CoS -Harry's knowledge of Lord Voldemort- Post 2

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 161486

> Beatrice wrote:

<SNIP>

> > 10. Hagrid was expelled for opening the chamber and Myrtle was
> > killed on June 13, 1943. (243)

zanooda:

Not that it matters much, but Myrtle was not killed on June 13, IMO, 
but some time earlier. Dippet says to Memory!Tom that he cannot allow 
him to stay at Hogwarts "in light of the recent tragedy... the death of 
that poor little girl..."(p.244 US hardback). It doesn't sound to me 
like it happened this same day. Maybe you are thinking about the movie 
(shhh!), where we actually see the body being carried out.


> Carol:

> I'd forgotten the Medal for Magical Merit, thanks. Odd that no other
> character seems to have received one AFAWK. What chapter is this
> reference in? (I have the American edition and the page numbering is
> different.)

zanooda:

Sorry, I know that this question is not to me, but since I'm already 
writing... Harry wants to find out more about Riddle and finds his name 
on a Medal for Magical Merit on p. 234 US hardback.

While looking for quotes, I noticed something that I never noticed 
before. Diary!Riddle mostly calls himself a memory, but then he says:" 
I decided to leave behind a diary, preserving my sixteen-year-old self 
in its pages..." (p.312). Isn't "self" much more than "a memory"? He 
couldn't have talked about diary being a Horcrux, could he? Or is it 
just a figure of speach?