[HPforGrownups] Tom Riddle and the Diary!Horcrux

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 161083

Mike wrote:
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>
> I am assuming that Tom spent his Holidays at Hogwarts, just like
> Harry did. In fact, since the memory Harry visited showed Tom
> attempting to remain over the summer at Hogwarts, this seems the
> most logical conclusion. The diary was Muggle made for the year
> 1943. Tom must have bought (or stole) it during the summer of '43,
> just after his fifth year but most likely before he visited his
> ancestoral hovel. He would never have found a '43 diary later and he
> couldn't preserve his 16-year-old self after 1943.
>
> So, Tom acquired the Diary with the express intent of making it a
> Horcrux and made that Horcrux while he was still 16. He also
> murdered his father and grandparents when he was 16 and framed his
> uncle for those murders. Logic tells me that he brought the diary
> with him and performed the Horcrux encasing spell when he does the
> killing, at his father's house.


montims:
I'm sorry, I have this devil in me that makes me challenge any logical
conclusion.  Hence, I hypothesize that the Orphanage, at which he spends his
summer holidays, sent him the diary as an annual Christmas gift.  Or - the
shop which sold the diaries was bombed, and its stock was subsequently sold
on or dumped after the war...  I could probably think of a few more
scenarios, given time...


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