So my lovely ppl...another riddle cracked, and another explanation on the way
so here is...
the explanation to Aru's riddle no. 3 (Dussehra special)
cracked by-Sam
A little different from the ones of my race -the basilisks are usually small, not like the basilisk down in the chamber of secrets...it was humongous...its different in from the others like it in those terms...
I breed in a secluded, hidden place... -the Basilisk we are referring to bred for years and years in the Chamber of Secrets...secluded from the rest of the castle, in its unseen depths, its entrance hidden by the basin in the girls bathroom on the second floor...thats where it remained for 50 years after Tom Marvolo Riddle and for centuries after Salazar Slytherin
Deeds by me take time to be undone -by indirectly looking in the eyes of innocent, the basilisk can petrify them, and after petrification, it takes a long time and a long wait to un-petrify those harmed...first the mandrakes need to be matured enough to be used in a potion...and then, the potion takes some amount of time to brew and mature...only after this wait..this long wait that consumes a lot of time, can the harmed be unpetrified and returned to normal...in short, it takes more than months to reverse and normalize the deed of petrification that the Basilisk does...
I swear allegiance to not all but one... -being a snake, a basilisk must hear anything in parseltongue and obey it too, or only obey it if it feels like, 'cause it is not enslaved, it is free to follow whosoever and whatsoever, despite of the fact that it can hear anyone(speaking parseltongue)...the Basilisk in the chamber, despite of being a snake, it heard parselmouths, but it only listened to Voldemort, nobody else...it also obeyed the great Salazar Slytherin, but that was when he was alive...after his death, there was the one and only Tom Marvolo Riddle that he listened to and obeyed...
The weapons I possess are the most deadly and unexpected -As a snake, it is definitely gifted with the most poisonous and quickly penetrating and spreading venom, making it even more dangerous and fatal, but along with that, it has such a big scaly body which could knock out anyone with a hit...when Harry first saw the basilisk (or you can say when he first saw his shadow in the chamber), he had never expected it to be thhhiisss huuuggee...and the amount of whacking the basilisk did with his great tail, it made Harry jump from this place to that, loose his balance, trip face-down on the floor...not to forget the most unexpected weapon it possessed, its stare...if Harry and Ron hadn't read the page of info that Hermione had hunted, Harry might have just looked at the basilisk right in his eyes in the chamber and be dead there and then, it was definitely unexpected...and, this weapon in the possession of the basilisk, Harry had to fight it somehow without looking at it(ofcourse, until Fawkes came and gave him help in Hogwarts when he asked for it)...fighting such monstrous creatures without looking at it is nothing short of 'deadly' ...
My way of movement haunted just one but effect the many expected... -the basilisk used the plumbing of hogwarts to move around the school and hunt the muggle-borns...and as it slithered in the pipes behind the stone walls of the corridors and classrooms, it kept speaking to itself...speaking to itself in its natural language...in parseltongue...and Harry, obtaining the gift of speaking and interpreting parseltongue correctly from Voldemort, could hear the snake's mutterings, and was the only one to hear the mutterings 'cause he was the only one with the gift in Hogwarts...but being unaware of this trait, he was haunted beyond measure as to what could he and only he could hear...the voice that was moving behind the walls...thinking of ripping and killing and quenching its thirst for blood...Harry also being a caring person who would not want anybody harmed, never because of him...he was haunted more at the fact that the mysterious voice wanted to kill someone..and when people started turning up petrified, he really did not know what to do to save them...and this moving of the basilisk resulted in the petrification of many muggle-borns...and this was readily expected..given the legend which told about Salazar Slytherin's wish of not admitting muggle-born magical children to the legendary school...so it was expected that the muggle-borns will be the first targets...
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and now...for the proceeding lines which I never got a chance to post...(i have to admit that ppl have brains here :P)
My first master left me behind to fulfill his wishes -the first master of the huge basilisk was the great Salazar Slytherin, and he left the basilisk behind to get rid of the muggle-borns in Hogwarts...that was his deep wish, his desire, thats what he wanted happening, before he left the school...he wanted the snake to do this in his place
Under the commands and plans of his true blood, shall I do justice to those wishes... -as the legend has it, it would only be the true heir, Salazar Slytherin's true blood, that would command the snake to carefully launch attacks and spread terror...under the plans of Tom Marvolo Riddle the diary went to Ginny from the hands of Voldemort's follower Lucius Malfoy...and then the fiddling with souls happened...and the basilisk was unknowingly released by Ginny on the muggle-borns...it was all a plot of Tom Marvolo Riddle, the true heir of Salazar Slytherin, a plot to rid the school of muggle-borns, just like Salazar Slytherin desired
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okay...this was my third riddle...but this was also a Dussehra special riddle...
Dussehra is symbolic of the fact that good always wins over the evil. It is the day when the evil mind was killed by purity. Ravana, the king of Lanka, the city of gold, he was a very learned man with a strong belief in God. He was very intelligent, and had a lot of power too. Strengthened by his own will power, position and boons of his devoted bhakti, he was a devotee of Lord Shiva. But, just one lacking characteristic in his personality, one bad thought of lust for pretty woman and the greed to have her, it polluted his whole character. It generated a whole series of bad thoughts and thinking. The God always gives a chance to make up for your bad deeds, but Ravana declined all those opportunities, and in the end, his bad deeds outweighed the good ones. And be it early or late, kintu bure ka ant nishchit hai. Same way, the polluted evil Ravana had to suffer death by the hands of Lord Rama. Had he ever thought of repenting for his bad deeds, or putting his knowledge to use and not letting such thoughts pollute his character, he would have been a much better person and a much better ruler...
This riddle, about the basilisk, tells about one such monster, one such evil move in the magical world. Tom Marvolo Riddle, although a brilliant student, let his talents and thinking wander to the dark side. Instead of using his gifts for the betterment and development of the mankind and wizard-kind, he started dreaming of possession and greatness and immortality and his hunger for power dominated all the shine his talents could give him. Like Ravana, he started thinking of himself in a superior way as the rightful owner of the world with the power he had gained. And this attitude and his moves under it made him so evil that it became impossible for him to be fully human again. In his quest for his desire of a pure blood society which he could rule, he released the basilisk in the school and an innocent muggle-born, Myrtle, was killed. And he tried it again through Ginny. But, the good always wins over evil. And, however powerful and deadly the basilisk may be, Harry, being a mere 12 year old kid with not even his wand for defense was able to defeat and even kill the evil basilisk, and in the end, Voldemort himself, despite of all his measures for immortality, and his un-nobility to use the darkest of powers. This was because, the good had to win and the one who is supporting the good side, however helpless he may be, he will be sent help.
Same way, there are a lot of evils in our society,evil thoughts and thinking that make people evil. If we show some boldness by standing up against them, like Lord Rama, like Harry, even after all the hardships, we will definitely succeed. We need to keep trying and never give up. Being true Hogwartians and some of us Gryffindors too, and most of all, being true citizens of our country and our world, we definitely need to raise our voice against the evils that our society is full of. Everyday we get to hear reports about crimes in different parts of our country and dirty tricks being played in different parts of the world.And, not only crimes, there are helpless people who do not have the knowledge to avoid these crimes, there is not only crime, but illiteracy too. If we can start gathering people for a united cause of betterment of the society and banishment of the bad from root, we'll definitely be a true asset to our country and make our society proud.
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Anjali... ;)
Edited by Aru_A - 10 years ago
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