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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, it is announced that the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Mandrake|Mandrakes]] are ready to be harvested, and the Petrified victims will be revived that night. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ginny Weasley|Ginny]], who appears somewhat upset, apparently has something important to tell Harry and Ron, 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 withas Hagrid havinghas been arrested. Lockhart agrees and goes off to take a nap. Harry and Ron head for Myrtle's bathroom, but Professor McGonagall intercepts them. Harry lies, sayingsays they want to visit Hermione in the hospital wing. Touched by their apparent concern, McGonagall grants permission, though thiswhich 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 itthe basilisk, and a rooster's crow is fatal to it, so presumably whoever has been controlling it has also been killing the roosters. 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 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 summoning 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 he 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.

InsideAt athe tunnelbottom of the shaft, they discover a giant snake skin on the ground. Lockhart pretends to faint, and as Ron approaches, he grabs Ron's wand. Lockhart says he will tell everyone that he defeated the monster, using the snake's skin as proof, and that Harry and Ron were tragically rendered insane upon seeing Ginny's dead body. He casts a memory charm, but Ron's broken wand backfires and explodes, erasing Lockhart's memory and causing the ceiling to collapse. Harry and Ron are unhurt, but the fallen rubble separates them. Harry leaves Ron to clear the rock fall while he explores the tunnel further ahead. Finding a door engraved with shimmering serpents, he opens it by speaking Parseltongue.

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. Ron's steadfast loyalty and Wizarding knowledge have aided Harry throughout. Hagrid 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 proves correct. Now we understand her perpetual sadness. It is still unknown who 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 apparent Muggle-borns that were targeted, she is a pure-blood. Why then was she taken into the Chamber? Is Neville correct that certain pure-bloods are being targeted? Rather than becoming another petrified victim, however, she likely plays some other integral part in this evil plot, judging by her recent odd behavior and her earlier urgent attempt to reveal something important to Harry and Ron. Just what her role is also remains unknown, but it should be assumed that she is someone's innocent pawn, and likely someone other than Voldemort. It may be that this person would only use a pure-blood to execute his plan, though Ginny may be considered "disposable" once she is no longer useful. AndWe whileshould note that Percy's behavior may have seemed suspicious when he prevented Ginny from speaking to Harry and Ron, judgingbut byfrom his distraughtcomments behaviorafterwards afterwe shecan was taken,guess it was unlikelyprobably relatedunrelated to the monster or the Chamber of Secrets.

Lockhart is finally unmasked as the fraud hewe have always believed him to isbe, and the bogus claims in his books are actuallynow confirmed to be other wizards' accomplishments. After stealing their stories, he claims to have [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Obliviate|altered their memories]]. Magically he isseems quite weak, except for Memory charms, and Harry easily disarms him, as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Professor Snape]] had in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 11|the Dueling Club]]. Lockhart is likely somewhat transparent to other wizards; he is certainly not held in particular esteem by any Hogwarts instructor, so it is entirely possible that those whose stories he stole may have deliberately given him misinformation. This could explain his confidence in the ineffectual [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Peskipiksi Pesternomi|Pixie-banishing charm]] he used in the first [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Defence Against the Dark Arts|Defence Against the Dark Arts]] class. Of course, he likely never attempted it before, merely borrowing it from a more accomplished wizard.

With this revelation, it is worthwhile re-examining the technique the Weasley children used for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Gnome|de-gnoming]] the garden [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 3|earlier]]. While we are never explicitly told that this technique came from Lockhart's book, the reference to ''Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests'' hints at that being the source. That the technique is, ultimately, ineffectual, is the same pattern that we have seen in Lockhart's activities to date, and so would suggest Lockhart was the originator. SomeoneIt mayis unlikely that Lockhart would have givenbeen himable to publish a bogusbook spell,on household pests butunder his magicalown abilityname beingunless sohe was already famous for his weakwritings, heso wouldwe becan unablesafely toassume effectivelythat testseveral whetherof ithis wasearlier realworks orwere notalready doing well in the magical bookstores. More competent magicians would have realized by that time, andfrom hereading apparentlyhis assumesbooks, orthat athis stories leastwere hopesquestionable, anyand suchso spellwhen willLockhart, actuallydoing workhis in"research", consulted a competenttrained pest-removal wizard's handsfor information on removal of household pests, likely he would have been deliberately given misinformation. It is perhaps a shame that the wizards who provided the information would then have their memory modified, as it would prevent them from properly appreciating the joke they had played on Lockhart.

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. We have seen this particular misbehaviour before, when Ron [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 7|tried to jinx]] [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Draco]] and ended up jinxing himself. 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 friend's help.

# Why was Ginny, a "pure-blood", abducted when most of the other victims were Muggle-born?

The backfired memory charm's effects on Lockhart will be long-term, and Lockhart has yet to recover when we meet him again, some three years later. This is to be expected, in a way; Lockhart intended for the charm he cast at Ron to be everlasting, so when it backfired, it is to be expected that it would permanently affect him.