CoS Plot...

[Darla]

No: HPFGUIDX 46606

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Richard Thorp <obby at b...> wrote:
How can the underlying plot of CoS make sense? I say this after a few
> assumptions, but reasonable ones, the main one being that Voldemort
> would not share power. Ever. With anyone. He's not the sort of evil
> overlord that would even want another version of himself taking 
over,
> I reckon, unless he was an integral part of that person...
> 
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  Good point, but the way I always thought of it is that he was 
*sixteen* (or roundabout that age, forgive me for not having my book 
available to check the exact age) when he created his diary self, and 
I believe Voldemort had enough of an ego even then to believe himself 
to be pretty great even at that age. We've all looked back and 
laughed at ourselves at times, but back when we *were* that age... he 
wouldn't be thinking that he'd been sharing power with his younger 
self because the only 'self' he could relate to was the sixteen year 
old boy in the diary.
  Darla.