[HPforGrownups] Re: Basilisk and Pure Blood

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49587

In a message dated 10/01/2003 19:53:05 Eastern Standard Time, 
Audra1976 at aol.com writes:


> << > Another question: If the "monster", in the chamber of secrets 
> was supposed to rid the school of those that were not of pureblood, 
> then why was Tom Riddle himself not attacked by it? >>
> 
> Me:
> 
> Simply because the bailisk was to obey the heir of Slytherin, and Tom 
> Riddle 
> was the heir, pureblood or not.
> 

Also, important to remember that Riddle/Voldie was/is a parseltongue. He 
could communicate with the Basilisk. ;)

-Snuffles
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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