Why give the diary to Ginny? Was: Why put the entrance to the CoS in a girls' ba

[justcarol67]

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Rai-chan wrote:

> I don't think Salazar Slytherin intentionally put the CoS in a
girl's bathroom. As I remembered from the book, Hogwarts was founded
over a thousand years ago...so probably it was not a bathroom before.
The builders probably couldn't open the door that led to the CoS so
they'd just laid the foundation over it. 
> 
> As for the girl theory, it was Lucius Malfoy who picked Ginny
Weasley as Riddle's victim maybe because Ginny's still a freshman and
was the most vulnerable (or she's the nearest when HP's group and
Lucius and Draco Malfoy met at the Diagon Alley).
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I think Lucius chose Ginny not just because she was the youngest and
presumably the most naive, but because a little girl is more likely
than a boy to confide in a diary. He may even have been astute enough
to realize that the boys had each other to share experiences with, but
Ginny as the lone girl in the family would have been somewhat left
out. Anyway, Lucius is an astute man and I think he chose the person
most likely to actually use the diary (and be ensnared by it). Sorry
if that sounds sexist, but as someone else noted recently, stereotypes
are based on fact.

Carol