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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