Thing you're changing: Helena never tells Tom Riddle about her diadem How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books? I've always thought this was interesting. But try as he might, Tom Riddle can't get The Grey Lady to reveal her secret hiding place for the diadem and he has to choose a different object for his horcrux. I imagine he'd be upset, now only having items belonging to 2 of the 4 Hogwarts founders. But the real change would come when it was time for Harry to find and destroy all the horcruxes. Sure, Voldemort may have found another object that he wanted to hide inside Hogwarts, inside the Room of Requirement's lost things room but it wouldn't be as readily recognizable. Would Harry and company be able to find the object at all? If we're going for a happy ending, the answer is yes. But either way, it'd probably take him much, much longer. And since the retrieval of the diadem was already a pretty dangerous task, I think maybe more than just Crabbe wouldn't have made it out alive.
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Date: 2011-11-13 02:41 am (UTC)How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books? I've always thought this was interesting. But try as he might, Tom Riddle can't get The Grey Lady to reveal her secret hiding place for the diadem and he has to choose a different object for his horcrux. I imagine he'd be upset, now only having items belonging to 2 of the 4 Hogwarts founders. But the real change would come when it was time for Harry to find and destroy all the horcruxes. Sure, Voldemort may have found another object that he wanted to hide inside Hogwarts, inside the Room of Requirement's lost things room but it wouldn't be as readily recognizable. Would Harry and company be able to find the object at all? If we're going for a happy ending, the answer is yes. But either way, it'd probably take him much, much longer. And since the retrieval of the diadem was already a pretty dangerous task, I think maybe more than just Crabbe wouldn't have made it out alive.
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