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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113712

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:

> Valky:
> 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.

Geoff:
Ginny was consciously making an input into the diary to begin with 
but, rather like an addict, she became "hooked" on Tom Riddle. 
However, possession, in the form it is suggested, is not a physical 
thing. It is a mental or psychological invasion. 

My point is, that Riddle may have controlled Ginny, but he did not 
take on physical form until later.... "..she put too much into the 
diary, into me. Enough to let me leave its pages /at last/". His 
actions were carried out through a third person but only as far as 
that person could be controlled.

There was a hiccup - "It took a long time for stupid little Ginny to 
stop trusting her diary," said Riddle. "But she finally became 
suspicious and tried to dispose of it..."
(COS "The Heir of Slytherin" p.229 UK edition)

Which could easily have brought Tom's machinations to a grinding halt.

And that still doesn't answer my basic question.....

Geoff
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