Basilisks (was Re: Bang! You're dead.)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 86557

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
> <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Carol:
> > ...dited... Young Tom Riddle ... had already committed another
> > effortless murder using a basilisk, ...edited...

> 
> Geoff:
>  Several weeks go, I raised a point about Fawkes attacking the 
> basilisk's eyes and not getting killed in COS.
> 
> Reading this post threw up a thought in the same sort of direction. 
> How did Tom Riddle manage to communicate with the creature back in 
> 1942 or thereabouts? ... Did he talk over his shoulder to it? 
> ...I wonder how much information he had as the Heir of Sltherin 
> about it and from where he got this information. Was it passed down 
> by word of mouth? Did Salazar leave something in writing?
> 
> Just thinking aloud....
> 
> Geoff

bboy_mn:

Here are a couple of links to previous discussions on the mysteries of
the Basilisk's deadly stare-

Date: Sat Aug 23, 2003
Subject: Re: Myrtle's glasses, Basilisk, Camera, Ghost
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/78537

Date: Mon Sep 22, 2003
Subject: Re: Fawkes and the basilisk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/81291

Like you, these threads ask more question than answers.

The truth is we don't know how the Basilisk's Deadly Stare works,
maybe the Basilisk has to have deadly intent for it to work. Maybe it
has to be direct eye-to-eye contacts; simply seeing or being seen by a
basilisk may not be enough.

I know that doesn't help much, but I thought you might find what was
said previously on this subject interesting.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn