Who is Riddle to Harry?

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 45622

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> 
> When I first read it (CoS) I thought that it was someone he had 
known, when
> he was young, perhaps another boy. I'm not sure if it's possible 
that Harry
> got to know Tom Riddle after he banished his soul, or whatever he 
did, until
> he got the diary in CoS. And, if my memory serves me correctly, 
the entire
> Riddle family was destroyed, and that there was no one left behind 
except
> the Gardener, Frank.
> 
> I'm now on a blank as to how Riddle could seem so familiar to 
Harry...
> 
> -Jonathan (putting in his eight knuts, three sickles and a 
galleon. Also


I thought when I first read it that the implication is that the 
Diary is putting a spell on whoever has it. Harry thinks he ought to 
throw it away, but can't. Harry knows the pages are blank, but keeps 
looking through the Diary. He's sure he's never heard of T.M. 
Riddle, but the name seems familiar somehow.

So the spell is 'you shouldn't throw me away, you want to read me, 
you want to find out more about Tom Riddle (who is someone you know, 
anyway, quite safe, you used to know me...)

Pip
> wondering the answer to the question, 'Why is Riddle so familiar 
to Harry?')