Harry saved from AK by his mother

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 42313

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> Grace Saalsaa wrote:
> But!  Sure, Voldy tells the DE this - but he heard it from Harry 
> when he was Tom Riddle, down in the Chamber of Secrets.

and Grey Wolf responded:

> Voldemort could not have heard it from Harry down in the Chamber of 
> Secrets: he was not there; don't confuse Diary!Riddle with 
> Voldemort!Riddle. They're two different beings, and the first was 
> destroyed at the end of book 2, while the second one was licking 
> his wounds in an albanian forest. 

now me:

Help!  This makes me very confused, probably because I'm a newbie, 
but how can Diary!Riddle be a "different being" than Voldemort!
Riddle?  I always thought of them as one and the same, since in CoS, 
Voldemort is only spirit, and has to embody another being in order to 
be seen be others.  I thought of Diary!Riddle as a way Voldemort's 
spirit was able to be seen to others, through the memory of Riddle.  
When Harry plunges the basilisk fang into the diary and Riddle 
disappears, I thought that Voldemort's spirit then returned to 
Albania.

Plus, while JKR references him as "Riddle" during the encounter with 
Harry in the Chamber, there is one instance where she 
writes "*Voldemort* was laughing."  Just a typo?  Or is she trying to 
tell us that Riddle's memory really was embodying Voldemort?

Any clarification would be most appreciated!

Cheers,
Phyllis