Tom Riddle and the Time-Turning Traveler

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 124202


Playing with the concept of Time-Turning, I came to wonder if there
wasn't something in the WW's history that could be due to a TT
traveler. And I chose... the death of Tom Riddle's mother! OK, it's
just for fun, but it does illustrate the dangers of TT.

So let's say someone (maybe one of those Order members who
disappeared?) during VWI decides that everything would be so much
better if LV was never born, or if he died young or something. So they
enter the DoM and uses one of the Time Devices there to go back to the
time of the birth of Tom Riddle (they could have learned LV's true
identity from DD).

But things go wrong, and instead of killing Baby Tom, they end up
killing his mother, thus *creating* the conditions that will lead to
his turning into LV!

Or maybe they didn't know his personal history, and they didn't know
that it was his being put into a Muggle orphanage that unhinged him
initially, so they thought that getting rid of his mother would solve
the problem.

I have of course not a single piece of canon to support this idea, but
I feel that it would create another fascinating parallel between Harry
and LV, with both their mothers being killed because of who their
babies are supposed to become, and two "self-fulfilling prophecies".

Not to mention that if Tom's mother died to protect him and LV doesn't
know it, it would be very interesting to see how he would react if he
discovered it.

Hmm... The more I think of it, the more I like this theory. It's so...
twisted :-)

Del