Harry/Riddle

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 119098


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:

Inge:
> I've been away from this great list for a long time - but today I 
had 
> (another) crazy thought that I want to throw in here.
> 
> Can Harry and Tom Riddle be one and the same - for some yet unknown 
> reason living in different times? Is there any way? And what would 
it 
> mean if so?

Geoff:
This throws up an interesting thought. If that were so, then when 
Harry meets his older persona in COS, why isn't Tom Riddle totally 
identical in looks to a slightly older Harry?

And, after all, Diary!Riddle says:

"I can see now - there is nothing special about you, after all. I 
wondered, you see. Because there are strange likenesses between us, 
Harry Potter. Even you must have noticed. Both half-bloods, raised by 
Muggles. Probably the only two Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since 
the great Slytherin himself. We even look something alike..."

(COS "the Heir of Slytherin" p.233 UK edition)

Similar.... but not identical....