 135057

> Shaista said:
> > I thought that when Harry checked the date on the HBP potions
> > book that it was 50 years old... how can that be?  Snape could 
> > not have been around 50 years ago... is the book perhaps, 
> > secondhand?  
> 
> Bex:
> The book was originally Eileen Prince's passed on to her son.


On that theme,I rewatched the film of CoS and apparently it was 50 
years ago from when Harry opens the diary that the Chamber was 
opened.  At that time both Tom Riddle and Hagrid were at Hogwarts.  
So it seems that Tom Riddle was at school the same time as Eileen 
Prince, Snape's mother.  I wonder if that has any relevance somehow? 

Also, assuming both TR and Hagrid were in their teens at the time, 
that would now make their ages both in their 60s.  I never realised 
that Voldemort and Hagrid were that old! Anyone have any comments?

Rita