Do you think there is more to Voldie's story?

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No: HPFGUIDX 97730

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> Annemehr:
> I'd rephrase that, and say that Tom needed access to the necessary
> materials to make him powerful.  To be evil, all he had to do was
> choose it.
> 


Or for evil to choose him.

I'm still of the opinion that Voldy is more than Tom Riddle gone bad.
Voldy is Tom plus something else, the most likely source of which
is the Chamber.

Before his excursions to the nether regions he'd probably been a not
very nice, bitter and resentful teenager, but still a brilliant scholar.
After entering the Chamber things change. Why change  his name?
Why this lust for power? Why this determination to eliminate
mudbloods from Hogwarts when he was one himself?

Well, there was a powerful wizard who wanted the mudbloods out
way back in the past - Salazar  Slytherin. He built the Chamber,
he installed the Basilisk and if it's title is any indication he placed
secrets (plural) in there. Just waiting for a suitable disciple/acolyte.
His heir. Heirs inherit possessions. Heirs don't even have to be
blood relations, just favoured by the previous owner. The ability
to get into the Chamber may be sufficient to define Tom as heir
to whatever was in there.

What was it that Tom inherited from SS?
Something really interesting, I'll bet, and it makes up the remaining
fraction of Voldy.

Kneasy