CoS theories

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 46843

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
>  (the following includes quite a bit of speculation):

> PIPPIN: 
> I am convinced that Lucius and the Diary plotted together, but in 
> typical evil-conspiracy fashion, with neither revealing to the other 
> their actual objectives. I am sure that if Lucius Malfoy had ever 
> had the slightest inkling that Tom could escape from the Diary 
> and act autonomously he would never, ever have let it out of his 
> control.
> 

BBOY_MN ADDS:

Interesting theory and quite possible.

-end bboy_mn - this part-

 

> PIPPIN CONTINUES:
>
> So Myrtle's death was also an accident. Either Tom didn't know 
> she was there, or he thought she'd be protected by her glasses. 
> But  they didn't have that power, or else she pushed them up to 
> wipe her eyes, saw the basilisk, and the glasses fell back into 
> place as she died. It is  likely that Tom assumed she'd been 
> successfully petrified and was just as shocked to find out she 
> was dead as everyone else.
> 
> ...Big Edit....
> 
> Pippin

bboy_mn comments:

This is really off the true subject but since you brought it up, I
will comment on it.

Q: Why did't Myrtle's glasses protect her?

A: Because glasses or no glasses, she still looked DIRECTLY into the
eyes of the basilisk.

The only other person to look at the basilisk through a lense was
Colin. So why was he protected and not Myrtle? The only way to explain
this is to assume that Colin was using a 35mm SLR camera or a box
camera where you look DOWN into view finder that is mounted flat on
the top of the camera. Does anyone know what I mean by this second
camera, and do you know what the proper term for this type is? 

In either case, not only does the light pass through several lenses,
but, and this is the key part, it is also reflected off of a mirror,
the very thing that saved Hernmione and Penelope. They were not
looking at the basilisk, the were looking at the image or reflection
of the basilisk. Poor Myrtle was actually looking directly at the real
thing.

Now Justin seeing the basilisk through a ghost, is a very special and
unusual case. Seeing something like this through the spiritual
embodiment of a dead person has to have some unsual effects and is
probably something that has rarely to never occurred before.

I know this doesn't address your theory directly, but I though I would
add my opinion regarding Mytle because someone else brought this up
recently too, and I don't think anyone addressed it.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn