[HPforGrownups] Re: Re-reading CoS : questions

[Saitaina]

No: HPFGUIDX 94851

Carol wrote:

<Maybe Tom Riddle *isn't* Voldemort, just as the shadow that comes out
of LV's wand *isn't* Cedric, and destroying Diary!Tom (in Percy's
view) has nothing to do with the return of the *real* Voldemort? In
any case, LV himself doesn't seem to know about the basilisk incident,
or at least he doesn't mention it in the graveyard scene. What's up?
any ideas?>

Well this is a rather confusing question as Tom Riddle IS Voldemort in the sense
that at one point in time they were the same person (and rather still are as that's
who Voldemort is under his assumed name) but the Tom that came out of the diary and
held Ginny?  No, they're two separate entities.

Tom Riddle himself said it, he was nothing but a memory preserved in diary pages.
An echo of what Voldemort was when he wrote it.  Too small a piece of Voldemort's
soul was trapped in the diary to be an actual connection and it was only with the
aid of Ginny that he gained any sort of energy to become form and substance.  The
only true link to anyone Tom had, was to Ginny, not his other half.  Though it does
beg the question, if Tom could siphon energy from Ginny and create form and
substance...could Voldemort have leached himself back out of the diary (or Tom
leeched Voldemort) and thus become one again?  (Well, if Ghostly Voldie could hold a
pen).



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