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"Anyway, I'll skip the whole Chamber of Secrets thing, since it's pointless trying to explain how nuts the little bit of your soul in the Diary was. Mind you, I would like to know what it thought it was going to do once it used Ginny's soul to reanimate itself, since I can't see it, or you, wanting to share power."

"Reanimate itself?" asked Voldemort and Tom, both at the same time.

"Didn't you know?" Harry asked Tom. "I thought you knew everything that happened to me."

"It is not a part of your life I am aware of, apart from the general outline," said Tom with a shrug. "It's hard to explain half of what has happened between us-"

"Enough of this prattle," snapped Voldemort. "Explain what you meant."

"The Horcrux in the Diary took control of Ginny, but didn't just use her to open the Chamber. It sucked the soul out of her, and was right at the end of making itself a new body when I stuck a basilisk fang through the book. Then it exploded."

"It was corporeal?" asked Voldemort.

"Huh? What, like my Patronus, fully formed?"

"Yes, fully formed, and able to touch things," explained Tom.

"It picked up my wand and was seconds away from finishing her off and becoming real," said Harry. "What was it meant to do, if not that?"

"It was never supposed to do anything except keep me alive," said Tom. "I designed it to be able to protect itself, if it fell into the wrong hands, but it was never meant to attempt to gain a body of its own."

"Remarkable," said Voldemort proudly.

"Nuts," said Harry. "Stark raving mad. About as subtle as a brick, and as thick as one too. It took a whole year to gain total control of a scared, lonely, eleven year old girl, and then tried to kill her in a way that spelt it out for everyone with eyes to see.

Fair Trade, Chapter 1