CHAPTER DISCUSSION: COS 14, Cornelius Fudge

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 189222



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" <hickengruendler at ...> wrote:
 
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> No, I don't think so. The Basilisk could have been everywhere, it was bad luck, that it was in the library. She could have told somebody about hr suspicion, and it was typically Hermione, that she went to the library first, but I don't think it was particularly rash or dangerous. In contrast, at least she managed to safe herself and Penelope Clearwater by using the mirror. Colin and Justin were saved by pure luck and coincidence, Hermione used her brain to save herself and another student.

Pippin:
I don't think anyone was saved by luck or coincidence. Riddle knew that if anyone was killed the school would be closed and the diary would be useless. Since Riddle's goal was to entice Harry to discover and enter the chamber, it would have been counterproductive to kill Hermione, or to take the slip of paper with its clue from her hand.

Pippin