meh . I ' ve been thinking I ' ll take Don Mills instead of the DVP if it saves me $ 4 a day . I end up sitting on the DVP for so long that I don ' t think it will make much of a time difference in my drive time . That ' s like $ 1 , 000 year <| sep |> I think you are giving a little bit too much credit for magic in this case . It isn ' t that they wouldn ' t in theory obey him in a vacuum , perhaps they would , but when their masters are present or have given direct orders ? Not a chance . The Basilisk knew Tom Riddle very well from the 40 s , so it knew him to be his master from his entire essence , not just a small fragment that frankly wouldn ' t resemble the younger Riddle too much from a composition point of view . Magic is strong , true , but the simple fact is that they know their master .