I did read your essay P, a few months ago. I haven't yet read the HBP as of yet (I live in Turkey and Amazon hasn't delivered it yet) so i don't know if it touches the issue of Founders. About Aragog, i would think Dumbledore would put wards keeping them out of school, especially after the basilisk died. The question is were there any giant spiders before Aragog as he calls the others his children...
On another note, we don't exactly know how parseltounge works. Is it the ability to talk to snakes or is it the ability to command snakes? And Harry didnot try talking to the basilisk, either. In the movie, Tom tells him parseltounge wouldn't help him with his Basilisk, but i don't trust anything Tom or Voldemort says. This is important because in what ways would a basilisk protect the school other than eating dangerous beasts and scaring away spiders? For instance, if Hogwarts was under attack, how would a basilisk react? You can't depend on a parseltounge with it because they are very rare. But it's also far-fetched to think this is Salazar's master plan to wipe out muggle-borns.
By the way, i've been a fan of your thories for some time and i based some of my essays on IMDb HBP board on your theories. I of course credited you and gave your link along with it. Hope you don't mind. About this essay, i honestly didn't remember about it, i was more focused on your ideas about patronages and Barty Crouch and Lucius Malfoy.
The ability to speak to snakes. Remember, Harry spoke a whole conversation with a snake in book 1, and Voldie's family apparently uses Parseltongue to each other all the time.
I'm not so sure. Of course it's the ability to talk to snakes. But when Harry tells the snake not to attack Justin, he is pretty sure the snake got the massage. If that's the case, i wonder whot would happen if two different parseltounges told the same snake to do different things. The basilisk certainly seemed he was taking orders from possesed Ginny and Tom himself. And Nagini is unusually loyal to Voldemort, but Harry doesn't try parseltounge in the grave yard, either, which is a little suspicious on JKR's part. Was she trying to cover something? PS: I haven't read the HBP yet so if you know something i don't, please, don't share.
Well, that makes no sense. I realized after the fact that you posted this. I'm sorry. I guess I just fell into the bad habit of assuming that all HP-related posts were by people who'd read book 6.
Well i had written this essay a month ago and just re-posted here. Don't fret it though. I'm not that spoiled. And probably while you were typing your last reply, i finally got my HBP and 3/4 through with it.
thanks for the essay; I've also suspected that Slytherin's message has been distorted by history.
As to the basilisk in the Chamber, I'm pretty sure that it obeys only the Heir of Slytherin (i.e. Slytherin and his heirs); Harry's Parseltonugue abilities are of no use here, because it will only obey commands set to it by its master.
On another note, we don't exactly know how parseltounge works. Is it the ability to talk to snakes or is it the ability to command snakes? And Harry didnot try talking to the basilisk, either. In the movie, Tom tells him parseltounge wouldn't help him with his Basilisk, but i don't trust anything Tom or Voldemort says. This is important because in what ways would a basilisk protect the school other than eating dangerous beasts and scaring away spiders? For instance, if Hogwarts was under attack, how would a basilisk react? You can't depend on a parseltounge with it because they are very rare. But it's also far-fetched to think this is Salazar's master plan to wipe out muggle-borns.
By the way, i've been a fan of your thories for some time and i based some of my essays on IMDb HBP board on your theories. I of course credited you and gave your link along with it. Hope you don't mind. About this essay, i honestly didn't remember about it, i was more focused on your ideas about patronages and Barty Crouch and Lucius Malfoy.
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The basilisk certainly seemed he was taking orders from possesed Ginny and Tom himself. And Nagini is unusually loyal to Voldemort, but Harry doesn't try parseltounge in the grave yard, either, which is a little suspicious on JKR's part. Was she trying to cover something?
PS: I haven't read the HBP yet so if you know something i don't, please, don't share.
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As to the basilisk in the Chamber, I'm pretty sure that it obeys only the Heir of Slytherin (i.e. Slytherin and his heirs); Harry's Parseltonugue abilities are of no use here, because it will only obey commands set to it by its master.
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