Choosing the Basilisk's Victims (was: Mrs. Norris)

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> The basilisk wasn't just wandering around the halls, randomly 
petrifying whoever was there.  It traveled in the pipes, so that when 
a muggleborn student was near it (and pretty much alone), it would 
emerge.  Now, the more specific questions is: Could the basilisk 
itself tell purebloods from muggleborns?  Possibly, it could have 
been trained to do so by Salazar Slytherin if that was, in fact, the 
basilisks purpose for being in the Chamber, 
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But that can't be right.  One of the big tenets of Dumbledore and co. 
is that there is no difference between muggleborns and purebloods. If 
there was something as different as odor  between them then there may 
actually be a genetic difference.  The monster pretty much has to 
rely on the heir to direct it, if it is to be used to  attack muggle-
borns only. 
The monster could be given free reign of the school, but that defeats 
the purpose of the 'ethnic cleansing'.


catherine