Was Harry in Danger from the Basilisk?

[zoe0coll]

No: HPFGUIDX 108714

SNIP!

Geoff:
> Re-reading this, it is taking on much more significance in my mind. 
> Does this mean that Dumbledore knows about the Basilisk and is 
> speculating, knowing that Voldemort is apparently out of the 
> picture, as to which person now has the ability to open the Chamber?
> 
> Hmmm.


I think you're forgetting that Dumbledore doesn't actually know that 
Tom Riddle opened the chamber and set a Basilisk on Moaning Myrtle 
and the others.  Hagrid, with Aragog as the monster, was set up by 
Tom as the culprit, and was expelled for it, even though Dumbledore 
beleived he was innocent. Even if he suspected Tom, he had no proof, 
or would have done aomething about it at the time.  We have no cannon 
for anyone knowing that Tom was the culprit all along.  It is only 
with hindsight (at the end of COS) that Dumbledore knows for a fact 
that it was Riddle, due to Harry and Ginny's witness and the Diary 
itself. 

Zoe