Basillisk

Tue Apr 12 19:23:33 UTC 2005

No: HPFGUIDX 127461

I was re-reading HPATCOS last night and wondered how did Salazar 
Slytherin plan for the basillisk to only kill muggle born witches and 
wizards.  Surely the basillisk would just kill anyone who happened to 
look at it as it searched for muggle borns.  The book does say that 
Ginny controlled by Tom riddle was setting the basillisk on muggle 
borns specifically, but that doesn't seen satisfactory to me.  Any 
ideas?