Diary!Tom Not So Separate From Voldemort

[catimini15]

No: HPFGUIDX 104977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:
(snip)
> So Voldemort of the present (...) is in Albania as events unfold 
in Chamber of Secrets,
> while Tom Riddle, the entity preserved in the diary, is at Hogwarts
> trying to regain his corporeal form by sucking the life force out 
of
> Ginny. This seems to me pretty conclusive proof that, no matter
> how they are connected, Voldemort and Tom Riddle are in fact two
> separate entities.
> 
> Which does make me wonder what JKR meant by saying Voldemort
> would have been strengthened considerably by Ginny's death. Does
> it mean Tom would have merged with his older "self," providing the 
> present day Voldemort with a youthful body again?

Now me (Nadine) :

Yes, I do believe, at the time of CoS, that Tom Riddle would have 
merged with his older self providing Vapourmort with a youthful body 
again. It would have strengthened Voldy considerably but, somehow, I 
think it is Ginny who would have given him that «new» strength. 
There is something about Ginny that we still have to discover. Maybe 
it has to do with JKR statement about Ginny being the only girl of 
her lineage for a long time ? Maybe she has plenty of the special 
power Harry is supposed to be full of ? Love or a little bit of 
Gryffindor's or both ?

I don't know if Voldy and Tom are two different entities. I think 
Voldy is simply Diary/Tom's future. But if they are two separate 
entities, then maybe Kneasy is really on to something with 
his «possession» theory. And maybe Tom is the Half Blood Prince
(HPB). For some reasons, I like to think that Salazar Slytherin is 
the HBP ! And I think he was the first wizard to be possessed by an 
even greater evil something that used to roam in the Chamber. 
Grindewald being the second, Tom the third, etc. Mouhahahaha !

Nadine