Harry/Riddle

[Inge]

No: HPFGUIDX 119104


Inge:
In COS when Harry meets Tom, Harry is 12 and Tom is 16 (or close). 
They can not physically (yet) look identical..... let's see what 
Harry looks like in book 6. Ginny might recognize him as Tom..... 
Just a thought.

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Geoff:
but he's not got glasses or a scar.... Again, as he tells Dippet, he 
lives in a Muggel orphanage. Has Harry gone back in time? How can he 
have been in Tom's situation and the Dursleys as well? I don't 
personally buy it...
As Miles O'Brien remarks in ST:DS9, "I hate temporal mechanics!"

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Inge once again:
Im not asking for anyone to buy this *theory* - I just thought that 
maybe somebody had other *clues* that might point in the direction 
that Harry and Tom are one and the same.

You are quite right that Tom doesn't wear glasses and doesn't have a 
scar. For them to be one and the same he doesn't have to.
We don't know why Harry wears glasses. Could be caused by something 
that happened when Tom tried to AK him. The scar is obvious - we know 
where that comes from.

Im not meaning to say that Harry and Tom live the same life over - Im 
thinking more in lines of TimeTurning - but then again not quite. 
Something similar.

What I was trying to say in my first post was that if Harry is Tom 
Riddle (time-turned or something the like) - then Dumbledore knows 
and tries everything he can to guide Harry in the right direction so 
that he will not turn out to become Voldemort over again.

If Harry manages to remain *good* - then there will be no future *bad 
Voldemort*. Voldemort will 'vanish' - into thin air maybe....
Voldemort (not Riddle)knows this, too, and that is why he needs to 
destroy Harry - because if he doesn't that will mean a natural 
destruction of Voldemort himself.
I wish I could explain myself in better words - but as I said 
earlier - Im not even quite sure myself what Im getting at here.... 
only that it makes sense in my head ;-)