A dastardly Voldy plan - was: Re: Lockets

[Jen Reese]

Dung:
> Then, yesterday afternoon (while re-sealing the bath) I thought: 
> wait a moment... Sluggy didn't tell Tom about the spell needed to 
> make a Horseblanket, so where did Tom find out? 
> 
> How about Grindelwald? Could Karkaroff have also been a Grindy 
> acolyte? Is that how he and Tom met? I should think Grindy would 
> have been somewhat suspicious of Tom, and, perhaps through 
> legilimency picked up the memory of Amy and Dennis in the cave. 
> (This would undoubtedly have angered Tom no end, so he'd have 
> dedicated himself to becoming the best Legilimens in the world). 
> Thus, it could have been Grindy who let it slip to Karkaroff 
before 
> DD nobbled him.

Jen: JKR was mum about Grindelwald in that last interview, guess  
we're finally due for some answers. I'm not sure about the Karkaroff 
connection; I'm still figuring on Amy Benson as either a mistaken 
identity character (one we already know) or a new character we'll 
meet. But Grindelwald must be the Horcrux connection.

Even if Tom and Grindelwald never met directly, it's pretty clear GW 
was able to form at least one Horcrux before being defeated by 
Dumbledore. I think that's who DD refers to when he said 'no wizard 
has ever done more than tear his soul in two' (chap. 23. p. 500) and 
why he adamantly refuses for Horcrux information to be available at 
Hogwarts. Also, it explains how Dumbledore knew to suspect Voldemort 
of making Horcruxes, because he's seen it happen before.

If the Riddle murders happened the summer after Tom's fifth year (no 
other option seems to fit with the canon we have now, even though 
the Lexicon places it after the sixth year), then he had two years 
to learn form Grindelwald, until 1945.

I wonder if word of the GW Horcrux somehow leaked out in the WW 
underworld? Was Riddle already hanging around Knockturn Alley and 
that's how he found Borgin & Burkes? He must have been, during 
summers if nothing else. But Riddle *had* to know about the tunnels 
at Hogwarts too, if he discovered more secrets about the castle than 
anyone else.

So what do you think Dung, was Riddle an apprentice or did he 
secretly discover GW's work on Horcruxes and learn that way? Somehow 
I can't see Loner!Tom admiring anyone else enough to apprentice with 
them. 

Jen, thinking Dung has a pretty cool job if she gets to think about 
HP while she's working.