[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherin-Ever So Evil after all?

[EnsTren at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 69166

In a message dated 7/10/2003 2:35:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hickengruendler at yahoo.de writes:


> > I never believed Slytherin himself was an evil man. I thought that 
> the rumors of his being a vile Pureblood fanatic in the same vein s 
> the Malfoys and Blacks was based on 1000 years--his views get 
> distorted from, perhaps, mistrust of muggle-born students to full-
> blown racism. Bah. 
> 
> But he built the Chamber of Secrets and had the Basilisk hidden in 
> it. This is more than mistrust and even more than racism. It's 
> planned murder. So I would say he was indeed an evil man.

If it was planned murder then why did it take 1000 years for the thing to 
kill someone?

Sal is cunning, he could have just kept his trap shut about the chamber and 
wait until his desendants opened it up and sprung it on an unsuspecting 
Hogwarts.

And don't give me "He locked it up."  The basilisk ate, there were all those 
small animal bones all over left over from its meals.  If it could do that, it 
certainly could have ate some kids, but it never did.

Okay, let's say a praslemouth has to open the doors so the snake can get out 
of the pipes.    Obviously if something that big can kill people out in the 
halls and not be noticed it's very good at hiding, and the doors are in very 
good places.

Imagine how hard it would be to find a baby basilisk.

If Sal wanted to kill people he would have made it so the snake could open 
the doors itself.  Instead it appears it specifically ordered it not to kill 
anyone unless ordered.


Nemi
       --Black Dragon
       --Slasher and Yaoist
       --Utterly Psycotic


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