Chamber of ....Secrets?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 186015


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> Potioncat:
> From inside the story, the name doesn't make sense. (imho) The legend says Slytherin left a monster in a hidden chamber. And somewhere along the line, it developed the name, "Chamber of Secrets." If the legend had been that Slytherin had a chamber that he used to practice his Dark Magic, and write his notes, and he left a monster in the chamber when he left, and maybe his notes are still there too---then Chamber of Secrets makes sense.

Pippin:
But it could have happened that way.  Maybe before Slytherin left the school, there was a rumor that he had constructed a secret chamber for just the purposes you suggest, and after he left, people said he had left a monster in there. Maybe some of his students had even been in the room, but couldn't find it or enter it again after he left, not being parselmouths and fearing the monster or other traps that Slytherin might have left to guard it. 

It never made sense to me that Slytherin would have constructed a giant statue of himself and never showed it to anyone.  

Pippin