[HPforGrownups] The Summer of his 16th Year

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 157341

Steve wrote:

> One small point I will quibble with though - see items 
> 6 and 7 below -
> 
> 6. Tom asks Slughorn about Horcruxes, clearly after the 
> Riddle murders because he's wearing the ring.
> 
> 7. Tom makes the diary, already a "powerful magical object," 
> and the ring into Horcruxes.
> 
> While not stated, it is implied that 7 immediately follows 
> 6. We don't actually know the time span between them. Yes, 
> Slughorn gives Tom some basic information about Horcruxes, 
> but Tom needs to research the subject for a while since it 
> seems to be information that the wizard world in not eager 
> to have divilged, and not an easy task to perform.
> 
> I don't think the Ring and Diary were made Horcruxes until 
> a few years at best after Tom left school. 
> 
> Again, Carol doesn't specifically say one occurs immediately 
> after the other, but I think it is important to the time line 
> to understand that there is likely a significant amount of 
> time between item 6 and 7.
> 
> Just a few thoughts.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn

  KJ writes:

    I was in agreement with this for a while, and considered that 
Voldemort might have made contact with Grindlwald prior to making his 
first horcruxes.  Unfortunately, he was already showing red flashes in 
his eyes in the cup and locket memory. He was working for B&B at that 
time and it must have been within the first two years after leaving 
school. He could have made his first, the diary, as early as his seventh 
year and simply took it with him when he left. The second, the ring had 
much stronger protections around it and showed more skill in the making. 
When he returned to Hogwarts after a ten year period, he was still 
recognizable but no longer handsome, and by the time he had been in 
power for eleven years following that, he looked like a snake. It makes 
it hard to judge how many horcruxes he made during which particular time 
period.

KJ