Sally's Spirit WAS Re: Shared thoughts

[aggiepaddy]

No: HPFGUIDX 108707

Kneasy:
>SNIP>>>>>>> 
> As for "why wait a 1,000 years?" - only JKR  can answer that - 'cos
> canon has it that it hasn't been opened since Sally packed his wand
> and left in a marked manner. I can't argue with that.
>SNIP>>>>>>>>

Aggie:
Has it been proven in Canon that Tom Riddle *was* the only one to 
have opened the Chamber since Sally's time?

I've been skimming through CoS to try and find reference to the 
Chamber being opened;

Binns didn't even acknowledge it had been opened *at all!* Denied 
it's very existence!! (UK version pp114-115)

Then when Tom's explaining it via the diary he said that it was only 
considered a legend, that no-one believed it to be real.  Yet he 
found it and opened it.  Then, after he's framed Hagrid, he has to 
keep quiet about it.  He's given a trophy for his 'efforts' (spit's 
on ground) and is 'warned to keep my [Tom's] mouth shut'. (UK vers 
p180).

All this means that future students don't know anything about it. . . 
Until it happens again! 

Surely this *could* be construed to imply that it has been opened 
before, but hushed up as with the time Tom opened it.

Thin reasoning, I know, but that's what it's all about!  ;o)