HBP is Riddle (plus some reasons why)

[Sandra]

No: HPFGUIDX 106195

Hi

suzie wrote:
> Okay, I've read back about 500 posts looking for a similar idea to 
> mine and have found nothing, 

no wonder with so many posts, but it was there - an I guess it has 
been posted before too - (post 105464 by me, Sandra)

My reasoning went on a similar track 

<SNIP>
that JKR's quote about
the HBP not being neither Harry nor Voldemort,
and `that's all I am going to say on THAT subject',
could be a kind of Dobby'esk clue like in CoS.
But I am not convinced myself.

What do we know about Tom Riddle becoming LV?
We know that Dumbledore addresses him as Tom in OoP,
and we know that Tom has used the name LV with his closest friends
(future DE?)when he was at school.

Could it be that Tom rejected the muggle half in him so much,
that he kind of killed Tom to fully become the powerful yet heartless
LV?

<SNIP>

Dumbledore says in OoP to Tom/LV:
`there are other ways of destroying a man than killing him'
(not exact quote, sorry)

<SNIP>
the connection between CoS and book six
... to do with this backstory of Tom/LV... 


and then comes message 106085 
By boyd_smythe
Subject: TBAY: PS I LOVE ME LETS KISS (very long unifying theory)
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<SNIP - the entertaining long bit>

One explanation answers all three questions. Tom *chose* to become the
Heir of Slytherin through his actions: he sought the Chamber and
attempted to finish what Salazar started nearly 1000 years earlier
(Canon 4). And by so choosing, he became more like Salazar for a very
simple reason; just as Harry received some aspects of Voldemort (e.g.
Parselmouth) at Godric's Hollow, Tom Riddle received some of
Slytherin's essence in the Chamber of Secrets. In short, Tom Riddle is
the Heir of Slytherin simply because he was literally granted the
powers of Slytherin-not through the vagaries of bloodlines; but
directly from some essence of Slytherin in the Chamber. At this point,
recognizing that he has changed, Tom begins to call himself Lord
Voldemort.

What is this essence of Salazar? The clues: as far as we know, Salazar
disappeared; he left for his Heir a Chamber that would win his fight
centuries hence; and this Heir would somehow win the victory forever,
perhaps through achieving immortality. We've also seen the
diary-memory of Tom Riddle nearly become real many years later, and
we've seen Lord Voldemort's unending quest for eternal life. Put it
all together
the essence of Salazar is a memory much like Tom
Riddle's
diary, but this memory is of a powerful adult wizard at the height of
his powers. So Slytherin created a memory in some vessel (perhaps a
diary, perhaps not), which waited in the Chamber for an Heir to come,
and now has merged with that Heir. Salazar now shares the body of Tom
Riddle, one snake (the symbol of Slytherin) "in essence divided"
(inhabited by two beings).

So Salazar now inhabits Tom Riddle a.k.a. Lord Voldemort.>

<SNIP>

I. L.O.V.E. M.E. L.E.T.S. K.I.S.S.
(Parasitic Salazar Is a Layer Of Voldemort, Evildoing Most
Egregiously. Love Ends Tom's Spell. Kedavra Is Still Smarting.)
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so I think could board this vessel - with my life vest on, and the 
shore, with book 6 and 7, in sight though ; )

Sandra