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

[Silverthorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 99262

Potioncat:

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?


Silverthorne:

Interesting idea that Salazar did not actaully leave the basilisk behind (although I think he did but also think that perhaps maybe the basilisk was originally approved by all the founders--perhaps to keep the castle protect way abck then--after all, the world was more more violent and 'eat or be eaten' back then so to speak..;)

As for how to hatch one:

A Rooster must lay the egg--during a certain phase of the moon, a lot of legends say, but I can't remember what phase off the top of my head...
It must be buried in a dung heap
It then must be tended by a toad (or some legends say a snake) until the egg hatches.

Silverthorne/Anne



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