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== Analysis ==
The monster in the Chamber of Secrets in [[../../Books/Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]] is a basilisk. The process of discovering this is a slow one, both for the reader and for the Trio. The first clue, which happens barely a week in to the term, is the disembodied voice that [[../../Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] alone can hear when he is doing his detention with [[../../Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart|Professor Lockhart]]. In retrospect, it becomes obvious that Harry can understand it because he is a [[../Parselmouth/]] and can understand snake language; to Lockhart, and to anyone else in the vicinity, what Harry hears as a voice is only a low hissing and sizzling sort of noise. On October 31st, as the Trio leave [[../../Characters/Nearly Headless Nick|Nearly Headless Nick]]'s Deathday party, the voice seems to be proceeding upwards between floors without benefit of stairs or anything else; while we have been misled so far into believing that this voice may be coming from something without a physical body, in retrospect again it becomes obvious that the creature is travelling through the pipes. The Petrification of Mrs. Norris is another clue, and the dead roosters that [[../../Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] is waving about at the time [[../../Characters/Justin Finch-Fletchley|Justin Finch-Fletchley]] and Nearly Headless Nick are petrified, is of course a final clue. While much is made in the story of the fact that spiders fear Basilisks, to the point that [[../../Characters/Aragog|Aragog]] will not speak its name, this may be an addition to the Basilisk legend by the author; as such, it is a clue for the Trio, specifically for [[../../Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]], but not necessarily for the reader.
A basilisk would be a dangerous servant, as even its master cannot look into its eyes. As such, it is unlikely that they will play much further part in the story; while it's certainly true that [[../../Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort]] can control them, even under that control they would prove as dangerous to his allies as to his enemies. Luckily they are also very rare. The one basilisk that we do see, in the Chamber, has lived for a thousand years, and has apparently gotten very large. One wonders what it would have eaten in the interim, locked in the Chamber as it must have been; granted, it could open the inner door, which would respond to a simple command in Parseltongue, but one has to wonder how the small animals that it apparently ate, based on the skeletons that Harry found himself walking on, got past the outer door of the Chamber.
== Questions ==
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