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

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No: HPFGUIDX 46745

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
> 
> Come to think of if, not all victims were in fact muggleborn. Ginny 
is
> pureblood, Nearly headless Nick is a ghost and we don't know if he 
was
> purebred or not in life and the cat wasn't a wizard at all. None of
> those died..well, Nick did, but 500 years before. There's nothing to
> support the idea that the monster only effected or went after 
muggles.
> Muggle born were only its master's primary target.  
> 
> Jazmyn

The non-muggle-born victims-Moaning Myrtle, Mrs. Norris and Nearly-
headless Nick- were guilty of being at the wrong place at the wrong 
time.  IMO, they were not targeted victims- but merely got in the 
way, so to speak.  IMO, Riddle makes it very clear that he is 
carrying on his ancestor-Salazar Slytherin's- work, that is, to rid 
Hogwarts of muggle-borns.  The CoS makes it plain that Slytherin left 
Hogwarts because he could not get his way concerning who would be 
admitted to Hogwarts-leaving the Chamber of Secrets with its basalisk 
behind to continue his dirty work whenever the right person came 
along.  Enter Tom Riddle-then Riddle left his diary behind-again to 
eventually carry on the work of Slytherin.  Thanks to Harry-the 
basalisk and the diary have been destroyed-hopefully rendering the 
Chamber of Secrets useless-but who knows?.  Recently JKR has stated 
that the CoS (the book) contained important clues-relevant to the 
series. My opinion in regards to what these clues might be-center 
around Ginny-the possible after effects of her contact with Riddle 
and also the comparisons drawn by Riddle himself between him and 
Harry-pointing out certain similarities.  Apparently the CoS still 
has some secrets to reveal.

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