On diary!Tom's motives, I just see it as his MO - win the writer's trust, draw them in, exploit them. As a diary, his options are rather limited, after all. What I wonder about is what exactly his point of view is - what intellect does he have beyond teenage-tom mentality? Does he have fifty years' experience of people writing in him? How familiar is he with Voldemort? If it's just what Tom was planning back in the day, and then what Ginny gossipped about Harry... Because, afore-suggested conspiracy theories aside, I really can't see Lucius Malfoy falling prey to a teenage manifesto in his adult years, especially after Voldemort's fall... And I don't see Voldemort messing about with it much during his rise, when he had bigger fish to fry than keeping up with this one backup plan he had when he was sixteen...
Oh that's a lovely picture of Voldemort, though, isn't it? Backing up his files every once in a while, as it were, obsessive as he is about preventing his demise. Maybe that's where it started - diaries. And then he built up to more complex enchantments, setting his sights on true immortality of the Self.
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Date: 2004-10-26 11:22 pm (UTC)Oh that's a lovely picture of Voldemort, though, isn't it? Backing up his files every once in a while, as it were, obsessive as he is about preventing his demise. Maybe that's where it started - diaries. And then he built up to more complex enchantments, setting his sights on true immortality of the Self.