[HPforGrownups] Re: What's annoying about Harry (WAS: Characters you hate)

[Trond Michelsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 51388

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:37:35PM -0000, Grey Wolf <greywolf1 at jazzfree.com> wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that all the teachers had realised that 
>>> the monster was a basilisk by now (OK, all except Lockhart). 
>> There's no canon to support that. Is that just a MD thing?

> It has nothing to do with MD (little of CoS has). Let me expose the 
> facts:
> 1) the creature is the pet of Salazar Slytherin, famous parseltongue, 
> whose heraldic symbol is a snake
> 2) the creature paralizes.
> 
> I had figured myself that the creature was a basilisk after the attack 
> on Mrs Norris, and I didn't even know point 1 at the time. Dumbledore 
> has been through one series of attacks already. It would take an idiot 
> not to know by then that the creature was a basilisk, after all the 
> details Dumbledore has, and Dumbledore is *NOT* an idiot.

Aren't you forgetting about Hagrid's expultion? If it was common
knowledge that the creature HAD to be a Basilisk, then why didn't anyone
realize that Hagrid and his Acromantula was innocent when he was
expelled?

Hagrid was even arrested after the second to last attack, and even
though Dumbledore protested, he made no comment about how the creature
would have to be completely different from the creature Hagrid had
as a pet when he supposedly opened the chamber the last time.

-- 
Trond Michelsen