Why Fret About Voldemort Considering Riddle?

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 106024

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Louis Badalament"
<lb140900 at y...> wrote:

> But my question is... why?  Why does he even *feel* this guilt?  
> Remember book 2?  He killed Tom Riddle easily enough.  He was, in 
> fact, rather proud of the accomplishment, even years later...
> 
I think it's just the difference between heat-of-the-moment, desperate
*reaction*, and this sober reflection on what it's going to feel like
to actually have to deliberately kill someone else.  Plus, I don't
think that Harry actually KNEW that stabbing the diary would kill
Riddle - he took a chance because he was desperate and had nothing to
lose, and it paid off.  As he said himself, he was lucky.  It's quite
a different thing to contemplate and plan someone else's death.

Wanda