Saving Ginny (was Re: Lockhart's incompetence)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 143257

 
> Alla:
 
> My biggest problem is that teachers were NOT doing anything except 
> urging Gilderoy to go there ( yeah, most likely they were not 
> sincere), but I would expect a bit more action from truly competent 
> adults.
> 
> I also think that it is way to early to conclude that Ginny is dead.
>

Pippin:
What part of "Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber for ever" would
make them think the Heir hadn't killed this time?  I could add 
that knowing the monster was a basilisk didn't save Hermione.

The thoughtful reader has a clue that the adults aren't quite as 
dumb as Harry and Ron think they are. The message does
not say who was taken, but McGonagall has discovered that it was
Ginny. JKR can't show us the investigation which produced this
knowledge  without creating a plot hole and slowing down the story 
to account for it, because she would have had to describe a search that 
discovered Ginny's absence without exposing Harry and Ron's.

Pippin