Right? Or was Riddle on a new path now, beloved by the public and famous, working a prestigious Ministry internship over the summer. Is it possible he could have gotten a taste for the power offered to him by rising within the system, and would abandon his dreams of becoming a terrorist Dark Lord? Harry thought of what he knew of Riddle; his brilliance and cunningly charismatic manipulation of everyone around him; his ruthlessness in extorting innocent students; his hunger for knowledge about his future, his desire to learn that he’d become great.