CoS chapters 17-18 post DH look

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181355

> Mike:
> I always thought DD started a good while ago. I'm thinking during 
> Voldemort's first reign of terror. Though the oldest memory, Bob 
> Ogden's, happened around 1925 and dear old Bob could have still 
> been alive in 1992, after the Diary Horcrux. 

zgirnius:
I believe that he started right after CoS. Hokey is described by him 
as 'a very old House Elf', when Harry asks whose memory he is about to 
view. I took that to mean, that at the time Dumbledore got the memory, 
she was very old. Which, if she had been an adult in the late 1940's, 
would be quite right in 1992. Bob Ogden was a Ministry employee whose 
physical description does not suggest any particular age. He could 
easily be younger than Dumbledore (who was 44 in 1925).

The most probematical one for my view is Morfin's. Tom was still in 
school when he killed Morfin for the ring, and Morfin was sentenced to 
Azkaban for the murder of the Riddles, which Tom committed the same 
night. While Morfin is quite a bit younger than Albus, he would have to 
have surviuved nearly 50 years in Azkaban.