The cave

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 149473

lorac44444 <lorac44444 at ...> wrote:
> Any thoughts on what happened to the two children Tom Riddle
> took to the cave? Anyone think this is worth pursuing?

> Kemper now:
> I have wondered about them.  I've wondered about them and how, if
> at all, their torture relates to the potion in the cave.
> It wasn't until I heard the audio of the book that I thought the
> potion could be the memories of either one or both kids or from the
> adult Tom. (Dumbledore, to me, sounds like an anguished child)
> But then I second guess the idea of the memory being from the kids
> because how could Kid Tom have taken those memories?  I don't know.
> BUT... he took tokens from his victims to remind himself of his
> power (no canon proof, just working within my field of knowledge)
>  Which begs the question: what did he take from them?
> Taking the memory(s), and treasuring it(them), and using it to
> protect his cherished secret, that seems like pure evil.  I would 
> like to see that in our not so scary, clunky Dark Lord.

Jen: Ugh. That would place Voldemort on a different plane of evil 
than how I've veiwed him so far. And there IS a way he could have 
those memories: the power of possession. One of my fave little 
theories is that Voldemort was practicing his newfound power of 
possession on the children in the cave. But he couldn't tell 
Dumbledore about *that*, then he would know the level of cruelty he 
was capable of and that could endanger his chances of getting into 
Hogwarts (in Riddle's mind). So he trots out the 'talking to snakes' 
line and piques Dumbledore's curiousity without arousing outright 
suspicion.

Gee, this might even revive the R. Amy Benson theory! Finally 
getting her revenge for the cave by destroying the horcrux. Well, 
nah. The locket in the Black house would then be a big red herring 
and even I'm not banking on that one.

Jen, missing for a moment the days when wild & confident speculation 
reigned.