basilisk

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 8946

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, aiz24 at h... wrote:
> readbaby asks:
> 
> >whats the point of harry being able to speak parseltounge if he
> >doesnt tell basilik to kill tom morvolo riddle? 

Tommy is the heir of Slytherin, hence only he controls Slytherin's 
pets.
 
> The second time I read CoS I wondered whether *Tom* could kill 
> *Harry*--if he could, why did he sic the basilisk on him and get 
all 
> upset when it was distracted by Fawkes?--why not just curse him?  
He 
> seems to be capable, if not of Avada Kedavra (he's only 16 after 
all), 

At the start of GoF Frank Bryce tells the police in Little Hangleton 
that he saw a teenage boy near the murder scene. It seems clear to me 
that this is supposed to be Tom Riddle Jr. Therefore he was easily 
powerful enough to kill not one, but three people not very long after 
leaving his memory in the diary. Also in CoS Tom Riddle Jrs. memory 
seems to have no trouble using Harrys wand when tracing the anagram 
in the air, so it seems a little strange he didn't just kill Harry as 
soon as he turned up. But as we saw at the end of GoF, HWMNBN does 
like to play doesn't he?




Dai