Credit where credit is due....

[Barry Arrowsmith]

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There dwells amongst us an astute theoriser, but he's of a modest   
and retiring disposition. So he doesn't post his ideas on the boards  
as often as he should.

Horseclucks. Not a plot device that very many fans would think of as  
a plot device - but Lyn Mangiamelli did - or something as close as  
makes no difference. Every so often he's kind enough to bounce ideas  
into my mail-box and usually at least the essence of the idea gets a  
mention (with appropriate credits) in a post of mine. I'm pretty sure  
I mentioned this idea somewhere, but I'm damned if I can find it -  
it'll be some time towards the end of last year. If anybody can  
locate it (almost certainly on HPfGU) please let me know.

Anyway, below is an extract from the relevant mail.
Be impressed. I am.

Kneasy


 >snip
Though unlikely, I've been wondering for the last couple of months if
part of the reason why DD was reluctant to take out LV was that there is
that the corporeal LV is not the entire LV.  Perhaps the Riddle of the
diary was not merely a memory, but an actual piece of LV. After all,
diary Riddle seemed to need GW's "life force" in order to become
corporeal  (and presumably a freely mobile agent). Doesn't this seem a
little like the vanquished LV who needed other's "life force" to
eventually be fully corporeal and thus fully powerful again.   So. what
if part of LV#1's plan for immortality was to encapsulate portions of
himself and distribute them in a number of locations, the diary being
but one. Thus the events at GH were unable to entirely destroy him, as
there were multiple pieces of him everywhere.

We have wondered why it is that he is so slow in making his moves, now
that he has returned, and why he still seems so relatively weak. What if
it is because he is still in the process of collecting his full powers
(i.e., collecting the parts of himself), and it is taking time to
acquire them from each hidden location (likely known only to him for
what they are, just so no one else can access them).

What if HP's attempted possession was not only to acquire HP's powers,
but perhaps to store some of his own away. Wouldn't it be a hoot if LV
did not share some of his powers accidently, but rather deliberately.
What a great strategy to first take over your intended nemesis, and then
to fool everyone by using the newly possessed  nemesis as a place to
store some of ones powers--in such a case, the intent would have never
been to kill HP. Who would ever suspect. Of course things went awry, but
perhaps not as much as others suspect. Might it be that HP finds diary
Riddle so familiar, because he is an interrupted/incomplete second
(fourth, fifth or sixth) version of diary Riddle.
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