JKR's "small thing" in CoS

[Jen Snyder]

No: HPFGUIDX 94466

Hello everyone...

There's something I'd been thinking about even before the release of OotP,
but when JKR said in the recent World Book Day chat that there was a "small
thing" she'd put in CoS that almost gave everything away, I was reminded of
it...I wonder if that small thing is the fact that Tom Riddle doesn't seem
to have any difficulty using Harry's wand.  We know that a wizard will never
get as good results with another wizard's wand, according to Ollivander, and
we've seen Neville and Ron struggle with using others' wands.  Yet
Diary!Riddle just picks up Harry's and uses it.  Granted, he doesn't really
do anything with it other than write his name in the air, but at one point
he's intending to use it on Harry, and doesn't seem at all concerned that he
might not be able to do with it what he wants.  Maybe this could reveal more
about Tom and Harry's relationship than JKR would want to have revealed (or
at least have revealed during CoS)?

Jen