Oh HBP, I miss you.

[valis2]

I gave my copy of HBP to my mom in late July of last year.

I have not seen it since.

Number of readings: 1.
Date of said reading: July 16th, 2005.

Can someone help me with three questions, because I can't remember stuff:

1) How old is Tom Riddle when Dumbledore first visits him in the orphanage? If it's while he's an infant, how old is Tom when Ddore visits him next?

2) The cave incident...do they say how old he is when this occurs? And are the two children killed, or just scared? Any particulars?

3) He has "souvenirs", I think, or things he's stolen. What are they?

This will be big help. Thank you in advance. Yes, it's for bad poetry.

ETA: A GIANT THANK YOU to cantabile!! You are awesome.

She must really want to read bad poetry!

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[cantabile.livejournal.com]

Found it! And here it is in all its wholesome glory:

Harry could smell salt and hear rushing waves; a light, chilly breeze ruffled his hair as he looked out at moonlit sea and star-strewn sky. He was standing upon a high outcrop of dark rock, water foaming and churning below him. He glanced over his shoulder. A towering cliff stood behind them, a sheer drop, black and faceless. A few large chunks of rock, such as the one upon which Harry and Dumbledore were standing, looked as though they had broken away from the cliff face at some point in the past. It was a bleak, harsh view, the sea and the rock unrelieved by any tree or sweep of grass or sand.

"What do you think?" asked Dumbledore. He might have been asking Harry's opinion on whether it was a good site for a picnic.

"They brought the kids from the orphanage here?" asked Harry, who could not imagine a less cozy spot for a day trip.

"Not here, precisely," said Dumbledore. "There is a village of sorts about halfway along the cliffs behind us. I believe the orphans were taken there for a little sea air and a view of the waves. No, I think it was only ever Tom Riddle and his youthful victims who visited this spot. No Muggle could reach this rock unless they were uncommonly good mountaineers, and boats cannot approach the cliffs, the waters around them are too dangerous. I imagine that Riddle climbed down; magic would have served better than ropes. And he brought two small children with him, probably for the pleasure of terrorizing them. I think the journey alone would have done it, don't you?"