Malkin/meanSnape/Darrin Slytherins/Smartest atHogwarts/Alliteration/Rosmerta

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57656

Gisthar: 
> Crabbe and Goyle aren't smart enough to think of it, but either of 
> them would do it for Draco if asked. However, as some Draco said in 
> some fanfic: "I don't know if that means they're loyal or just 
> thick."  

It would not occur to Crabbe and Goyle not only because they are 
thick, but because self-sacrifice wouldn't occur to them. Self-
sacrifice is hardly a Slytherin trait. 


> Darrin wrote:
> 
> << It was old Salazar who left behind a giant, Muggle-killing snake 
> because he didn't want anyone but purebloods attending school. >>
> 
> You are jumping to conclusion about what old Salazar intended! He 
did  leave the school because of a conflict with Godric that started 
with> Salazar's desire to limit admission to students who had been 
raised in the wizarding world; according to Binns, Salazar's reason 
was fear of Muggle attacks, not any belief that Muggle-borns are 
inferior. 
> 

You are also jumping to a conclusion. The text tells us, on CoS pg 
114, that Salazar thought Muggle-borns were "untrustworthy."

Yeah, and Hitler thought the Jews were untrustworthy too. 

> He did leave the basilisk behind in his Chamber of Secrets, but we 
> have only the psychotic TMR's word that his reason for leaving the 
> basilisk was to kill "Mudbloods". He may well have intended the 
> Basilisk to be used as defense against any army that attacked the 
> school, or that the Basilisk remain in the Chamber to guard 
whatever  OTHER secrets he had hidden there. 
> 

Actually, we hear it from Binns too, recounting the legend. Also on 
page 114:

"The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets, 
unleash the horror wihin and use it to purge the school of all who 
were unworthy to study magic."

As far as Salazar leaving the basilisk for school defense, what's the 
point of setting up a school defense in a chamber that only two 
students in 1,000 years can even get to? Wouldn't do a lot of good if 
the Muggles attacked when the Heir wasn't attending, would it?

Darrin