[HPforGrownups] Re: How did he know?

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 146850

Patricia Hurley wrote:
> Adi wrote:  I was wondering about how Voldemort could have found about the spell
> to make horcruxes eventhough it is supposed to be such a scret and
> unmentionable subject. He found it even while he was at Hogwarts, so
> how could a teen, no matter how talented, find such a thing without
> arousing the interest of Dumbledore who was, as he says, has been
> watching Tom Riddle, all the time,during his school days?

   KJ writes:

      I'm thinking that Grindelwald had something to do with Riddle's 
education. I don't think that he made his first horcrux until after he 
left school. JKR said that Grindelwald's death was important and he is 
listed as having died in 1945, the year Riddle graduated. We do know 
that he had made at least one horcrux while working at B&B. He was 
trying to get someone to tell him how to do it while at Hogwarts.
KJ