Use of Hagrid's name - More names

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 98011

"gregory_lynn"  wrote:
I don't think it's a respect thing, or a button-pushing thing, but a 
> teacher-student thing.  I think Dumbledore is trying to reach the 
boy 
> that was Tom Riddle before there ever was a Lord Voldemort.
> 
> Of course, if this is true, it means that the boy inside Voldemort 
> *can* be reached which would imply some sort of temporal ambiguity.

Okay, whaddaya mean temporal ambiguity?  Why can't "Tom" 
(specifically) be reached, as was mentioned earlier, perhaps not 
through love but through mercy?  What temporal thing am I missing?

Susan :0)