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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 113630

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> 
> I feel the suggestion that Tom did something to make the tunnel 
> appear collapsed doesn't hold water. "Disillusionment" is used to 
> make a person or object almost invisible against its background – 
viz Moody's use of one on Harry in the Dursley's kitchen in OOTP 
("The Advance Guard" pp. 53-54 UK edition). Again, Hermione points 
out somewhere (I haven't managed to locate it) that Hogwarts is 
enchanted so that any Muggle coming near sees only an old mouldering 
ruin with a sign saying "Keep off. Dangerous" but visible normally 
to wizard eyes. So if Voldemort tied to make the passage look 
blocked, the twins would presumably see it as usual.
> 

Valky:
The disillusionment bit was a rather insignificant part of my 
theory. Tom may have gotten Ginny to build some other kind of nasty 
in the tunnel and then blast it behind her to conceal it. 

The point of my theory is that TOM RIDDLE had a chance to DO 
SOMETHING by using Ginny in the winter of COS. I lean towards that 
he created himself a personal entrance to Hogwarts but thats pure 
speculation. Speculation that surely doesn't need to hold any real 
water on its own, as long as the fact remains that TOM RIDDLE was 
making GINNY Do EVIL THINGS in the Winter of COS. Which he was 
because she threw the book away after Christmas break even though 
there weren't any attacks then !

As for Lucius and the Diary, Tom and Lucius are entirely separate 
entities and I am positive that Tom would do as he pleased (using 
Ginny) with any new information he gleaned as memory!Tom (using 
Ginny) without it having to ever have been pre-sanctioned or 
discussed with Lucius Malfoy. So whatever the plans were before 
Christmas 1992, they wouldn't stop Tom ad libbing his own whenever 
and where ever the opportunity arose.