[HPforGrownups] Re: Copyediting Errors - Listed?

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 157264

Mike wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eddie" <harryp at ...> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Eddie:
>> It's possible that Diary!Riddle learned about Harry's survival from
>> Ginny, writing the info into the diary.  But no canon to support it.
>>
> 
> Mike:
> Yes, there is canon. Look up thread two posts from yours.

   KJ writes:

    Mike is absolutely right on this one, and from the conversation in 
CoS between Tom and Harry seems the most likely explanation.  I think it 
likely that the disparate times can be dealt with as well since Toms 
Birthday is on the first of the year.  JKR like the rest of us has a 
hard time with what age people were in what year because of the birthdays.

    I like, Carol feel, that the murders occurred after Myrtles death 
mainly because killing tends to become progressively easier with 
practice. Once he had been responsible for Myrtle's death, it would be 
easier to murder his relatives. He had already progressed as a child 
from killing small animals and torturing his schoolmates.

   If Myrtle was killed during his fifth year after January and the 
relatives murdered in the summer following his fifth year, it would 
still place him, at sixteen, asking for horcrux information early in his 
sixth year unless I am still confused. I do not see a date in canon for 
when he actually put his sixteen year old self into the diary. He could 
have done that, again, early in his sixth year, after the murders. There 
is also, no particular time given for when he actually turned the diary 
into a horcrux, as it was in his possession until his fall and then in 
the care of Lucius before it was returned to the school.

   JKR may have a reason for being so imprecise, although I can't think 
of what it could be.  Even worse, Dumbledore explains that now Harry 
knows what Tom was doing up until he was seventeen, and applying for the 
DADA position at eighteen, when by rights he should have turned nineteen 
in January.

KJ: wondering if I can knock a year or two off my age this way?