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

[Kim McGibony]

No: HPFGUIDX 113673

Geoff:
>>Now to the diary which produces another whole crop of
questions. To begin with, why did Tom Riddle decide to
create the diary? His logic in COS seems odd:

`"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 self 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)

Why create the diary at all? Does he think he is going
to suffer amnesia when he walks out of the Hogwarts
gates? He is not going to waste those years; he has
the information safely locked up in his head.<<


Empooress:True, he would have the information locked
in his head, but don't you think it would be easier to
have a possesed student doing the deeds, rather than
an adult who doesn't belong there. 


Geoff:
>>Where has the diary been in the intervening 50 years?
Has Lucius had it (how old was he in 1942?)? If so,
why has it apparently not been used? Did he know how
to access it? Or want to? Perhaps after Voldemort's
unscheduled exit in 1980, Lucius felt that the less
known about the diary the better. But.... When the
wretched book reappears in 1992, why didn't Lucius try
to get to the Chamber himself or why not give it to
Draco and get him to create mayhem and mischief rather

than  give it to Ginny who might not even get as far
as trying to use it? I wonder whether Lucius knew
precisely what it was or whether he dumped it onto
Ginny in the hope that she might be a vehicle for it 
to lead to the undermining of Dumbledore's influence
and the possible end of Hogwarts.<<


Empooress: I think yes the Malfoy had the diary for
some time, he had perhaps even been givem it by
Voldemort. In PS/SS Malfoy learn of Voldemort return
to England, Draco is a student and would most
certainly told his father about the goings on at
school with Prof. Quirrill. Since he is aware that
Voldemort is in England and knows that the diary can
create a flesh and blood Tom Riddle, he knows now is
the time to use it. Somewhere in COS DD stated that
Voldemort would have been even stronger if Tom Riddle
had survired. IT seems to me that the older
non-corperal Voldemort would have been able to
use/merge with Tom Riddle. I'm also certain that
Malfoy knew what the diary was for and what it would
eventually do to a person who became posessed by it,
namely kill them. In order for Tom Riddle to become
"real", Ginny would have to die.
I think Malfoy was in Diagon Alley that day, to
attempt to dump the diary on a Hogwarts student, that
he ran into Ginny was just luck on his part.

Geoff:
>> He was apparently around, probably dormant, while
Voldemort was still creating terror and havoc. So,
what is or was his function?<<

Empooress:I'd have to say ame as Voldemort's, havoc
and terror.