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[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] reminds students that exams are starting next week, which apparently catches everyone by surprise. Considering the serious situation, it seemed unlikely that exams would be held. Three days later, Professor McGonagall announces at breakfast that the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Mandrake|Mandrakes]] are ready, and the Petrified victims will be revived that night. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ginny Weasley|Ginny]], who appears somewhat upset, sits herself beside Harry and Ron, apparently with something important to tell them, but [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Percy Weasley|Percy]] arrives after a night's patrolling, and interrupts, causing her to run off. Ron is angry, believing Ginny may have wanted to tell them something about the Chamber of Secrets, but Percy claims it had nothing to do with the Chamber, and deflects further questions.

While the mystery may possibly be solved with [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione's]] revival, Harry still wants to see Moaning Myrtle. An opportunity arises that morning: as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart|Professor Lockhart]] escorts students to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/History of Magic|History of Magic]] class, Harry and Ron suggest there is no need to guard them any longer with Hagrid having been arresedarrested. Lockhart agrees and goes off to take a nap. Harry and Ron head for Myrtle's bathroom, but Professor McGonagall intercepts them. Harry lies, saying they want to visit Hermione in the hospital wing. Touched by their apparent concern, McGonagall grants permission, although this forces them to actually go to the infirmary. While there, they find a torn-out book page clutched in Hermione's petrified hand describing [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Basilisk|Basilisks]]. "Pipes" is handwritten in the margin. A Basilisk kills with its gaze, but Harry realizes that no one died because they were were not looking directly at it. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mrs. Norris|Mrs. Norris]] saw a reflection in the water on the floor. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Colin Creevey|Colin Creevey]] was looking through his camera lens. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Justin Finch-Fletchley|Justin]] saw it through [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nearly Headless Nick|Nearly Headless Nick]], and, of course, Hermione had her mirror. This explains both the fleeing spiders and the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 11|killed roosters]] — spiders fear it, and a rooster's crow is fatal to it. Harry hears the voice because he is a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Parselmouth|Parselmouth]]—the Basilisk is a snake. It travels through the walls and ceilings using the plumbing. It occurs to Ron that, if Myrtle was the Basilisk's last victim fifty years before, the Chamber's entrance may be in Moaning Myrtle's washroom.

Harry and Ron sprint to the staff room to report their findings to Professor McGonagall but find it empty. An announcement rings out ordering all students to their Houses and the faculty to meet in the staff room. Harry and Ron hide so they can overhear what has happened. The staff arrive, and McGonagall reports that Ginny Weasley was taken into the Chamber. Lockhart arrives belatedly, and, after beinghe is briefed, the other teachers challenge him to back his boasts by opening the Chamber and defeating the Monster. He excuses himself to go to his office and "prepare". Having gotten rid of him, the remaining instructors plan how to inform the students and discuss the school's future.

Harry and Ron rush to Lockhart's office to share what they know, but find him hastily packing. He confesses that he never actually performed the feats in his books. Rather, he took credit for other Wizards' accomplishments and used a charm to erase their memories. He threatens Harry and Ron with a memory charm, but Harry [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Expelliarmus|disarms him]], and Ron throws his wand out the window. They force Lockhart to Moaning Myrtle's lavatory. Myrtle says that when she was a student, she went into the washroom to have a bit of a cry. Hearing a boy's voice, she looked outside the cubicle and saw big yellow eyes—then she died. She points to one particular basin. Harry addresses it in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Parseltongue|Parseltongue]], and it opens to reveal a vertical shaft. Ron and Harry push Lockhart down it first, then follow.

Throughout the series, Harry constantly succeeds because he is aided by friends and allies: he is the sum of many parts. With his friends' help, the mystery is nearly solved as the puzzle pieces fall into place. Hermione, through her usual diligent research, gathering information, and patiently working to understand what it all means, has discovered what the monster is and how it navigates throughout the school. It is by sheer luck that she was still clutching the torn-out book page when she was petrified, allowing Ron and Harry to find it. HagidHagrid also provided an important clue (through [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Aragog|Aragog]]), while Moaning Myrtle gave valuable information when Ron and Harry's hunch that she was the victim who died 50 years ago isproves correct. Now we understand her perpetual sadness. It is still unknown who is the Heir of Slytherin is, though the tunnel Harry is about to enter will likely lead him to the answer. Also, as one mystery is nearly solved another arises: Ginny. Unlike the Muggle-borns that were targeted, she is a pure-blood. Why then was she taken into the Chamber? Rather than becoming another petrified victim, she likely plays some other integral part in this evil plot, judging by her recent odd behavior and her earlier urgent attempt to tell Harry and Ron something important. Just what her role is also remains unknown, but it should be assumed that she is someone's innocent pawn. And while Percy's behavior may have seemed suspicious when he prevented Ginny from speaking to Harry and Ron, judging by his distraught behavior after she was taken, it was unlikely related to the monster or the Chamber of Secrets.

As they approach the Chamber, Ron's broken wand finally does something well: when Lockhart grabs it and, unconcerned whether Ginny may still be alive, attempts to erase Harry and Ron's memories, it backfires and Obliviates him, as well as causing a small explosion. This backfire ends Lockhart's plan to claim he found the Chamber and destroyed the monster, at the cost of Ginny's life and Ron and Harry's sanity. With his memory erased, he has received the same as what he inflicted on other Wizards—a fitting punishment. However, the explosion has separated Harry from Ron. Now, Harry must search for Ginny alone, without his friends' help.

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Even this early, the main characters' future romantic entanglements are seen. Ginny, having something important she needs to tell someone, approaches Harry first, rather than her brothers. Of course, earlier in the book, Ginny showed the classic schoolgirl crush on Harry. A person is often too shy or awed by the one she has a crush on to ever approach him. That Ginny can now go to Harry, may indicate that her feelings have matured and deepened, possibly beyond the crush level. Despite several side roads on both Harry's and Ginny's part, this relationship will persist, off and on, throughout the entire series.

We also see the first of several progressively-larger hints the author drops about a budding relationship between Ron and Hermione. While Ron is upset over the Monster's depredations, he is far more affected by Hermione being petrified than anyone else, excepting his sister, Ginny. True to his character, though, Ron will be unable to recognize histhe concernbasis forof whathis it isconcern for several years yet.

It is mentioned that Harry has to speak to the basin twice to get it to open; the first time, Ron tells him that he was speaking English. That Harry is unable to tell whether he is speaking English or Parseltongue should hardly be surprising, as he is unable to differentiate between the two languages when hearing them; no one else can understand the Basilisk, because to them its speech is a low, indistinguishable hissing, while to Harry it sounds like plain speech. This will be a plot point in the series' final book.

As a sidenote, in ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'', Harry again enters an unknown tunnel (to the Shreiking[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Shrieking Shack|Shrieking Shack]]) that seemingly leads him to disaster, but results in another mystery being solved.