Interestingly, the copy of Voldemort we get to see in canon is very much a static copy. He comes back fifty years later with the exact same plan that he abandoned before. It’s not even a good plan; his older self abandoned it since it would arouse suspicion and wouldn’t particularly help him in his goals. Hell, diary-riddle could have just not written on the walls in blood and succeeded easily. It’s like that instance of him had not only failed to grow at all since he created the diary horcrux, but it was perpetually fixated on the state of mind it’s creator had at the exact moment of creation.
Obviously HPMoR is different from canon, but it seems like an interesting parallel.
‘HPMOR Voldemort’ - you mean the original taking-over-England-and-meeting-an-unexplained-fate-at-the-Potters’ Voldemort? That’s odd… but why would Tom Riddle let one of his Horcruxes go wild like that, and whose body did it steal?
I don’t think I have enough info to generate good hypotheses yet, but it seems odd that the original would be intellectually more degraded than, e.g. Quirrelmort (unless the Quirrel himself has/had a formidable brain already). The “pretending to be brutish and lose” plan is also improbable because it violates Malfoy’s Rule of Three. (OTOH Lucius, while clever, is not the smartest plotter around, and knows this, so perhaps the rule doesn’t apply to truly superior plotters.)
The original might not necessarily be ‘degraded’ compared to Quirrel—he had different strategies, yes, but Quirrel has observed a lot of things since ‘his’ defeat. Those could explain his change in strategy.
Interestingly, the copy of Voldemort we get to see in canon is very much a static copy. He comes back fifty years later with the exact same plan that he abandoned before. It’s not even a good plan; his older self abandoned it since it would arouse suspicion and wouldn’t particularly help him in his goals. Hell, diary-riddle could have just not written on the walls in blood and succeeded easily. It’s like that instance of him had not only failed to grow at all since he created the diary horcrux, but it was perpetually fixated on the state of mind it’s creator had at the exact moment of creation.
Obviously HPMoR is different from canon, but it seems like an interesting parallel.
Now I’m wondering whether the HPMOR Voldemort is not the original Tom Riddle, but just another Horcrux, and a rather degraded one, at that.
‘HPMOR Voldemort’ - you mean the original taking-over-England-and-meeting-an-unexplained-fate-at-the-Potters’ Voldemort? That’s odd… but why would Tom Riddle let one of his Horcruxes go wild like that, and whose body did it steal?
I don’t think I have enough info to generate good hypotheses yet, but it seems odd that the original would be intellectually more degraded than, e.g. Quirrelmort (unless the Quirrel himself has/had a formidable brain already). The “pretending to be brutish and lose” plan is also improbable because it violates Malfoy’s Rule of Three. (OTOH Lucius, while clever, is not the smartest plotter around, and knows this, so perhaps the rule doesn’t apply to truly superior plotters.)
The original might not necessarily be ‘degraded’ compared to Quirrel—he had different strategies, yes, but Quirrel has observed a lot of things since ‘his’ defeat. Those could explain his change in strategy.