Comparisons

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No: HPFGUIDX 89779

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
 
> Geoff:
> Yes, but /why/ did he want to get into the Chamber of Secrets?
> 
> "'I thought someone must realise that Hagrid couldn't possibly be 
the 
> heir of Slytherin. It had taken /me/ five whole years to find out 
> everything I could about the Chamber of Secrets and discover the 
> secret entrance....'"  
> 
> (COS "The Heir of Slytherin" p.230 UK edition)
> 
> So he'd been digging around since his First Year ot thereabouts. 
> Sounds a very dedicated investigator... 
> 
> Back to my question above....
> 

Bookworm:
Not only did he have an idea about what was in the Chamber, he 
clearly agreed with "Salazar Slytherin's noble work." (see quote 
below)

Kneasy: 
Diary!Tom is not the real thing but a magical construct from 
Malfoy's hands - the real Tom was convalescing in Albania...

Bookworm:
Malfoy put the diary in Ginny's cauldron, but Tom created it himself:
"I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the Chamber again while I was 
still at school. But I wasn't going to waste those long years I'd 
spent searching for it.  I decided to leave behind a diary, 
preserving my sixteen-year-old self in its pages, so that one day, 
with luck, I would be able to lead another in my footsteps, and 
finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work."  (CoS "The Heir of 
Slytherin" p.312 US hardcover)

Ravenclaw Bookworm