[HPforGrownups] Re: Copyediting Errors - Listed?

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 157191

Mike wrote:


> So Diary!Tom knows about his father abandonning his mother, and 
> Penseive!Tom found out this same thing (and got confirmation that 
> his father was a Muggle) just before he kills his father. Based on 
> this evidence, it does appear that Tom killed his father *before* 
> his fifth year. But, more importantly, it's canon. And unless 
> someone of authority tells us it was a mistake, we shouldn't be 
> assuming it was, no matter how well the alternate version plays. I 
> know JKR admits she's bad with math, and I agree she's no whiz with 
> time lines either. But, unless she comes out with a correction, like 
> she did with the GoF priori scene, we're stuck with canon.

> Mike

   KJ writes:

    While that is a logical assessment, it does not take into account 
that Tom Riddle also knew about Harry surviving at Godric's Hollow.  He 
was very curious about how Harry survived, which again, he would know 
nothing about as a sixteen year old memory. He explains to Harry, who 
had the same question, that Voldemort was his past, present, and future. 
  The thing that is interesting here is that the diary horcrux must have 
been one of the first ones made and yet it has the memories of a later 
date, which would indicate some kind of contact with the main soul piece 
which we haven't seen in the ring horcrux. So for this reason, I am more 
inclined to stay within the timeline presented, that Tom actually killed 
his father and grandfather after this date and before we saw him wearing 
the ring in Slughorn's memory.

KJ