horcrux = cloning?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 138482

Fabian wrote:
> I was thinking the other day when reading a post about the horcrux 
> diary Tom Riddle created. As I understood it, Voldemort could come
back from someone writing in the diary, living on their feelings and
finally come back to life to the cost of the life of the writer. Now,
what if this happened after the end of book 4? Would there be two
Voldemorts? 

Carol responds:
I've wondered exactly the same thing since I first read CoS. JKR says
on her site that Voldemort would have become a lot stronger, but I
cn't help imagining an encounter--I alomost said a
confrontation--between a revied Tom Riddle (Diary!Tom animated by
Ginny's soul but with all his young wickedness and innate powers
intact and Vapormort, at that point possibly possessing Nagini or some
other animal. Without question, they would have recognized each other,
but what would happen then? I think Vapormort would try to possess Tom
to get himself a young handsome body, but would Revived!Tom allow it?
Wouldn't he think that *he* was the real Voldemort and Vapormort was
just a a disembodied partial soul that had been exploded out of its
body? Or would he think he'd be stronger by welcoming another seventh
of his soul into his body, a very corrupted soul that was guilty of
many more murders than Tom (Diary!Tom is at Hogwarts when Moaning
Myrtle's body is carried out; he has not yet murdered his parents. He
even gives the date when he frames Hagrid; it's at the end of his
fifth year). But even if Tom had already committed four murders,
what's that compared with the hundreds that Voldemort is directly or
indirectly responsible for murdering and torturing, most of them in
VW1? So would a desire for power on that scale drive Revived!Tom to be
possessed by himself without the hideousness of a his own transfigured
face sticking out the back of his head?

Anyone else have any ideas what would have happened if the diary plot
had succeeded?

Carol