[HPforGrownups] Hanging Mrs. Norris

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 46767

Given that the simplest explanation seems to be the right one, there are two possibilities.

1)  Tom Riddle himself was able to reach out and hang Mrs. Norris as he'd just opened the Chamber, and had a burst of strength.  In my opinion, this is less likely, since Tom Riddle explains he was not strong enough to manifest until way, way later on.  

2) Ginny did it herself under Tom's orders, after the Basilisk had already petrified Mrs. Norris.  

But this does beg an interesting question.  The ensorcelled Ginny controlled by Tom -- was she immune to being petrified like Tom seems to also have been?

Indigo

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On 11/18/2002 at 9:38 PM Carol Bainbridge wrote:

>I searched diligently through the archives and couldn't find this
>question 
>discussed. If it has been, I apologize.
>
>The discussion of the basilisk and its victims has reminded me of
>something 
>I wondered when I finished reading CoS the first time (or maybe the 2nd 
>or...). We know that Mrs. Norris has been petrified and we know that Nick 
>has been petrified and that some students have been petrified. By the time 
>we get to the end of the book, we know how each one managed to end up 
>petrified rather than dead. All that makes sense.
>
>What does not make sense to me is that Mrs. Norris is found *hanging*.  Am 
>I misremembering that?  How did that happen? We learn that she no doubt 
>became petrified (but not dead) because she did not look directly at the 
>basilisk, but rather saw its reflection in the water that was on the
>floor. 
>Okay. So did that happen before or after she was hanging on the wall? I'm 
>not sure that matters so much as how she got up on that wall. I have to 
>assume that she did not put herself up there nor could that have been part 
>of the effect of looking at the basilisk. I mean no one else got stuck on
>a 
>wall after encountering the basilisk. They ended up lying on the floor.
>
>So could someone have hung Mrs. Norris on the wall for some reason and
>then 
>Mrs. Norris, because of her position on the wall, saw the basilisk's 
>reflection in the water? Or could she have been lying petrified on the 
>floor and then someone hung her up afterwards? Who did it and why? That's 
>never mentioned by anyone in the book, is it? If it is, I can't remember.
>Any ideas?  (Or corrections)
>
>Carol Bainbridge
>(kaityf at jorsm.com)
>
>http://www.lcag.org
>
>
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