Flint?

[Jen Reese]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "constancevigilance" 
<constancevigilance at y...> wrote:
> I'm trying to put together a timeline of when horcruxes were made 
> and with which murders they might be associated. I think I've 
> encountered a problem in the Riddle murder timeline.

Jen: Steve made mention on HPFGU, before Accio, that he was looking 
over the Riddle timeline given the new information in HBP. Don't 
know if he's updated it yet, or plans to.

>From new canon, it looks like Tom murdered the Riddles in the 
summmer between his fifth year and sixth year. We know he opened the 
COS during his fifth year, and Tom turned 16 during that year. Then 
DD said: "In the summer of his sixteenth year, he left the orphanage 
to which he returned annually, and set off to find his Gaunt 
relatives." (chap. 17, p. 363, US) So that would be the summer 
between fifth and sixth years.

The discussion with Slughorn followed, during the sixth year, when 
Tom was 16 going on 17. Slughorn refers to Tom as a prefect. So the 
murders had to be in the summer before a prefect year and not his 
head boy year.


CV:
> Tom creates the diary using his 16-year-old self. Presumably he
> was actually 16 when he created it and it is likely that he used
> the murder of Myrtle for that horcrux.

Jen: I don't think Myrtle was the murder. ;) For one she's not 
significant to Tom, he doesn't even mention her when he talks with 
Harry in the COS. For another it was more a case of negligent 
homicide, with Myrtle being unfortunately at the wrong place at the 
wrong time.

We know he infused the diary with his 16-year old self after opening 
the chamber; what we don't know is if the diary Horcrux was made 
then. I'm thinking that Tom *did* want to know more from Slughorn 
about the process, but gave up on it when Slughorn appeared 
completely agahst.

So by sixth year, Riddle has the ring and the diary, but no 
Horcruxes. Possibly he learns the process during his seventh year, 
from Grindelwald as people have suggested, or maybe Horcruxes were 
behind his interest in working at Borgin & Burkes, where he hoped to 
pick up the information in Knockturn Alley. Either way, by the time 
he visits Hepzibah, his looks have started to change very subtly, 
with the red eyes as the giveaway that he's formed at least one 
Horcrux.

Jen