[HPforGrownups] Tom Riddle and history

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191064

Miner:
> 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?

Bart:
Time to pull out one of my favorite things to say in this group:

"There are 3 kinds of people in this world. Those who can count, and 
those who can't." - J. K. Rowling

Although there have been a number of very good attempts to reason this 
out, matching timelines in the Potterverse to Ourverse timelines is kind 
of like figuring out how Dr. Watson received his war wound in the 
Sherlock Holmes novels. They tend not to match up.

Given that, the math shows that yes, Tom Riddle was in Hogwarts 50 years 
previously to the 1990's, so Muggletime (assuming that WWII did take 
place in the Muggle version of the Rowlingverse, as we have no 
indication that it did) does show that it was during WWII.

Bart