Hint in Cos

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 80320

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Zeynep Oner <kozmoz47 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> You might have heard that JK Rowling said that she had given a lot 
of clues in the second book. Ever since I heard that I have been 
reading the CoS, and I came up with a few mind boggling questions. 
Sorry if they have been discussed before;
> 

I have a question.  Any possible idea what this could mean?
"Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, why he didn't just throw 
Riddle's diary away...And while Harry was sure he had never heard the 
name T.M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, 
almost as though Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, 
and had half-forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends 
before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that."  CoS 234

(Is quoting against the rules?)  Anyway, just ran across that. 
Another sort of vague statement, the kind JKR throws out a lot, that 
I think might be important.  Why would the name mean ANYTHING to him, 
did he hear it in his babyhood or something? Was the diary just 
ensnaring him so that he couldn't throw it away?

Allie