Tom, ________, and Harry?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 89993

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizvega2" <lizvega2 at y...> 
wrote:
> Is it possible, like Maline at Mugglenet's North Tower suggests, 
> that Tom and Harry will both survive, but that either the 'one' or 
> the 'dark lord' will die?
> 
> In PS, when Fred and George, or is it Ron?, asks him if he's 
really 
> Harry Potter, and Harry replies, "Oh, him". A small statement, but 
> isn't there an infinite difference between Harry, and the 'Boy who 
> lived?'
> 
> Just like when Dumbledore refers to LV as 'Tom' in the MOM? I 
think 
> that statement is significant. It implies that perhaps, beneath 
> everything else he is still Tom Riddle?
> 
> LizVega

What, you mean like Darth Vader dying at the end of "Return of the 
Jedi" and Anakin Skywalker killing the emperor to save Luke? That 
*could* happen, but I just don't see it. Perhaps Tom Riddle, the 
wounded, mistreated orphan boy with a hidden heart of gold will 
resurface in LV and the evil side of LV will be destroyed, but from 
what we've seen of 16 year old Tom, there isn't much good to go back 
to, is there? As for the "Oh, him" statement in SS, that, IMHO, was 
definately a way to seperate Harry from his "famous Harry Potter" 
side, but I don't think that seperates Harry from his "boy-who-
lived" side, simply because Harry Potter IS the boy who lived. Even 
if he hadn't become famous for it, he was still the BWL, so he 
probably cannot be seperated from his destiny. 
Meri - who would have totally fallen in love with young Tom Riddle, 
until of course, he turned into a homicidal maniac