CoS theories

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 46791

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "monika_zaboklicka" 
> The surest way to ensure Myrtle was not fatally hurt by Basilisk 
was o wait with opening the Chamber until she left the 
bathroom. Sure,  most propably Riddle wasn't a frequent visitor 
to a girls' bathroom,  he might not know that Myrtle used to spend 
her days there, but checking all cabins seems to be such a 
basic precaution. Besides, 
> Myrtle was the only victim Riddle could not let live. She heard 
him  speak Parseltongue, once revived after petrification, she'd 
surely tell all to anybody who'd listen.
> Side note: why nobody asked her ghost? Why Harry and 
Hermione were  the first ones to connect "speaking funny 
language", Myrtle's death,  petrification of several people and 
messages on the wall? Bad, 
> Dumbledore! Damn bad!
>

Ohh, you're talking about the man I love. <g> Let me see if I can 
salvage Dumbledore's reputation here.

Killing people in the wizarding world won't  silence them,  unless 
perhaps you memory charm them first. The ghost remembers, 
so unless you can be sure there's not going to be a ghost, 
killling doesn't work. Also, since the entrance to the chamber is 
in the bathroom, Riddle must have been in and out quite a bit 
before Myrtle died. There were multiple attacks. Riddle  probably  
just got tired of waiting for her to come out that day, and decided 
he might just as well go in.

Trouble is, Myrtle didn't remember anything useful. All she saw 
was two yellow eyes. All she heard was a boy speaking a funny 
language, which could have been Giantish, perhaps.
Since Aragog escaped, nobody knew that he didn't have two 
yellow eyes. It was, as Riddle says, his word against Hagrid's. 
Riddle was lucky, or perhaps he meant all along to let Aragog 
get away.

As Ron says, nobody would believe there were two monsters in 
the castle at the same time. Without Aragog, there was no way 
for Dumbledore to prove Hagrid's innocence--and I am sure that  
no matter how much Dumbledore begged him, Hagrid would 
never turn Aragog in. 

I don't think anyone in Dippet's day except Dumbledore really 
wanted to credit the "Heir of Slytherin" business--it would have 
meant that one of the Founders of the school was a seriously 
evil wizard, and after all, the chamber could never be found. Much 
more comforting to think that it was all a hoax by a disturbed 
child, and the monster had never come from the Chamber at all.

Pippin