Tom Riddle and history - 1937 to 1944 - The Hogwarts Years

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 191057



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miner" <dragonkeeper012003 at ...> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if I have the subject line right but there was something
> I thinking about. I was thinking about Tom Riddle and his ideas about
> muggles and although we get a good history of Tom in the Half Blood
> Prince, still I wonder if Tom Riddle went to Hogwarts around the time
> of World War II?
> 
> Miner
>


Here is probably the most authoritative resource on all things Harry Potter -

The HP Lexicon -

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/index-2.html

And specifically on Tom Riddle -

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/riddle.html

According to this -

" Tom Marvolo Riddle, Jr./Lord Voldemort:  Born of a witch mother (Merope Gaunt) and a Muggle father (Tom Riddle, Sr.) on December 31, 1926 [year is approximate]. ..." 

Kids typically start school at age 11, to 1926 + 11 = 1937, and they go to school for 7 years, so 1937 + 7 = 1944. 

That very much covers Hitler's rise to power and fall from grace.

Steve/bboyminn