Basilisk Problems (FB spoiler)

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No: HPFGUIDX 14351

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <harry_potter00 at y...> wrote:
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> I was wondering about the Basilisk description in FB. Shouldn't it be 
> the same as the one that Hermione tore from the book in CoS. Ok, I'll 
> even give her that it could have come from another book, but the FB 
> description doesn't even mention that the crow of the rooster is 
> fatal to it. That seems like an important detail if you ask me...

	Exactly the point! Hermione would have had no need to check FB out 
of the library, because it was one of her textbooks from 1st year. 
However, FB doesn't mention about the roosters or the spiders, so she 
wasn't sure of the connection till she found it in  the other book. 
	BTW, I can't imagine *Hermione* tearing a page out of a library 
book. Maybe Riddle did it, to cover his tracks, and Hermione found it 
in a very dusty to-be-repaired file.
	Another thing, FB mentions that the male basilisk has a red plume 
on its head. The basilisk in CoS doesn't, IIRC. Does this mean it was 
female and may have left some eggs or hatchlings around?
Pippin