Time-turning

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No: HPFGUIDX 112615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> 
> Inge:
> How can Tom Riddle even say that Voldemort is his past, present and 
> future. At the time Riddle is only 16 years old and Voldemort is - at 
> that point - not in his past or present - only in his future...
> 

This could get complicated.
OK;  Harry  meets a being he recognises as Tom Riddle - only it isn't,
it's Diary!Tom. The real Tom is part of  Voldy and off in Albania licking
his wounds after the Philosophers Stone debacle.

So what is Diary!Tom? An avatar? A copy? A construct cobbled together
to turn the diary into a trap for the unwary? And whose words are in 
Diary!Tom's mouth? The genuine Tom Riddle or something that has 
been skulking in the diary for the past 50 years? 
We can't be absolutely sure. We're not  even sure if he/it knows anything
that has happened since the diary was made apart from what he has
learned from Ginny. He's certainly unsure about what happened at
Godric's Hollow though the real Voldy (presumably Tom) was there. 
No comparable uncertainty from Voldy in the graveyard;  he's
pretty clued up as to what happened.

It's one of  those passages were JKR could pull a fast one on us.
I  think it will pay to be cautious and not try to be too literal.

Kneasy