C.O.S. Clues ; WAS Re: JKR website update

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 107853

> >>> Valky wrote:
> > But I wonder if now, armed with this new information, we can 
hold our concentration for longer til the end of the film and 
extract the answer from the Chamber scenes. <<<
> 
> 
> Bren now:
> 
> Hiya Valky!! ;P
> You know, reading your post reminded me of something I found 
mildly intriguing in the chamber scene in CoS movie.  Remember when 
Harry is running away from Basilisk, and he runs into a barred 
circle hole end in the chamber?  If Basilisk has been swimming 
around Hogwarts plumming, why is it blocked? 
> 
> So I was pondering... if there's an *entrance* to the chamber... 
> (are you thinking what I'm thinking...) is there an *exit* to the 
> chamber as well...  an exit that leads to outside of Hogwarts... 
> perhaps to the chamber room in Malfoy Mansion...
> 


Valky replies:
Hey Bren! 8D

You mean as in _how did Lucius get his hands on the Diary_ type 
entrance.

hmmmmm that does kinda inspire some thoughts. I had a discussion 
about this last year with a member I rarely see here anymore.
Its such an old discussion that I am actually reminiscing,... It was 
the first time I managed to sway a list member to consider an aspect 
of my personal character essay of Lucius that was entirely opposite 
to her own theory on the likewise aspect of his character...... well 
Pen never actually handed up her own opinion for good she merely 
conceded mine and even had some stuff ..... ooops waaaaay OT, sorry 
*blush*

Anyways, the character was Lucius of course and the _discuss canon_ 
was the diary and how it came into Lucius possession.
To cut a long story short, I believed that Lucius was the keeper of 
LV's possessions and many as sinister and grand as Toms own Diary, 
Other speculators were more ahderent to the notion that LV's 
treasure was most likely stowed in the Riddle house, which was Toms 
own, so therefore more apt to be the location. 
But that didn't really sit with me, for many reasons, most of all 
that I am sure Lucius' main objective in planting the diary at 
Hogwarts was a direct attempt on Harry's life. Which most didn't 
really agree with, but there you go. *shrug*

So without going into the extensive reams of my opinions and 
theories on Lucius himself, I must say that I agree, Lucius 
the 'slick talking silver tongue' that he is, was able to engender 
the trust of Voldemort. In my own case, to be keeper (haha another 
keeper for book 7!) of his magical possessions. (I go on to say that 
he has a swelled head and thinks that he will rule the WW side by 
side with the victorious LV but we wont go into that now ;D)  
I doubt he trusted the *Chamber* to the Malfoys, but still I see how 
you have connected Lucius to this thread as significant, sorry if I 
rambled a bit.

As for the Chamber having an exit, Bren, you have further inspired 
another muse for me. Recently, I have been contemplating whether LV 
may have been able to create himself an access route into Hogwarts 
through books 1 to 5. I supposed that, whilst Ginny was enchanted, 
Tom used her to cast a dissillusionment on one of the secret 
entrances into Hogwarts from Hogsmeade and vice versa. Specifically 
the one behind the mirror on the fourth floor. This is the one that 
mysteriously became blocked during the winter of book 2, the same 
winter Ginny was staggering around Hogwarts under Toms Possession!*.

Now supposing you are right and the blocked tunnel leads somewhere. 
Lets say, perhaps that it is not another *exit* per se but also 
_ANOTHER ENTRANCE_ to the Chamber, from Hogsmeade through the 4th 
floor secret tunnel and _STRAIGHT INTO THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS_

Yes indeed Bren something _very much_ to think about.
Always a Pleasure 
Best To You