[HPforGrownups] Re: Who Hatched the Basilisk?

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 99938

Curious Susan writes:

| So here's my question.  Why, if the basilisk had been in the Chamber
| for so long, were the spiders just then fleeing?  Wouldn't they have
| fled long before the Chamber was open? Surely as spiders, they could
| have gotten out long before now, and if not, wouldn't they all have
| been eaten by the basilisk?  Isn't that why they were fleeing in the
| first place?

Perhaps the spiders were just in the castle.  So long as the chamber was
still closed, the serpent couldn't get to them.  Now that the chamber was
opened, the lives of the spiders were in danger.

Another possibility is that the spiders weren't so much afraid of being
eaten but afraid of some magical ability of the basilisk.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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