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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 113718

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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:
> 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.....
>

Valky Now:
Beg your Pardon, Geoff but wasn't your basic question this: 

> > > Valky:
> > > At the very least he created a secret entrance
> > > to Hogwarts of his own via the fourth floor secret passage to
> > > Hogsmeade.
> > >
> >
> > Geoff:
> > Can you enlarge on your source material for suggesting that?

I have answered all your objections fairly and politely. I guess 
that I must concede you won't be willing to extend the same courtesy 
back.
So in any case, my theory remains to this day far from disproven, 
and I shall take my leave with that from this discussion.
Valky