[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry saved from AK by his mother

[Nguyen, Marc]

No: HPFGUIDX 42321

Phyllis writes:
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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!
>>>>>>

My reply:

The dairy!Riddle was just an intelligent "video" of Tom Riddle at age 16.
It's like if a friend died, and you found a video of him/her when they were
16. if you could interact with the video, they would have no knowledge of
you or anyhting that happened after they made the video. 

In the diary's case, Ginny was writing to it, and it could retain these bits
of information and use it. that's how diary!Riddle knew what happened to
him, it was told to him through Ginny.


Marc






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