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[jastrangfeld]

No: HPFGUIDX 44981

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., kelly broughton <kellybroughton at y...> 
wrote:
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> --- jastrangfeld <msbonsai at m...> wrote:
> > ****
> I also believe that the basilisk do 
> > not kill unless they want to.  Otherwise, why would Tom have to 
tell 
> > the basilisk to kill Harry in the chamber?  The thing is out for 
so 
> > much blood, you would think just releasing it would be enough.  
> 
> > Julie 
> 
> A question: how would the basilisk know who is pureblood and who's
> muggle-born? I get the impression that once it was released, it was 
pretty
> much on it's own; I really don't see either Tom or Ginny walking 
beside
> it, or riding it, in order to pick and chose who lives or dies.
> 
> -kel


Kel,

I'm not sure where you see that I said it was stricktly after 
mudbloods.  I said it was out for blood in general, looking for 
whatever it could get.  But I believe that if it were some sated, 
then it could travel (although for what purpose I don't know.  
Basilisks can have fun too can't they :o) )  and choose not to kill 
something.  I'm not quite certain I agree with something that was 
said before, where Tom apparently said for the Basilisk to kill Harry 
only after Harry could no longer see it.  I mean, Harry was not 
actually wearing the sorting hat immediately.  True, he did have his 
eyes closed.  In the American COS p 319 "Something soft hit his 
face.  The basilisk had swept the Sorting Hat into Harry's arms."  As 
powerful as Riddle was at the moment, he could have somehow forced 
Harry to simply open his eyes if this were the case, why send a 
hunking huge snake who you would think would be a bit cumbersome 
after Harry?  

I also do not know where it states that the Basilisk was extremely 
huge at the time when Riddle first used him.  Perhaps he did indeed 
raise it, making it easier for it to travel.

MrsBonsai (Julie)