How did Ginny open the chamber?

[monika_zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 46786

In a message posted on Tue Nov 19, 2002  12:39 am
"Sherry Garfio" wrote:
> How exactly did sweet little Ginny open the Chamber of Secrets?  

Good question. There are, I think, three possibilities:
1. Riddle taught her, as Sherry writes, enough Parseltongue to 
say "open up" and made her run away just after the entry got open (if 
he didn't, Ginny most probably would have ended a first victim in 50 
years);
2. He had full control over Ginny, spoke Parseltongue through her 
lips and controlled Basilisk through her - a bit unlikely, because 
Ginny would had been much more affected by the experience than she 
seems; and second, the attacks would had been much more accurate 
(i.e. deadly)
3. Ginny's part in opening the chamber was only to leave the diary in 
the bathroom, write messages on the wall and leave. True, Riddle 
clearly suggested that he got powerful enough to leave the diary just 
hours before Harry found him in the Chamber, but I'm not taking the 
bastard's word on anything.

- Sherry again:
> What if the Weasleys are decendants of Slytherin?  And
> what if Lucius Malfoy knows it?

Unlikely, I think. Riddle is clearly described as the only descendant 
of Slytherin, though it's a bit impropable that Salazar had only one 
descendant after 1000 years. Still, Riddle was sorted to Slytherin 
House, and we do not know about any Weasley being anything other than 
Gryffindor.

- Sherry:
> why Lucius waited until this year to plant the diary.  What if he 
was
> waiting for both Harry and a Weasley child to be at Hogwarts?  Any
> Weasley would do, but Ron is too close to Harry to risk
> using him, which leaves Ginny.

Harry didn't meet any Weasleys before he went to Hogwarts, so Malfoy 
could not figure out that he'd be such a bossom friend of Ron's. 
Still, I agree that Ginny was an easier target.

- Sherry:
> If it's only the 7th child, then that would explain why Parselmouth 
is
> such a rare gift: it would only occur in one bloodline, and only 
when
> someone in that bloodline has at least 7 children.

That would rather make Parseltongue nonexistent, not rare. 

- Sherry: 
> What do we know
> about Tom Riddle's family?  But do we know if they had
> any other children?  If they did, given the conditions of orphanages
> many years ago (which I know about only from reading Dickens), 7
> siblings could easily have been separated, and Tom, being an infant 
at
> the time, would never have known they existed.  

Well, Dickens was long dead before Riddle was born. If young Thomas 
had 6 elder siblings and Riddles put them all in an orphanage just 
because their father chose to get rid of his wife, I'm quite sure 
we'd heard more about the elder Riddles that they were "most 
unpopular", "snobbish and rude". One can pretend that his wife and 
child died at birth, but it's impossible to get rid of 6 kids without 
rising considerable controversy.

- Sherry
> As a side note, there has been speculation that the Weasleys' Muggle
> relation (Molly's cousin, the accountant) is a link to red-headed 
Lily.  

Weasleys do not pretend that their squib cousin does not exist. They 
keep enough touch with him to know what his job is, most likely they 
know his family as well. If there was such a connection, Molly would 
have certainly told Harry long ago that he an Ron are related.

- Sherry 
> Okay, you may now commence in blasting my theory.

I hope it wasn't too bad :)
Monika