The Basilisk Didn't Do It

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 44943

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rita" <potter76 at l...> wrote:

> I :
> don't think so implausible that the basilisk was in L. Hangleton and
it
> wouldn't bother Tom in the least taking it there because the
basilisk
> travels *on its own* through waterworks, even if I reckon it's kind
of a
> stretch to assume this huge beast can fit in an average pipe! 

That is all very nice if you're travelling between two places that are
actually *connected* to each other by waterworks.  Within a castle,
certainly.  Within a limited city neighborhood, maybe. But Little
Hangleton is in an entirely different part of the country from
Hogwarts.  Do you really suppose there's a vast underground labyrinth
of interconnected water pipes covering all of the UK?  I know we're
supposed to suspend our disbelief from time to time, but the number of
logical leaps required to support the basilisk theory is getting a bit
out of hand, I think.


> Me again:
> As I have already said, to me it makes sense for JKR to go back to
something
> we saw 2 books ago, it helps 'gluing' all the books together

She already did that in GoF with Polyjuice potion, which was also
introduced in CoS.  Dragging the basilisk into it too would be
redundant.

Marina
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