Timeline for Why did Salazar Slytherin arm the Chamber of Secrets with a Basilisk?
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| Sep 20, 2019 at 23:39 | history | edited | Invisible Trihedron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2019 at 16:27 | answer | added | user13267 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:49 | comment | added | user13267 | I don't think there is enough evidence in the books to prove either way | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:48 | comment | added | TheAsh | @user13267 If you feel that way, and can prove the Basilisk's strength as a weapon to rid the school of hundreds of mudbloods from the books, please write an answer. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:46 | comment | added | user13267 | "@user13267 its still an awful weapon." that's just opinion. I'd say it was pretty effective. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:45 | comment | added | user13267 | " " to finish the noble work Slytherin started (rid the school of mudbloods)." There was no evidence he started it, as if he had try to kill a student he would have been forced out far earlier." I am just going by what we know about the CoS's lore, based on the information we are given in the book. I am not saying whether it was true or false (or even trying to imply it was actually a noble work or not) | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:44 | comment | added | TheAsh | @user13267 its still an awful weapon. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:44 | comment | added | user13267 | ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever man. Sounds to me like Riddle sent the basilisk on the prowl in all those cases, it didn't just go out on it's own on a rampage. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:44 | comment | added | TheAsh | " to finish the noble work Slytherin started (rid the school of mudbloods)." There was no evidence he started it, as if he had try to kill a student he would have been forced out far earlier. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:42 | comment | added | TheAsh | "We have seen that in every appearance of the basilisk mentioned in the book, it did not go on a killing rampage. " Reread the book. It attacked Colin, Nick and others without being told to. " Riddle takes credit for the other attacks as well" not for ordering them, but for allowing it to happen. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:42 | comment | added | user13267 | " " the basilisk ended up surviving, unnoticed, for more than 1000 years." doing nothing. If the purpose was to eliminate those unworthy of being taught, it failed. For over a thousand years. " As Riddle mentioned, it was supposed to be eventually used by Slytherin's true heir, as a weapon, to finish the noble work Slytherin started (rid the school of mudbloods). It wasn't supposed to act on it's own . | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:41 | comment | added | user13267 | We have seen that in every appearance of the basilisk mentioned in the book, it did not go on a killing rampage. During the final confrontation Riddle tells Harry that he ordered the basilisk to attack the squibs cat, and if I remember correctly, Riddle takes credit for the other attacks as well | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:40 | comment | added | TheAsh | " the basilisk ended up surviving, unnoticed, for more than 1000 years." doing nothing. If the purpose was to eliminate those unworthy of being taught, it failed. For over a thousand years. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:39 | comment | added | user13267 | ...And the basilisk is not a creature with a no thinking brain, it's smart enough to understand and follow instructions from it's master. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:39 | comment | added | user13267 | "Avada Kedavra" doesn't sound like the sort of thing school children would be able to do just from instructions. He himself would only have been able to remove only those muggleborns that were in the school while he himself was there, the basilisk ended up surviving, unnoticed, for more than 1000 years. It could also be controlled by Slytherins heir, putting up instructions for something like instructions to a general killing spell would have made it possible for any competent enough wizard to be able to do it. ... | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:34 | comment | added | TheAsh | @user13267 if the intended purpose was to remove Muggles from school, as Tom Riddle states, he should have done it either himself, or left instructions how to do "Avada Kedavra". He should not have left a creature that has no thinking brain and can barely travel across the school and cannot discriminate against muggles as the weapon. That leaves to think Slytherin had a different purpose in mind with his snake. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 11:00 | comment | added | user13267 | His weapon ended up existing for a 1000 years, effectively only controlled by his heir (or his bloodline, whatever you might want to call it). What else do you suggest he should have put in place, that would have been equally effective? | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 19:33 | answer | added | Obsidia | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 17:36 | comment | added | TheAsh | @NKCampbell I agree with you - hence my theory. But I want to know what (most people think to be) current canon thinks. | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 17:33 | comment | added | NKCampbell | don't forget to account for a thousand years of re-interpretation and misunderstanding to have crept in. All we know of what Slytherin intended w/ the Chamber and the creature is what Riddle (who is unreliable to say the least) says. He could a) be lying b) be applying his own dogma to another wise perfectly harmless situation (maybe it was originally just to keep spiders out?) | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 16:53 | comment | added | Punintended | Don't have the quote(s) to make this worthy of a full answer, but I'm pretty sure Riddle's diary mentions how Salazar chose a creature that, thanks to being Parseltongues, only his descendants would be able to control | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 16:45 | comment | added | TheAsh | @Valorum Making a hidden chamber for a heir with a weapon that defeats the purpose - when he could've done it himself - yeah, too much even for HP. | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 16:44 | comment | added | Valorum | a "needlessly complicated" plot in Harry Potter? Never! | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 16:38 | history | asked | TheAsh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |