CoS - The Very Secret Diary

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 95491

Yep, I'm re-reading CoS again!
A thing that struck me this time was that Tom Riddle's diary doesn't 
lie. It very carefully phrases things, but doesn't tell any untruth 
(as far as we know so far). It came to me because Riddle had to show 
Harry the bit about Hagrid and the Acromantula and let him draw his 
own conclusions, he couldn't lie and tell Harry 'Hagrid opened the 
Chamber.' There's a bit in the diary where Tom says 'I caught the 
person who'd opened the Chamber and he was expelled.' so it seems to 
imply Hagrid, but later in the same para, he says, '... the one who 
had the power to release it was not imprisoned.', and Hagrid was. So 
Tom may actually be referring to himself in the first part, using 
the 'caught' as in, 'I then became Lord Voldemort', and perhaps he 
was expelled? 
The careful phrasing made it seem like it was a condition or rule of 
the object that one couldn't lie?

Another other thing about this chapter is that Harry's using red ink -
 this surely isn't standard practice? 'All his other books were 
drenched in scarlet ink ... he pulled a new bottle out of his bedside 
cabinet...'
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria