Chapter 27 Discussion / Why LV is bad / How TMR found the CoS / Cup Soul Bit

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184184

> Carol responds:
> 
> Anyway, I'd have created some sort of magical container (something
> like Nagini's bubble?) for the one Basilisk fang needed for the
tiara, the Sword of Gryffindor being unavailable. Hermione can conjure
> crystal vial out of the air for Snape's memories; I don't see why
she couldn't conjure some poison-proof container with a handle just as
> easily. 

Pippin:


Um, touching the fangs isn't dangerous. Harry pulled one out of his
arm and used it to stab the diary with no ill effects.  The venom,
OTOH, can destroy any magical container it touches, except one.
Hermione was carrying it the only way she could, in the only container
that could safely hold it: a basilisk fang. 

And since basilisk venom destroys even the most powerful magical
container, (that's what a horcrux *is*), it should certainly have
disposed of the shield around Nagini. Whether it would then still have
the capacity to kill the snake herself, I am not sure, which would be
a good reason for having another fang, or two or three -- why leave
them in the chamber for Voldemort? They don't expect to be able to
keep him out of Hogwarts, remember. They're only hoping to hold him
off long enough to find the hidden horcrux and get out. 

Carol:
(I would not have considered killing Nagini with a Basilisk
> fang--far too dangerous).

Pippin:
Um, who says you have to use the fang like a dagger? Why not mount it
on a shaft, and make a spear? 

BTW, if Draco wished for himself and Goyle to be rescued from the
flames, then the Room fulfilled his desire. I suppose Crabbe was too
panicky to wish for anything, or perhaps he wished for something the
Room could not grant, like extinguishing the fire.  

 I like your idea that the Room could have provided the brooms for
Harry, because it explains how Voldemort could think he was the only
one who had discovered the RoR. He could have thought all that junk
was conjured just for him.

Pippin