Hagrid/the Chamber/the Monster

[Debbie McLain <debmclain@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49912

Sherry Garfio <sgarfio at y...> wrote:
The fact that people were being petrified rather
> than killed in CoS confused everybody, and the reason was that 
people weren't
> getting the full effect of the Basilisk's stare.  Could be that in 
Dippet's day
> they just assumed that Aragog hadn't gotten a good hold on the 
petrified students, so they also didn't get the full effect.
> 
> You would think, however, that those students would have talked 
after they were
> restored ("No, it was a snake, not a spider"), unless their 
memories of the
> attacks were erased by the petrification.  I don't recall Hermione 
saying
> anything about her actual attack; she knew it was a Basilisk 
already, but she
> never says anything about actually seeing it in her mirror.  
Anyway, seeing how
> the Trio's accounts of the events in PoA and GoF are discounted by 
adults other
> than Dumbledore, the students who claimed they were attacked by a 
snake may
> have been ignored at the time, since they already "knew" it was 
Aragog and
> these kids were likely confused.


Me:
Sherry, I thought the only attack was the death of Myrtle. I didn't 
think anyone else was attacked. 

Okay, I'm wrong. 

Tom Riddle: "In my fifth year, the Chamber was opened and the monster 
attacked several students, finally killing one."

Seems to me the MoM just likes to hurry up and make people happy 
(see, we caught the student), and not do a thorough job with a full 
investigation. Possibly why Fudge is now in charge, since he's really 
Evil!Fudge.  :-)  I think you are right and they just discounted the 
other students recalls (it was a snake, you idiot, not a spider!) 
thinking they were too distraught to know what they were saying.

-Debbie
doing the happy dance along with everyone else