Voldemort, the Prophecy and the HBP

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 110352

> Pippin wrote:
> Hmmm... I agree about the timing of the transformations. 
> However, Salazar wasn't like Voldemort to begin with. Riddle, 
> according to the latest from Edinburgh, never cared about 
> anybody, and couldn't have become what he is if he had. But 
> Salazar was a great friend of Godric Gryffindor. Possibly Salazar 
> summoned the daemon and was possessed for a while, but  
> fought off the possession and trapped the daemon in the  the 
> basilisk and the basilisk in the chamber.  He then  fled the 
> school so that the other Founders wouldn't find out what he had 
> done.  The basilisk's life would have been shortened thereby, but 
> since basilisks live a very long time (FBAWTFT), it managed to 
> survive  until Riddle arrived. 
> 
> Riddle was then possessed by the daemon, and he knew that 
> his life would be short unless he could magically transform 
> himself into an immortal being. Just IMO, that is.


Mandy again:
You know I hadn't thought about Salazar in that way before, and I 
have succumb to the 'He's a Slytherin and therefore must be evil' 
prejudice.  Which is ironic considering it's the house I most 
identify with and am always defending!   

We don't have any reason to believe Salazar was 'evil', and one could 
argue he did care enough about children to want to educate them.  
OTOH, you could also argue he wanted to use the school as a boot camp 
for a pureblood army, but then why would he have gone to the trouble 
for forming a school with Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw if he 
was indeed so completely against the education of non-purebloods?   
If he hated non-purebloods that much he wouldn't he have sort-out 
other partners more appreciative of his cause?  It does appear that 
somewhere Salazar changed.   Or, perhaps, I'm not crediting him with 
enough evil genius.   Perhaps Salazar was a SEB (Supreme Evil Being) 
in disguise, and from the very beginning joined forces with the other 
three to create a seemingly harmless school, when in fact his 
intention all along was to create the evil Chamber of Secrets inside 
to reek havoc and destruction 1000 years later on all non-purebloods 
kids? 

I just don't know, but I am interested in your daemon possessor. Any 
ideas on who or what it is?

Cheers Mandy