[HPforGrownups] Re: Salazar Slytherin and the Chamber of the Basilisk (was;-oh come on)

[Christopher Nuttall]

No: HPFGUIDX 46021

Jodel: "Founded Durmstrang. I like this idea!"

Thanks, but I had something a little different in mind.  Lets assume that SS is not evil in the same sense as voldemort, but he is deeply concerned about the future of both Hogwarts and the barely born wizarding world.  We don't know how much Hogwarts contributed to the creation of the modern WW, but I'd bet that it was very importent.  After all, its training the next generation of wizards.

Now, SS, GG, et al have created this school, which must repersent a vast investment in time and effort for four wizards, and GG wants to risk that by inviting everyone with magical potential, even if their parents are magic haters and would destroy the school given half a chance.  They might have argued, HH and RR backed up GG, and, not in anger, but in sorrow, SS left Hogwarts (pausing to add a bit of himself to the sorting hat) and went off somewhere else.  I am wondering now if Dumstrang was founded by SS, but I doupt it.

As for the baslick, it may have been left behind quite by accident, he may have remembered that it was there the day he left, but he had too much pride to go back and recover it, having to face the founders when he did.  We have no proof that he made the creature, but he could have captured it.  

Chris




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