Baslisk connections/Hair/Heirs and other stuff - was: Key info in CoS

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 46656

Roo writes;
> I think Harry will return to the Chamber of Secrets. So far all we know 
> that was in there was the Basilisk, and a massive statue of Salazar 
> Slytherin. This could foreshadow a similar room that Godric created, or there 
> may be more in the Chamber of Secrets that will help Harry. I think the 
> revelation of Harry as a Parselmouth was also significant, and will be 
> important in later books. I don't recall Harry using this power in PoA or 
> GoF, yet it was of critical importance in CoS. >>

I'm a firm believer that Harry can speak parseltongue naturally. He was just 
over a year old and not able to talk clearly to being with when Lily and James 
were killed. So it's really only sepculation that Harry got the talent to speak 
parseltongue from Voldemort.

Vinnia Chrysshallie wrote:
 > Seems in Potterverse, hair plays a big role. All
 > Weasleys have red hair. So could the fact that Harry
 > and Tom Riddle have black hair be important?
 >
 > Also, the stone snakes guarding the chamber of secret
 > have emerald eyes. Green eyes. Why did Slytherin chose
 > emerald, not any other gems? And why is the Slytherin
 > house colour green? Could it be because Slytherin
 > himself has green eyes?
 >
 > Which could mean that the Potters are not the
 > Griffindor's heirs, but Slytherin's heirs!
 >
 > What does everyone think of this hair thing?

If there is a Slytherin connection, I think James might actually be the 
connection to Slytherin instead of Lily. Harry has Lily's eyes, but he has 
James' hair. Dumbledore says that Harry has certain traits that Slytherin (or 
was of Voldemort?) prized above others, but if you look at some of the traits - 
resourcefulness, certain disregard for the rules - who doesn't fit those?

We know so little about Lily and even less that James - there may end up being 
no connection to any of the houses at all. Though I still find it interesting 
that they lived in Godric's hollow, and not Salzar's cavern.

jodel at aol.com wrote:
> Wild thought; (I seem to be getting a lot of those lately.)
> 
> Basilisks are created artificially. From an egg of more-or-less magical 
> properties (variations in theories preclude a definite statement here) which 
> has been hatched under a toad.
> 
> We already know the Potterverse has a toad.
> 
> Which tends never to be where it is supposed to.
> 
> Has somebody toadnapped Trevor and set him tom hatching a Basilisk?

I think you all might find this interesting...

My husband and I did some research today on the Basilisk and found a very 
interesting link that got me thinking.

This particular article, http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/basilisk.html, says:
"The mythical king of the serpents. The basilisk, or cockatrice, is a creature 
that is born from a spherical, yolkless egg, laid during the days of Sirius (the 
Dog Star) by a seven-year-old rooster and hatched by a toad."

Further in the article we read:
"The weasel is immune to its glance and if it gets bitten it withdraws from the 
fight to eat some rue, the only plant that does not wither, and returns with 
renewed strength."

The connections I see are:
Basilisk
Sirius
a toad (perhaps a Longbottom connection)
and a weasel (perhaps a Weasley connection)

I'm beginning to wonder if the Basilisk/Sirius connection might support the 
'Sirius being a Slytherin' theory.

Along with J0del, I also wonder who's toad was used to hatch the egg. Who's 
Roster was used to lay the egg in the first place?

How do the Weasley's fit into this?

I also have to ask - how does a Rooster lay an egg, and can you get a toad to 
sit still atop an egg long enough for it to hatch?

Take care
-Katze