CoS question was: Re: Dumbledore evil??

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 105076

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" 
<baseball_07_05 at y...> wrote:

> Well then how would Tom Riddle have found it? It would've 
needed to  be 'wanted to be found' otherwise Tom wouldn't be 
able to find it. Unless it could say, I want to be found but not by 
teachers. If you  look at it this way the teachers would have been 
able to find it,  but once again there is the parcelmouth thing. It
in 
itself seems as  good as any at stopping people from entering 
the chamber.<

The Mirror of Erised was selective about who could retrieve the 
Stone. It would release it only to one who wanted to find it but not 
use it. The Chamber might be enchanted in a similar fashion but 
to the opposite effect -- so that wanting to find it wouldn't be 
enough--you *would* have to want to use it. 

Although one must be a parselmouth to open the chamber, it is 
hard to see why Dumbledore and all the other searchers 
wouldn't have talked to Myrtle, and having done so, investigated 
the broken tap and found the snake as easily as Harry 
did--unless the snake wasn't normally that easy to find.  

Pippin