Voldemort's Recruitment/School year system in the UK

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 128779

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sass <scolere at g...> wrote:

> Draco tells Harry & Ron (when they've Polyjuiced themselves into
> Crabbe and Goyle in CoS) that Lucius was at school when the Chamber
> was opened the first time - and we know that Tom Riddle (aka LV) was
> at school when he opened it for the first time - which puts Lucius 
> at about the same age as LV - I'm betting Lucius was one of LV's 
> friends and that's how he got recruited...

You have your quotes confused.  Draco says: "Of course, it was fifty 
years ago, so it was before his time, but he knows all about it, and 
he says that it was all kept quiet and it'll look suspicious if I 
know too much about it."

And, per OotP canon, Lucius Malfoy is 41.  Not a contemporary of Tom 
Riddle at all.  It's an open question, and one of the most 
interesting ones, how and when the DEs got recruited.  Were there 
people at Hogwarts openly sympathetic to the cause?  Was the 
political situation affecting the relationships of the people at 
school to each other?  Signs point to yes, given the "precious little 
to celebrate for the past 11 years" in PS/SS.

-Nora gets back to trying to finish paper #2 out of 3