Ginny and the entrancing Veil

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 107361

dcgmck wrote:
> 
> Hypothesis:  Ginny's possession by the young Tom Riddle might well 
> have tainted her psyche if not her conscious memory with Riddle's 
> witnessing of Moaning Myrtle's death.  Do you think he actually 
> witnessed MM's death or just instigated it by setting the basilisk 
> loose?  Again, lacking canonical evidence one way or the other...

Now Cory:

I don't know whether young TR saw MM's death or not, but for purposes 
of your argument, I would argue that it does not matter.

The person who possessed Ginny (if "person" is the right word), was 
not just the 16-year-old Riddle.  It was the memory of Riddle's 16-
year-old self, but it was also a person that knew Riddle / 
Voldemort's future, including the killing of Harry's parents and his 
demise by Harry.  Thus, if we are theorizing that Ginny was 
mesmerized by the veil because of her possession by Riddle, it should 
not matter whether Riddle saw MM's death.  She could have just as 
easily have been tainted by the memory of the countless other deaths 
that Riddle / Voldemort caused throughout his life.

--Cory