![]() ![]() He finds Ginny and Tom Riddle, who tells Harry that Ginny (under his influence) was responsible for all the terrible things that have happened, and then reveals himself to be Voldemort. ![]() ![]() After learning that the Basilisk had taken Ginny into the Chamber of Secrets, Harry and Ron attempt to save her, with the help of a reluctant Gilderoy Lockhart, who attempts to perform a memory charm on them, but accidentally erases his own memory when it backfires, and causes a cave-in. ![]() Harry and Ron find the page when they visit Hermione again in the hospital wing. Norris, Colin Creevey (a camera-wielding first year), Justin Finch-Fletchey, and Hermione Granger (who just discovered the Basilisk was the evil creature living in the Chamber thanks to a library book page on her, which she held on to). Among the Basilisk's victims this time are Mrs. Under Riddle's influence, Ginny reopens the Chamber of Secrets and unleashes the Basilisk again.įortunately, no one is killed, just petrified. When Harry Potter starts his second year at Hogwarts, despite warnings from Dobby the house elf, Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's father, slips Tom Riddle's diary into Ginny Weasley's belongings, resulting in Ginny being corrupted by Riddle's spirit. In fact, the Basilisk's gaze is even fatal to the Basilisk herself if a person were to hold up a mirror in front of the Basilisk and she stares at it, then she would go down as quick as a finger snap.Īppearances Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Of course, her huge yellow eyes are what makes her extremely dangerous anyone who looks directly into them will die instantly. Her venom is potent enough to kill a person in just a little more than a minute. The Basilisk is a gigantic serpent with greenish-grey scaly skin, flat spikes on the back of the head and along her body (if she were a male, there would be a scarlet plume on her head), sharp fangs that contain potent venom, and yellow eyes that can instantly kill people who look directly into them until Fawkes blinded the Basilisk.īeing a magical creature, the Basilisk is considerably powerful and dangerous. Knowing it was risky to open the Chamber again while still at school, Riddle left a diary containing his 16-year-old self in its pages behind so he could finish what he started in the future. Albus Dumbledore then kept a close eye on him afterwards. To ensure Hogwarts wouldn't shut down, Tom framed Rubeus Hagrid for the murder. As a result, he left the school before leaving, he constructed the Chamber of Secrets and hid a female Basilisk that could only be controlled by his Heir inside the Chamber to eradicate all muggle-born students from Hogwarts.ĭuring his time at Hogwarts, Tom Riddle discovered he was a descendant of Slytherin, and found the Chamber of Secrets, unleashing the Basilisk, killing one student, a girl named Myrtle Warren, who was hiding in the second floor girls' bathroom, which had a secret entrance to the Chamber of Secrets under the sink. When Hogwarts was founded 1000 years ago by Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin, the four eventually disagreed Slytherin believed only all-magic families should be allowed to learn about magic.
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