What is Tom Riddle? Was (a tunnel, a diary and a memory.....)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 113694

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> Valky wrote:
> Tom Riddle was 
> making Ginny do evil things in the Winter of COS. > 


Geoff:
> Canon implies very clearly that Tom may have been persuading Ginny 
to do things on his behalf but he was not directly and physically 
> involved at that time....
>

Valky:
I am afraid you are quite wrong about that Geoff.
In COS Dumbledore clearly contradicts you by saying that he wonders 
*how* Tom Riddle *possessed* Ginny. Not *if*.

In OotP, ch 23 Christams on the Closed Ward:
'Well that was a bit stupid of you' said Ginny angrily. 'see as you 
don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know_who, and I 
can tell how it feels.'

and then a few lines along:
 'Well, can you remember everything you've been doing?' Ginny 
asked 'Are there big blank periods when you don't know what you've 
been up to?'

then a bit further:
'When he did it to me, I couldn't remember what I'd been doing for 
hours at a time. I'd find myself somewhere and not know how I got 
there.'

finally in COS Chapter 17 The Heir of Slytherin Tom Riddle says:
Dear Tom, He recited, I think I'm losing my memory. There are 
feathers all over my robes and I don't know how they got there....

Clearly, contrary to your insistence. Ginny was NOT conciously 
*persuaded* to do Toms bidding. 
He possessed her mind and physical body and *used* it, and as likely 
as anything other, in the exact way I have suggested.

Valky
Holding it up well.