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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113730

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

Valky:
> 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?
> 

> Valky:
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.

Geoff:
The basic question you quote was one from a different thread. I am 
happy to concede that you have answered questions fairly (from your 
point of view) and politely but I still feel that I cannot concur 
with your findings. There was an element of confusion for me in your 
early answer when you referred to Tom!Ginny which I assumed to be 
an "appearance" of Tom but which I now realise you saw as Ginny 
possessed by Tom.

I still fail to see why Ginny should be guided by Tom to demolish the 
fourth floor corridor -  it sounds a bit like a couple of naughty 
First years out getting up to mischief.

In closing, two things. The basic question to which I referred in my 
last post was, in fact, "What is Tom Riddle?" which was the thread we 
were following.

I am sorry that you have found my answers discourteous - that was 
certainly not the intent on my part.

I think, like many exchanges between posters on this group, we can 
only agree to disagree and wait for another occasion to cross wands 
again.

Geoff
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