Dead Basilisk

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No: HPFGUIDX 40109


> Alexander said:
> >   I wonder, was it discussed, or noticed, that there is
> > still a dead basilisk lying in the Chamber of Secrets, with
> > lots of poisonous teeth in his jaws (can be removed quite
> > easily, considering that the teeth in Harry arm had broken).

Zoë replied:
> I think it's pretty much a sure thing that the Hogwarts staff took 
care of
> that over the summer break.

Oh, I don't know that it's a *sure* thing - any number of things could 
have happened.  Maybe dead basilisks decompose into harmless 
skeletons, so there would be little reason to go down and do anything 
with the corpse; or similarly, maybe the production of its poison 
cease shortly after death, and the remaining poison quickly loses 
potency.  

Or maybe the Chamber, once relieved of its dangerous resident, 
magically fades, or the entrance (going back to speculation that the 
castle itself might be magical and transforms due to the needs/changes 
of content/construction) vanishes, or the entrance in Myrtle's 
bathroom becomes irrevocably sealed now that there is nothing in the 
Chamber of Secrets to release.

Hmm.

Mahoney