A large part of the point of Quirrel/Riddle/Voldemort in HPMOR is that he can assume any identity he wants to. His behavior being at odds with what you imagine a Voldemort would do is simply his deception going to a much higher level. He doesn’t act like a Voldemort because he was never actually Voldemort any more than he is actually Quirrel.
Where does that interpretation come from? It makes sense, but I’m curious. Also I think I was clear that such actions would fit the character. I included the possibilities that were out of character as examples to rule out certain explanations. My main grievance was with the way the chapter was written. It seemed like it was trying to trick the reader, which would be brilliant If we didn’t all know the truth.
I will say this much, Mr. Potter: You are already an Occlumens, and I think you will become a perfect Occlumens before long. Identity does not mean, to such as us, what it means to other people. Anyone we can imagine, we can be; and the true difference about you, Mr. Potter, is that you have an unusually good imagination. A playwright must contain his characters, he must be larger than them in order to enact them within his mind. To an actor or spy or politician, the limit of his own diameter is the limit of who he can pretend to be, the limit of which face he may wear as a mask. But for such as you and I, anyone we can imagine, we can be, in reality and not pretense. While you imagined yourself a child, Mr. Potter, you were a child. Yet there are other existences you could support, larger existences, if you wished. Why are you so free, and so great in your circumference, when other children your age are small and constrained? Why can you imagine and become selves more adult than a mere child of a playwright should be able to compose? That I do not know, and I must not say what I guess. But what you have, Mr. Potter, is freedom.
He acts as different people in Azkaban, as Hat and Cloak (and/or Ghost Lady). He has a different face to every person he interacts with, from Snape to Harry to the public at the ceremony, and in this chapter presenting an entirely new, almost caring face to Hermione.
and in this chapter presenting an entirely new, almost caring face to Hermione.
Which makes perfect sense, since, via his dictionary attack (that took place in earlier chapters), he’d already learned that this is the easiest way to manipulate her.
A large part of the point of Quirrel/Riddle/Voldemort in HPMOR is that he can assume any identity he wants to. His behavior being at odds with what you imagine a Voldemort would do is simply his deception going to a much higher level. He doesn’t act like a Voldemort because he was never actually Voldemort any more than he is actually Quirrel.
Where does that interpretation come from? It makes sense, but I’m curious. Also I think I was clear that such actions would fit the character. I included the possibilities that were out of character as examples to rule out certain explanations. My main grievance was with the way the chapter was written. It seemed like it was trying to trick the reader, which would be brilliant If we didn’t all know the truth.
He acts as different people in Azkaban, as Hat and Cloak (and/or Ghost Lady). He has a different face to every person he interacts with, from Snape to Harry to the public at the ceremony, and in this chapter presenting an entirely new, almost caring face to Hermione.
Which makes perfect sense, since, via his dictionary attack (that took place in earlier chapters), he’d already learned that this is the easiest way to manipulate her.