Re: The diary: Rowling completely destroyed the 'significant death' hypothesis of Albus in the interview in which she listed the people with whose deaths Tom made the Horcruxes. Yes, she claimed the ring was made with Riddle Sr and the diary with Myrtle (and the cup with Hepzibah). But she also said the diadem was Horcruxified with an Albanian peasant and the locket with a Muggle tramp. SRSLY? Also, to have it be that way there doesn't need to be s connection in time between the murder and the Hocruxification. Then why not use the deaths of the Riddle grandparents?
Jodel thinks Riddle had multiple diaries, which he used for recording memories of his magical achievements. She thinks the memory function was unrelated to the Horcrux function. He decided to make one of his diaries into a Horcrux that could release the basilisk - so he used the one that had memories of him doing just that. IOW the soul-bit is what makes the memory an active being that can possess people. (And apparently he didn't figure out how to physically obtain anyone else's memories.)
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Date: 2014-06-29 05:55 am (UTC)Jodel thinks Riddle had multiple diaries, which he used for recording memories of his magical achievements. She thinks the memory function was unrelated to the Horcrux function. He decided to make one of his diaries into a Horcrux that could release the basilisk - so he used the one that had memories of him doing just that. IOW the soul-bit is what makes the memory an active being that can possess people. (And apparently he didn't figure out how to physically obtain anyone else's memories.)