Possession

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 90628

> Kneasy wrote:
> > This is the way I'm tending to lean. Although Tom wandered the 
> > world for a number of years before making his bid for power, 
there is no evidence of anything out there that could change a 
spiteful and resentful adolescent into the Voldy!Monster. 

> kg wrote:
> The one flaw I see in your argument is that Tom Riddle took the 
time to create his diary while still at Hogwarts and presumably 
before he first entered the chamber of secrets. Plus he was already 
calling himself "Lord Voldemort" amongst his friends at school. 
Creating the  diary to preserve his sixteen year old self shows 
quite a bit of  foresight, actually, that shows more foresight from 
Voldemort than  we saw in OotP.
> 
> I guess the next proof you need for your theory is 1) whether Tom 
> started calling himself Voldemort before or after he entered the 
> chamber, and 2) if he created the diary before or after entering 
the chamber. 


Mandy here:
I don't necessarily see this as a flaw in the, well, what is now 
Kneesy's theory. ;-) 

I always saw the Diary as flexible in it ability to amass knowledge 
over time.  Like the portraits on DD wall, they all see to be very 
aware of current events even though they've been dead for many 
years.  I believe the diary is like that in that, as along as 
someone is able to communicate with it, it learns and amasses 
knowledge.  Whoever had the Diary before Ginny, prime suspect being 
Lucius Malfoy, could have kept it updated. Informing the diary of LV 
life since he 'lost' the book.  

If the essence of Tom and LV is in that diary and I don't think it 
matters, for the possession theory to work, when Tom began to call 
himself Lord Voldemort.  The diary would assume the latter name as 
it is now the correct title for the diary's creator.  And the spirit 
of Lord Voldemort, that is present in the Chamber, sucking life from 
Ginny, is fully cognizant of the current Lord Volemort's past and 
present, as well as the 16 year old Tom Riddle's past, present and 
future.  

Does that make any sense???

Cheers Mandy