If DD knows, then why...?

[witchwriter_no1]

No: HPFGUIDX 94114

> Potioncat also wondered:
> > Why do you think DD knew Tom Riddle opened the Chamber?  I'm sure 
> > he knew Hagrid didn't but what did he know for certain? How would 
> > he know it was a basilisk? Perhaps he tried to talk to Myrtle, but 
> > didn't learn anything. Harry had a difficult enough time getting 
> > her to talk and she may not have talked to a professor.  For that 
> > matter, DD may have been hampered in his investigation in the 
> > early days by Headmaster Dippit 
> 
> 
> SUSAN AGAIN:
> Yes, I think these are good questions as well.  Is there something 
> in canon which makes people *sure* DD knew Tom opened the Chamber 
> and what was within it, or is it the "all-knowing DD" assumption?  
> It certainly seems he *should* have tried speaking w/ Myrtle.  Would 
> DD have "ways" of making a ghost answer questions??

Witch Writer:

   I am all with potioncat on this. There is no way DD would have 
known that the Chamber was opened by Tom Riddle and the monsterous 
creature dwelling inside was a Basilisk. He didnt have so many clues 
to work with. Only one incident happened and that was the death of 
Myrtle. He does not know parsel tounge and thus couldnt have know 
that a snake is moving in the wall(through pipes). He couldnt have 
figured out people are petrified if not seen in the eye. I am sure he 
had one clue though, that spiders flee from it. But is that enough. 
And sure enough DD would have known Hagrid didnt do that murder.

   DD sure would have quizzed the ghost, but what can he find out? 
That she was killed by big yellow eyes and a boy was whispering some 
thing weird. It could have been any language she didnt understand. 
And as DD couldnt have figured out its a snake and moves through 
plumbing, couldnt have understood or rather concluded that seeing the 
yellow eyes near the sink had anything to do with the entrance being 
located. 

Witch Writer ... always looking out for strange new clues