The Ravenclaw Hx identified?

[davewitley]

Entropy:
> 
> This brough to mind an important element of the HorSocks for me.  The
> only one we have actually seen eliminated is the diary. In order to
> destroy the diary, it was necessary for Harry to confront the piece 
of
> the soul contained therein; that is, Diary!Tom himself.

That's not how I see it, rather the reverse.  As long as Harry was 
focussed on Riddle, he got nowhere - and there's plenty of evidence 
that Riddle was playing for time in that scene.

Once he stabs the *diary*, Riddle vanishes and Ginny revives.

It is true that, had Riddle not come out of the diary, the Basilisk 
would not have been summoned and harry would not have had a handy fang 
to do the stabbing with.  But I think the inference is that a powerful 
magical entity requires another powerful magical weapon to destroy it, 
not that the fang was effective because Riddle had had a hand in its 
availability.  I take it that, with an appropriate weapon, Harry could 
have destroyed the diary at any time, had he known what it really was.

David