Chamber of ....Secrets?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 185983

 
> Kemper now:
> Well, Tom is the only heir we know of.  There were probably more. 
> Maybe Tom was the most ambitious in learning all there was to know 
of
> Hogwarts.  Or, if his magical mum, uncle and granddaddy are any
> indication, perhaps he was the only competent Slytherin Hogwarts has
> seen since Salazar.


Potioncat:
And not every descendent is the heir...or even an heir. Whatever 
charm Slytherin put on the chamber, it must have not only required a 
certain set of traits in the wizard, but also a strong desire to open 
it. Riddle worked hard. Certainly more than being a Parselmouth was 
needed. Even though that's a rare gift, it must have existed between 
Slytherin and the Gaunts.

Back to the name. JKR may have called it Chamber of Secrets because 
she put some secrets into it. The diary was much more than a wicked 
book. It was a horcrux. The basilisk fang was more than a lost tooth, 
it was one of the few tools that could destroy a horcrux. And there's 
that bit of HBP that was to have been a part of CoS--but was 
postponed.

So, the name fits from what the chamber is to us, the readers, but it 
doesn't quite fit to my mind for the WW.