Who Hatched the Basilisk? was Re: Heir versus Descendant of Slytherin

[potioncat]

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> Moonmyyst:
> > I cannot wait until we find out how he figured out to even start 
> looking for something that no one thought existed and probably 
wasn't 
> even thought about for many, many years.  No one, from what I can 
> tell, knew about it in Harry's class, so I want to know how he even 
> knew to start looking.
> 
> Geoff:
> Possibly by digging around in the library at Hogwarts - it might 
even 
> be in "Hogwarts, a History", that oft-mentioned but never seen 
> tome!!! It wasn't as if no one knew about the Chamber. Binns kne 
> about it, so presumably did other teaching staff.
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Potioncat:
It's come up a few times that Salazar must have been pretty wicked to 
have left a monster in the school.  It doesn't really fit with his 
being friends with the other founders, does it?  I mean it's one 
thing to have a falling out, but to leave a monster?

I wonder if there is any chance that the legend was just that?  
Perhaps there was a chamber, but no monster. Tom Riddle found it and 
hatched a basilisk in the chamber?  There are chickens on the grounds 
and lots of toads or is it frogs that's needed?

Any thoughts?
Potioncat