[HPforGrownups] Tom Riddle and the Time-Turning Traveler

[Sue White]

No: HPFGUIDX 124206

Awesome theory. Perhaps it could be a well meaning
Harry Potter who does this?


--- delwynmarch <delwynmarch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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