Grindelwald and Tom Riddle, and end of LV

[justcarol67]

Julie wrote:
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> Can Tom Riddle be redeemed and LV destroyed? Crucify the old man, so 
> to speak. Given JKR's perspective, I think this is a plausible 
> hypothesis for an ending. Overcoming hate with love, evil with 
> good, power with meekness, obsession with humility.


Carol responds:
Based on JKR's recent addition to the FAQ, I think she sees Voldemort
and Tom Riddle as the same person (though perhaps TR *evolved* into
Voldemort through murder and transformation). And the TR element of
Voldemort that we see in the graveyard scene in GoF seems as
irredeemably evil as the Voldemort inside Quirrell's head in SS/PS.

Supposing I'm wrong, though, and the Tom element can somehow be
separated out from the Voldemort element. It was Tom, not the
full-fledged Voldemort, who released the basilisk while he was still
in school (and did so again in memory form in CoS) and Tom who
murdered his father and grandparents in cold blood as a boy of about
seventeen--not to mention that he used an Unforgiveable curse three
times in order to do so.

How, under such circumstances, can he possibly be redeemed? I'm not
saying he can't. I'm just asking how it's possible. And how can the
Unforgiveable Curses be forgiveable?

Carol