[HPforGrownups] Basillisk

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In a message dated 4/12/2005 12:30:45 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
rowanbrookt at hotmail.com writes:

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?






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Chancie:
 
A Basilisk is, basically, a snake.  Salazar Slytherin spoke Parsel  tongue,
just as Tom Riddle and of course Harry can.  The CoS was to be  opened
by someone who could also speak Parsel tongue, or else they wouldn't 
be able to open the chamber at all.  This ability allowed Tom the  ability 
to control the basilisk.  
 
Is that what you were looking for, or did you have some other  wonderings?
 


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