CHAPDISC: HBP17, A Sluggish Memory

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No: HPFGUIDX 153123

---  AnitaKH <anita_hillin...> wrote:
>
> CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 
Chapter 17, A Sluggish Memory
> ... 
>   Dumbledore presses on, having one more memory to explore that 
evening.  He produces another phial, ... Landing in the memory, 
Harry instantly recognizes a much younger Slughorn, ...  Harry sees 
Tom Riddle among the students gathered, and he notices Tom was 
wearing the Gaunt ring.  ...
>    
>   ...  Just as ... the party was breaking up.  Tom lagged behind 
to ask Slughorn about Horcruxes.  Again, the fog descends and Harry 
hears Slughorn speak through the fog, denying any knowledge of 
Horcruxes and ordering Tom out of the room.  

~aussie~
Times change. Laws change. (eg, in GOF, flying carpets were legal 
before but illegal now) So if Tom has the ring at this age, where 
did he learn the Unforgiveable curse from? 

Was it part of school study schedule then as it still may be in 
Durmstrang now? It could have been taught the same way Barty Couch 
Jr / Mad Eye Moody impersonator did. 

The MOM may have passed a law since Tom's time making then 
Unforgivable instead of just Dark Curses.

Or would Nocturn Alley have books on "Unforgivable Curses: 101" 
and "The Idiot's Guide to Horcrux"

After all, he didn't want DD with him when he first explored Diagon 
Alley to buy his school books.

Aussie