[HPforGrownups] Re: Soul bits (Was: CHAPDISC: HBP 23, Horcruxes)

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 161001

>Carol
 
<snip>
>The soul bit enebled the memory to possess the reader fo the diary  (as
with ginny) rather than merely interact with the reader (as  with
Harry). Note that Harry's excursion into the diary to view  the
Riddle/Hagrid incident is very similar to his excursions into  the
Pensieve. He's a witness to events that he sees objectively, from  the
outside, and the memories are not aware of his presence, nor do  they
control his thoughts. The memory is just a memory. Neither it nor  the
soul bit controls or insluences Harry. He just misinterprets it,  as
Diary!Tom intended.

Nikkalmati:
 
It does seem the memory and the soul bit are separate.  Riddle's  desire to 
loose the Basilisk on the school even after he had graduated predated  the 
knowledge and ability to create a Horcrux.  But how did the memory  propose to 
entice someone to open the Chamber just by showing the memory of  Hagrid?  Riddle 
believed a Parselmouth heir would come to the school  someday, but how did he 
propose to get the diary in that person's  hands?  I am wondering how he 
originally intend to use it, before  it became a Horcrux.
 
Nikkalmati    


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