The Falling-Out of the Hogwarts Four

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126040


 Lindsay  wrote:
> The problem I have, personally, about all the stories we have heard
> about the Founders - save the Sorting Hat, who is the only primary
> source we can really have - is that these stories are about people
> that lived a thousand years ago, spread by word of mouth.
> 
> We only have the Sorting Hat to tell us any truth of the matter.  I
> think we can reasonably assume the Salazar Slytherin *built* the
> Chamber of Secrets - after all, it is no small feat to have a large
> underground chamber to be built after the fact, and have its
> construction and origins secret.

a_svirn:

Yes, I agree
> 
> But do we even know if Salazar left the basilisk?  It is called, 
after
> all, the Chamber of Secrets - not the Chamber of Death or etc.  The
> term "secrets" indicates *potentially* harmful information only, 
but
> there is nothing malicious about it at all, and I would think that 
if
> you built a chamber to house a giant, murderous snake, you would 
call
> it something a bit different than "Chamber of Secrets."  That is, 
of
> course, my opinion.  

a_svirn:

I think it's called "chamber of secretS", plural for a reason. I do 
believe that it was Salazar who'd left Basilisk – it makes perfect 
sense since he was a Parselmouth after all, and his heir was 
supposed to be a Parselmouth too. Which means that they were the 
only ones who could control the monster.   I don't think, however, 
that Basilisk was the main reason to build the chamber. Rather, I 
think that he was placed there to GUARD something. Monsters are 
often employed in that way. And I wouldn't be surprised if Harry 
would have to descend to the chamber again to learn the secret he 
(and LV) overlooked first time.

a_svirn