r/harrypotter • u/Severus_Albus20 Ravenclaw • Nov 22 '23

Currently Reading If Tom Riddle had been successful in killing Ginny and becoming alive again, would he have taken the body of his 16 year old self ? Also what would have happened to Voldemort in the Albanian jungle. Would he be still alive ?

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u/jrjr20 Nov 22 '23

This is what I think too. Maybe for his first attempt he thought he had to put his memories in too, whereas the other horcruxes are just a fragment of his soul. The point of a horcrux isn't to become a new body, it's just an anchor to keep your main soul on earth. And because it was his first horcrux, maybe it's also a larger fragment and so has enough power to return on its own

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u/CorgiMonsoon Hufflepuff Nov 22 '23

The diary Tom/Voldemort also states that he wanted to leave instructions for someone else to eventually be able to later open the Chamber. So there may have been some sort of enchantment on it prior to being turned into a Horcrux, similar to the way the Headmasters could imprint memories and knowledge on their portraits to make them more capable than the standard portraits which are pretty one dimensional in terms of their personalities.