Book Two Discoveries!

[abadgerfan2]

No: HPFGUIDX 112223

Salit wrote:
> Two other things that showed up in book 2 but not since: the Chamber
> of Secrets itself - I find it hard to believe that the only secret
> there was the hidden basilisk and entrance - and Harry's parceltongue

I also suspect that there is more than just the basilisk secret 
involved in the Chamber -- hence, the use of the word in the plural 
in JKR's title (Chamber of Secrets); that would be unnecessary if the 
basilisk was the only secret hidden inside its walls. 

I throw out a theory for scrutiny. Late in Book 2, Dumbledore makes 
clear that Riddle "is" (emphasis in the book itself, Scholastic, 
bottom of p. 332) the last remaining ancestor of Slytherin ... could 
Harry turn out to be the last remaining ancestor of Godric 
Gryffindor, with his lineage to Gryffindor (the half-blood prince)  
disclosed in Book 6 as an added reason for the till-the-death rivalry 
between Voldemort and Potter? Perhaps the Chamber contains a record 
of a curse between Gryffindor and Slytherin connected with their 
parting of the ways, with the curse to be resolved by the eventual 
extinction of one of their lines of ancestry at the hands of the 
other!

Jim