Durmstrang and the heirs of Slytherin

[tiger_queen429]

No: HPFGUIDX 58745

Why was Tom Riddle the one to open the Chamber of Secrets? It has 
been around for nearly a thousand years: why did one of Riddle's 
ancestors not open the Chamber before him? Over the thousand years, 
the members of Slytherin's family would have known more about the 
chamber and how to open than Riddle and could have done it at any 
time. The reason why it was not done before was because no member oft 
the Slytherin family actually attended Hogwarts. I think that when 
Slytherin left Hogwarts; he created a school based on his ideal of 
who was worthy to study magic- Durmstrang (Malfoy stated that 
Durmstrang does not accept Muggle-borns). Thus Slytherin's desendants 
would have attended the school that the head of their family line 
created  based on his beliefs. Riddle might not have been accepted to 
Durmstrang because he was only a half-blood. Perhaps the Headmaster 
of Durmstrang or some other person approached Riddle and told him he 
was the last remaining heir of Slytherin and told him of the 
existence of the Chamber of Secrets. Because he was an orphan, Riddle 
would not have know about his family's history learning that he was 
the heir of Slytherin and that he was not of pure enough blood to 
belong in Durmstrang would have started him on a path towards 
resentment of Muggles and his own tainted blood that lead him to 
become Voldemort. 

Tiger Queen