[HPforGrownups] Diary!Tom Not So Separate From Voldemort?

[Lynx412 at AOL.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 104663

In a message dated 7/6/2004 1:04:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
entropymail at yahoo.com writes:

> This struck me, particularly after reading several recent posts here
> about things such as the prophecy possibly referring to three people
> (Tom Riddle, Harry and Voldemort).  I think  JKR has given us a hint
> regarding the connection between Diary!Tom and Voldemort.  Lots of us
> have come to see Diary!Tom as an entity separate from Voldemort, a
> seed planted long ago by Voldemort which has grown, with the unwitting
> help of Ginny,  to an independent self. 
> 
> But this answer suggests to me that what happens to Diary!Tom happens
> to Voldemort. It suggests that they are one (in essence divided,
> perhaps? Ack!, don't get me started....)

       Possible, but what I saw it as was a new, young body for VaporMort. 
All his hard-learned knowledge and a new young form not recognizable as 
Voldemort would have made him much stronger...and, with his control of their Dark 
Marks he could have easily convinced his DEs of his true identity.

       The Other Cheryl


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