[HPforGrownups] Adopted!Harry_is_Really._TTTR

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asandhp <steinber at inter.net.il> wrote: The only conclusion worthy of HP would be for Harry to be Voldemort himself. Not his son or father or brother; that 
is Star Wars. Harry is Tom Riddle, time-turned to the 1980's as an 
infant and adopted by Lily and James.


I love this theory.  My head almost exploded. 

 

But tell me if I’ve got this right:  Essentially what you’re saying is that Tom Riddle was born in 1927 (so says the brilliant HP Lexicon), became Voldemort in about 1945, then went back to 1927 with the time turner, grabbed himself (hee hee) from the muggle orphanage and whisked his infant self to 1980, where he somehow lost track of himself/kidnapped and was adopted by L&J?  Then, about a year later, he tracked himself down, found out from Peter Pettigrew where infant!Voldemort was and tried to kill himself, but couldn’t.  Hmmm.  

 

If that’s true, why didn’t Voldemort just go back to 1927 and kill infant!Tom Riddle, instead of hauling his own ass through the space time continuum to 1980?  Why bother?  There’s got to be some negative repercussions for not only traveling back and forth through time to steal yourself, but also taking another one of your selves along, too.  I don’t think there isn’t any motivation for Voldemort to bring his infant self to 1980, especially if the only point was to achieve immortality and god-like status by killing “his beginning.”


hmvick

 
Also:  Based on this theory, if Voldemort would have killed infant!Voldemort, or infant!Harry, or even grown-up!Harry, could it be considered as a double suicide?  Homicide?  Matricide?  Infanticide?  Oh geez.