"Of course, you're going to do as you please, and I'll back whatever decision you make. Showing him that he can't control you will make him want to collect you. All I want to say for now, because I can see you need time to adjust to this information, is that if you and I are both in his ear, how much do you think we can get done for the better? Tom Riddle, still a very powerful, very dark wizard, never becomes Voldemort. If he maintains his mental facilities? If he makes friendships, instead of just contacts and followers out of power hungry sycophants?"