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

[Derek Hiemforth]

No: HPFGUIDX 86590


>Geoff:
>Several weeks go, I raised a point about Fawkes attacking the 
>basilisk's eyes and not getting killed in COS.
[snip]
>Carol:
>I think he must have communicated with it before he saw it. Harry
>heard it talking to itself ("Kill! Kill! Kill!" or whatever) as it
>slithered through pipes. Maybe Tom heard it before he saw it and was
>able to communicate with it, even command it not to harm him.

Derek:
Harry only hears it in the pipes after Diary!Tom (through Ginny)
awakens it again.  He didn't hear it in his entire first year, for
example.  So I don't think Tom would have heard it by chance; I
think he would have had to go into the Chamber and call it forth
before it would be gallivanting through the plumbing.  :)

It seems more likely to me that he simply knew (somehow) what it
was and where to find it, and went there prepared to deal with its
effects until he could control it.

- Derek