The Ultimate Challenge in Taoism

In the Taoist view, there's chaos and order. The chaos is always threatening to pop itself up in a way that terrifies you. That's why if you look at a gorgon, you turn to stone. And so when Potter has to undo the curse of the basilisk, he has to go down underneath the structure of the magic castle into the depths. To encounter something that will poison him, which it does. He rescues a virgin; that's St. George in the dragon.