Tom Riddle's Diary/Voldemort's Risen Consciousness

arabella at sugarquill.com arabella at sugarquill.com
Wed Apr 11 18:43:03 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 16403

I apologize in advance if this is a repeat of a previously discussed 
topic.  I searched the archive and couldn't find it, but my history 
with computers tells me I may have done something wrong... in any 
case.

My questions: 1)What is Tom Riddle's knowledge of future events?  
2)Does Voldemort, newly risen, know anything about what happened with 
the Tom Riddle diary and Ginny Weasley?  Does he have any memory of 
the Chamber of Secrets or are the two consciousnesses unconnected? 

These are my deductions so far:

1) On Tom Riddle's Diary: I'm under the impression that before Ginny 
opened the diary, it had been "sleeping" since Tom shut it, which was 
after the CoS events 50 years before.  So I'm assuming that Tom, in 
his diary state, knows nothing about the fact that he eventually grew 
to become Lord Voldemort.  We know he already had his new name picked 
out, because he spells it in the air for Harry during the scene in the 
Chamber.  But that doesn't mean Tom knew that he'd grow to be as 
successfully evil as he actually did. I'm thinking that Ginny gives 
him all the information he has about a)The Dark Lord he became b)The 
war he creates c)Harry Potter and the downfall of Voldemort.  Ginny is 
the person who fills in Tom's future/history for him and spends much 
of her time hero-worshipping Harry's defeats of the Dark Lord. This is 
how Tom understands what Harry Potter is to him, and it's why Tom is 
so particularly eager to kill Harry at the end of the book. 

2) On Voldemort at present:  I don't think he has any recollection of 
the Chamber of Secrets.  I think that his phantom diary self is wholly 
unconnected from his spirit self (the one that barely existed and went 
around possessing Quirrell, etc.) The reason I think this is because 
Voldemort says nothing about CoS in the Death Eaters chapter of GoF, 
when he's detailing the years of his demise and the events of his rise 
to new power.  He talks about Quirrell and the Sorcerer's/ 
Philosopher's Stone - he talks about finding Wormtail.  He skips the 
Chamber altogether.  Also, in the same scene, Voldemort berates Lucius 
Malfoy for doing nothing to find him and for running from the Dark 
Mark.  I don't think Voldemort is aware that Lucius planted the Riddle 
diary in among Ginny's things.  

Anybody think differently?  Have I missed evidence somewhere?






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