Slytherin, the Chamber and the Basilisk

[Ashfae]

No: HPFGUIDX 47072



> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> > What might such a spell be?  We know that Slytherin was concerned 
> > about the admittance to Hogwarts of muggleborns - but not on 
> > grounds of magical inferiority or hostility, just of security in an
> > age of persecution.  

	Call me crazy, but someone who locks a giant evil snake in a
basement of the castle solely so that someone else can later use it to
drive away Muggleborns strikes me as having a few hostile tendencies. If
Salazar's intention was just to get rid of the Muggleborns, there must be
more efficient (not to mention easier) ways of doing it than "Death By
Serpent;" use of the basilisk strikes me as particularly vicious and
bloodyminded.


	Ashfae