Who taught Voldemort?

[greenfirespike]

No: HPFGUIDX 130607



> > > Who taugh Voldemort the AK and Cruciatus Curse when he 
graduated 
> > > out from Hogwarts?
> > > 
> > > I think the AK curse is much older than Voldie himself. And I 
> > > don't think they taught unforgivable curses at Hogwarts, unless 
> > > the headmaster and some teachers were into Dark Arts... Or his 
> > > friends at Hogwarts, into the Dark Arts, taught him between 
> > > classes (despite he was incredibly talented to begin to call 
> > > himself as "Lord Voldemort"), since he was locked into a muggle 
> > > orphanage while holidays until he became adult?
> > 
> > 
> > We know that in the restricted section of the library they keep 
> > books of advanced Dark Arts that are only used by students in 
> > advanced Defense against the Dark Arts. And Fake Moody states the 
> > Unforgivable are discussed/taught, at least their effect and 
> > probably theory, in the 6th year. If a student was good at 
> > experimenting they could probably master the Unforgivable quite 
> > easily...Harry has no experience but he manages to shut Bella up 
> > pretty quick. Imagine if he had practiced on spiders for a month 
> > before hand.
> > 
> > And then there is Knockturn Alley which is devoted to the Dark 
Arts 
> > and clearly open to the wizarding public since it is the Weasley 
> > parents and not the law that keeps the Twins and Ron out.
> > 
> > There are probably tons of ways for old Voldemort to get his hand
> on 
> > material...he is supposed to be the most brilliant student to 
ever 
> > go to Hogwarts (and both Hermione and Harry know spells well 
above 
> > there grade level).
> > 
> > "quick_silver71"
> 
> 
> Sue:
> 
> All this and also, don't forget that Riddle was a Slytherin and 
there
> would have been kids 
> who, like the young Snape, already knew curses before they arrived. 
I
> mean, if he did, why 
> not some before his time? I bet there was a Malfoy at Hogwarts
> (Lucius's Dad?) and we 
> know that they collect Dark Arts goodies, and the dreadful Black
> family (before they 
> produced that white sheep Sirius). He could easily have learned
> curses from his fellow 
> Slytherins, as well as from the restricted books, which he might 
have
> been allowed to look 
> at because he was such a nice boy, so good at his work, and good at
> sucking up to the 
> librarian. (I'm a school librarian myself and I know how I love it
> when a student enjoys 
> reading). "I know I'm only in fifth year, Madam X, but I really want
> to be an auror and I 
> need to have a look at some of those books to get into sixth year
> DADA..."



Greenfirespike says:

This is my favorite non-Harry related topic.  How did LV become LV?  
How did he get an army of DE's?  How many DE's?  Who are they?  Sadly 
we have little information about this, and I often find my thoughts 
wandering to a hopefully soon to be published chapter 
entitled "Creating the Darkest of Wizards, and the Darkest of 
Armies."  

Alas, I doubt this will ever come true.  What we do know is this
TR 
is extraordinary bright, and cunning, as he figured out how to open 
the Chamber of Secrets as managed to pin the entire blame on Hagrid.  
We know that at the end of his Hogwarts career, TR's close friends 
(who are these people!!!) began to call him LV.

We know that after graduation, TR/early!LV began to travel far and 
wide, chilling with the worst kind of dark wizards.  Thus we can 
assume that he knowledge is from his Hogwarts schooling, and teaching 
from other dark wizards.  

I highly doubt that one witch/wizard alone taught LV a good amount of 
what he knows.  Grindelwald is really the only person we know of that 
could be the only tutor for LV.  We know that he was defeated by DD 
in 1945, and he was the darkest wizard for a century (or something 
close).  But is seems to me that Grindelwald was defeated about the 
time TR graduates from Hogwarts (thanks to the Lexicon timeline).  
Thus making a tutoring by Grindelwald unlikely.  

GFS