Voldemort and the "Tin Woodman Paradox" (was: Nagini/basilisk/snake ramblings)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 353

At 04:18 AM 8/27/00 +0000, badgers' kin wrote:
>It seems that since he had already assumed *some* kind of physical
>form, a form indistinguishable from a real human form, Ginny's
>survival seems unnecessary to enable this; the important act was the
>stabbing of the diary within which his *memory* lived.

I've been puzzled about this too -- Is the memory of TR, once
it's become external to the diary an "extension" of Voldy,or just
a "hologram" of his former self?  Or are they *both* Voldy, leaving
the question of which is the *real* Lord V.?  (I call this the "Tin
Woodman Paradox", because a similar problem exists in the Oz
books when the Tin Woodman encounters his own severed head
and has a conversation with it -- If his tin self and flesh self are both
still sentient, then which of them is *really* the original guy?)



                                                 -- Dave