Who is berk and Slytherin reputation

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 105795

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...>
wrote:
> 
> Del wonders :
> Interesting. Does that mean that Tom *intended* it for a girl to find
> and use the Diary ? Or is it just that customs have changed since
> Tom's time, when boys maybe wrote more often in diaries ?
> 
That is an interesting question.  Tom bought the diary himself, in
Vauxhall Road, at a Muggle stationer's, sometime during the summer
holidays.  Unless his life at the orphanage was quite different from
what we've been led to believe, nobody would have given it to him as a
present.  So why did he get it at all?  He was poor, so it doesn't
seem likely that he would have just bought it on a whim, because he
liked the cover. Was he actually intending to keep a diary?  Or did he
get it with the express purpose of enchanting it, to keep a "copy" of
himself in it? That shows a lot of forethought, and it makes me even
more curious to know just what was going on in his life at this time.

Wanda