[HPforGrownups] Re: How did he know?

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 146836

 
In a message dated 1/21/2006 5:00:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
babyhrndz at yahoo.com writes:

Tom  Riddle had 'followers' at that time as well, even DD remembers them and 
they  became the DEs. TR(LV) could have sent them on to look. IMO, it was 
LMalfoy.  He did have the diary (CoS), even though he did not know entirely what 
it was,  he knew it existed and would do some damage.


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Sherrie here:
 
Riddle began looking into the creation of Horcruxes while still at school -  
some fifty years plus back, as the stories stand.  Lucius is established as  
being 41 in OotP, so 42 in HBP - therefore, he couldn't have assisted Riddle in 
 his initial research.
 
My personal theory is that the question to Slughorn brought the information  
to the front of Slughorn's mind, when Riddle simply plucked it.  Or, if not  
the spell itself, then the information on where to FIND the spell.
 
Sherrie


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