Harry & Voldemort, wands and similarities/differences

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 105358

"Diana" wrote:
> > > Fourth, Harry kills Tom Riddle by 'killing' the diary.  

Carol responds:
Harry killed Diary!Tom, true, but the real Tom Riddle lived past the
age of sixteen, killing his father and grandparents and returning to
Hogwarts as Head Boy before disappearing and beginning his quest for
immortality. Even after he was completely unrecognizable because of
his many transformation, he was both Voldemort and Tom Riddle. Even
vaporization and the return to a new (but identical?) body thirteen
years later didn't change the fact that Tom Riddle Sr. was his father
("bone of the father," etc.) So Tom Riddle wasn't dead because
Diary!Tom was just a memory, not a real person.

And yet, if he had somehow gained a real life by stealing Ginny's
(without being destroyed by Harry), we'd have had two
Riddle/Voldemorts to deal with, a boy and a man: "Voldemort is my
past, present, and future." Would they have been allies or rivals? (I
think Lord Voldemort would have murdered his own youthful self.)

Carol