There are no new theories! Riddle vs Voldemort

[mercurybluesmng]

No: HPFGUIDX 144741

> Allison:
> So, I know SOMEONE must have said this before, but... during my re-
read 
> of Chamber of Secrets, at the point where Harry meets the fuzzy Tom 
> Riddle, I wondered what would happen if Voldemort were to meet fuzzy 
> Tom Riddle.  Suppose one of his other Horcruxes results in the 
> formation of a new body or a re-bodied Riddle.  If they met, would 
they 
> get along like old pals?  Would they despise each other, since they 
> would be in competition for the same thing (my opinion, yes).  Maybe 
> they could duel and destroy each other????  (Either must die at the 
> hand of the other!)

MercuryBlue:
Well, if Diary!Tom had been re-embodied at the end of CoS and run into 
Vapor!Voldemort, I think Vapor!Voldemort would just have merged with 
Diary!Tom, and they/he would just have to contend with having two sets 
of memories for the same stretch of time. And everybody else would be 
in deep, deep trouble.

If a re-embodied Diary!Tom or equivalent were to meet today's 
Voldemort, I have absolutely no idea what might happen. Possibly they 
would each see the other as a part of himself and therefore his only 
possible true ally; possibly they would each see the other as very 
like himself and therefore wish each other dead, on account of they 
both know that they would both betray anyone else in a heartbeat and 
neither wishes to be betrayed. Possibly the younger one would be 
incapable of recognizing the older one, on account of never having 
seen anyone looking like that (and certainly not himself!), and 
possibly the older one has actually managed to forget what his younger 
self looked like, in which case the younger one would probably become 
one of the older one's 'loyal' Death Eaters, with (naturally) plans to 
overthrow the older one and take his place as Supreme Ruler of the 
Universe.

In any of those scenarios, we have the interesting conundrum that one 
of them serves as one of the other's Horcruxes, and possibly the 
reverse is also true, meaning that they both must be killed before 
either can die.

If THAT's a possibility, then we just have to thank the heavens that 
Voldemort so prefers to be independent and self-sufficient, for surely 
he's run across someone else who doesn't mind murder and wouldn't mind 
immortality, and only Voldemort's lack of trust for this person has 
kept them both from attaining 'true' immortality (or something much 
closer than what he's got, anyway).