Tom Riddle's Birth (Re: JKR Chat "The Crucial ...")

[Jen Snyder]

No: HPFGUIDX 92515

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from Naama...
<< JKR is clearly portraying Harry and Tom as very similar in their
basic nature and temperament (outward appearance, talented, brave,
ambitious, charismatic). However, who they become is (or will be) the
opposite poles of good and evil.  >>

Sometimes I wonder if Harry and Tom aren't somehow the same person, or two
parts of the same person...like somehow Tom's goodness that he abandoned
when he became Lord Voldemort was saved (maybe by Dumbledore?) and placed
into Harry?  I know it sounds bizarre and there's not a shred of canon to
support it, but I'm just always really struck when rereading CoS how JKR
goes to such pains to point out how similar Tom and Harry are.  And I firmly
believe that the final battle between Harry and Voldemort won't come down to
a battle of wands or wizard powers (notwithstanding the terrific battle at
the Ministry of Magic in OotP!), but will be something more symbolic, with
Harry sacrificing himself in some way to redeem Voldemort and return him to
being just simply Tom Riddle.

Jen