[HPforGrownups] What, Voldemort Kill Myrtle ? (Was Re: Moaning Myrtle is Harry's aunt on James's

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 167749

> Annemehr:
> Nah.  The Basilisk did not have an innocent purpose, like a welding
> torch does.  Riddle summoned it to kill, and it did.  That's murder.

It's an animal, it doesn't have to have any kind of purpose. And we
don't know what was going through Riddle's mind, whether the intent to
use it to kill had formed prior to that moment

--Random832