What's wrong with Mrs. Norris?/Ginny's riddle (Was: Colin Creevy/The Basilisk attacks)

[Juleczka]

No: HPFGUIDX 113231

> DuffyPoo :
> In CoS, Riddle says "She [Ginny] set the Serpent of Slytherin on four
> Mudbloods, and the Squib's cat."  Ginny was the one setting the
> basilisk on people, she knew who were Muggle-borns and who were not
>

Julia now:

It strucks me odd that the basilisk attacked the "Squib's cat". What for?
Why did Riddle want to do it? And how did he know that Filch is actually a
squib. Was it some kind of revange on Filch? Maybe Riddle hated Filch and
Mrs Norris as much as everybody else? But wait a second... wasn't then in
Hogwart a different guy? I remember Molly saying something about him...
Maybe it isn't important but still interesting :)
I thought that Filch being a Squib is some kind of a secret but it turns out
that even young Riddle knows it...

Another thought came to my mind while analyzing Tom's words. Why did nobody
actually get killed? Was it a coincidence that all five of them saw the
basilisk in some kind of refection? If it was really Ginny setting the
basilisk on them then she wasn't really effective... Or maybe she has powers
"that Dark Lord knows not"? :D Maybe in some way she was protecting her
schoolmates (and animals :) by creating such situations in which nobody
would get seriously harmed? Even under Riddle's influence she could think
properly... very impressive.
It's just my thought... What do you think?

Julia