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

[monika_zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 46749

Come to think of it, the Basilisk proved to be higly incompetent in 
killing Muggle-borns. Sure, Rowlings lets us think that all failures 
were accidental - the water splittered on the floor, Colin's camera 
and presence of Nick - that all were things Riddle might not think 
about. Still, killing nobody is quite a poor result for the  ultimate 
terrorist of wizarding world. 
My theory is that Riddle had chosen wrong tools - Basilisk (hardly an 
equivalent of Muggle snaeper gun) and Ginny - who most propably was 
unwilling to hurt anybody, and therefore resisted Riddle's call to 
let the Basilisk loose when it'd do most harm. 
Riddle's plan to get rid of Muggle-borns had much more to do with 
wishful thinking that actual action; I believe that neither of his 
victims was "choosen" (with obvious exception of Ginny). He was 
sixteen when he put himself into this diary. It took him thirty-odd 
years to become efficient. And that's the trouble wizards have to 
face now.
Monika