Chapter 104: villains die by speaking too much
Harry entered inside and looked around the dim lit cave. At the far end by the foot of Slytherin's statue, he finds Ginny lying on the ground, pale and cold. He drops his wand and runs to her, trying to get a response from her, but to no avail.
It is quite funny that he actually dropped his wand and guard just because he found Ginny. He did not have a single shred of vigilance when coming to the nest of a monster that can kill people just by looking into their eyes.
Even though Jack did not enter inside he can still hear the voices and can understand the situation based on the original story that he knows. Tom Riddle approaches Harry and Ginny, holding Harry's wand that he stupidly discarded before.
It should be something like a director saying. "Now drop your wand and catch Ginny. Let the silent ghost Tom riddle get the wand and threaten you."
Any way Tom riddle explains that his presence in the present is because he is a memory, which had been preserved in his own diary for fifty years. He then reveals what has happened in the past.
He had opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago and planned to purge the school of Muggle-born. (He forgot or selectively ignored that he is also a half muggle born wizards completely)
However, when he learned that the school was going to close down due to the attacks and that Dumbledore was keeping a closer watch on him. He had no choice but to cease the attacks and frame Hagrid for doing it.
(Actually he tried his best and could only kill one person by accident. If he is really attacking he would have killed many by that time. He is simply stupid and don't know how to use the mythical creature basilisk or simply too unlucky.
Why bother petrifying them and using the unique way to kill using its eyes to stare at them. It is a long and heavy snake. He can just order it to take few bites and fill its stomach. He could have killed more this way.)
He eventually left behind a diary containing the memory of his sixteen-year-old self in hopes that it would, one day, fall into the hands of an unsuspecting victim who would help him to finish his work.
The diary ends up with that Ginny. Tom Riddle had written back sympathetically and Ginny grew to confess her fears, hopes and feelings to him. She essentially poured some of her soul into him, which was exactly what he wanted.
He gradually grew more powerful and eventually managed to pour some of his soul back into her, possessing her and using her body to open the Chamber of Secrets. He can temporarily control her to some extent.
Then he released the Basilisk that launched the new series of 'attacks' and to write the threatening messages on the walls. However, Ginny became suspicious of the diary and tried to dispose of it by flushing it down the toilet in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
This is when Harry found it. When Ginny saw Harry with the diary on Valentine's Day, she panicked and worried that Tom Riddle had told Harry about her role in the attacks. So she stole it back from his dormitory.
The diary began taking control of her again. But this time Tom riddle has the intention of killing Harry. So, he had Ginny write her death notice on the wall and come down to wait in the chamber of secrets.
This is to lure Harry to her rescue with the intention of killing Harry here. Tom Riddle is angered that Harry managed to defeat the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort as a mere baby. (Hyped specifically by Dumbledore and the group)
(Sometimes publicity can even attract ghosts and resentful spirits to you. So don't claim the credit for the things that you did not do. The one that defeated Voldemort is actually lily and Harry did not have anything to do with it.)
To be more precise, he was angry that this news has spread throughout the wizarding world causing his reputation to be tarnished. Jack is listening to all this nonsense and finally felt that the conversation or story mode before the big battle came to an end.
The more time wasted will make things more complicated for Jack. The professors on the other side are all professionals and they would quickly come here removing the blockade of rocks.
That would spoil the plan of Jack. Fortunately the conversation did not last long making things easy for Jack. Harry asks Tom Riddle why he cares about it; Tom Riddle reveals that "Voldemort is his past, present and future."
He then writes the air with Harry's wand his full name, TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE, then waves the wand and the letters rearrange themselves into, I AM LORD VOLDEMORT. (After his long explanation he got to the important point.)
Harry then used his rested knee brain to realize that Lord Voldemort was only a pseudonym and that his original name was Tom Marvolo Riddle. For this realization he has to listen to so much nonsense. But it is not over yet.
Riddle explains that he couldn't bear to use the name of a Muggle father who abandoned him before his wizard son could be born, right when he found out that his wife was a witch descended from Salazar Slytherin.
So he scrambled that name to create a new one, which he knew people would fear when he became the greatest sorcerer in the world. Well that is what he said but Jack has many doubts in this matter.
Even though he is the self proclaimed greatest sorcerer in the world he did not have an ounce of common sense. If he did, he would be still living normally ruling the entire earth. Well he is a moron on the same level or a little higher than Ron.
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