What's wrong with Mrs. Norris?/Ginny's riddle

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 113526

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Julia" <jolka55 at p...> wrote:
> 
> > > > 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
> > > >


> > MAC:
> 
> > I always felt in reading of CoS that Ginny was being used simply
> > to open the chamber. DiaryTom could take it from there.
> > 
> > If this ISN'T true then why would Ginny not get herself petrified 
> > ....
> > 
> Mac

 
> Julia:
> Hmm...I've thought that Ginny didn't open her eyes in the chamber...
> ....edited... 

> 
> Julia


bboyminn:

First, let's remember that it's not looking at or being looked at by a
Basilisk that is dangerous. It's looking into the Basilisk's eyes. Not
looking at them, but looking into them. (Fantasic Beasts... "Anyone
looking DIRECTLY into these (eyes) will suffer instant death.") So,
there is a difference between seeing someone's eyes and seeing into them. 

Until Tom has sufficient corporal form to at least be ghost-like, he
would have had to rely on Ginny's body in order to move around. And
that is clearly what he did. Ginny does not remember killing the
roosters or writing on the wall. At those times, Tom had taken over
her body and was using it. 

In order to open the Chamber and direct the Basilisk, Tom would have
needed a voice. He had no body, therefore, he had no voice, and I
doubt that the Basilisk can read. So, he possessed Ginny and used her
body to transport himself, and used her voice to direct the events.

It was only in the Chamber in the final chapters where Tom had grown
strong enough to manifest some degree of corporal form, and he was
doing that by draining the life from Ginny. Something he was not able
to do previously, although he may have had the ability, because he
still needed Ginny. Once down in the Chamber, Ginny's life, body, and
voice became insignificant, and getting ready to confront Harry became
his priority.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)