Basilisk (Was: Re: Arranged wizard marriages?)

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 97286

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" wrote:...Does 
that mean Ginny was nearby each time to be TR's "eyes"? How was she 
able to hide each time before Harry and the others found the 
petrified bodies?...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

There were only four attacks (Colin, Mrs. Norris, Justin and NHN, 
Hermione and Penelope Clearwater) and none occurred while the victim 
was in a group. So it's conceivable that Ginny could have been 
lurking in the shadows and just pointed out a person she knew to be a 
muggleborn and hissed "sic 'em!" Then she slips back into the 
shadows. Of course, all the attacks had to take place near a lavatory 
(are the showers/baths in the same room as the toilets?) so the 
basilisk could get to the rendevous point.

Then again, maybe this is one of those plot points that doesn't bear 
close scrutiny. Like the nuns used to tell us in third grade: "Take 
it on faith." There's a lot in *The Books* that I, as an adult, 
prefer not to think about too much.

--JDR (going to lie down now because she pulled a muscle suspending a 
huge load of disbelief)