A tunnel, a diary and a memory.....

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 114354

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> > Geoff:
> > 
> > But what does canon say.....
> <snip> "I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the Chamber again while I
> was still at school. But I wasn't going to waste those long years 
I'd
> spent searching for it. I decided to /leave behind/ a diary,
> preserving my sixteen-year-old in its pages so that one day, with
> luck, I would be able to lead another in my footsteps and finish
> Salazar Slytherin's noble work."'
> > 
> > (COS "The Heir of Slytherin" p.230 UK edition) - my emphasis.
> 
Carol:
> So you think that Tom Riddle left the diary in, say, the Slytherin
> common room or his dorm room for another Slytherin to find? Wouldn't
> it have made more sense, and still fit the meaning of "left behind,"
> for him to give it to a school friend (say Malfoy's father) to be 
used
> if it were needed? 

<snip>
 
> I agree that it wasn't in LV's possession in some hideout, but where
> was it and how did Lucius come by it, in your view?
> 
> Carol, who isn't arguing, just trying to determine the point you're
> making with the quotation

Geoff:
Possibly your suggestion,immediately above. The point I'm making is 
that the diary was not in /his/ possession. The puzzling thought is, 
why did he consider that he was wasting years of searching if he 
didn't leave the diary "behind", wherever that is?

I'm afraid much of my posting about Tom recently has been questions 
looking for answers and so the views of other members are of great 
interest.

Geoff
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