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Get us out of here.

Now!

Come on, Come on, move faster!

Come on, Go!

Get us in the air.

The flying gears jammed!

Come on, Pull! I’m trying!

Follow the spiders. Follow the spiders.

If Hagrid ever gets out of Azkaban, Ill kill him.

I mean, what was the point of sending us in there?

What have we found out? We know one thing.

Hagrid never opened the Chamber of Secrets.

He was innocent.

Wish you were here, Hermione.

We need you.

Now more than ever.

Whats that? Ron…

This is why Hermione was in the library the day she was attacked.

Come on.

Of the many fearsome beasts that roam our land…

…none is more deadly than the basilisk. Capable of living for hundreds of years…

…instant death awaits any who meet this giant serpents eye.

Spiders flee before it. Ron, this is it.

The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk.

That’s why I can hear it speak. Its a snake.

But if it kills by looking people in the eye, why is it no ones dead?

Because no one did look it in the eye.

Not directly, at least.

Colin saw it through his camera.

Justin-Justin must have seen the basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick.

Nick got the full blast of it. But hes a ghost, he couldn’t die again.

And Hermione had the mirror.

I bet you she was using it to look around corners in case it came along.

And Mrs. Norris?

I’m pretty sure she didn’t have a camera or a mirror, Harry.

The water.

There was water on the floor that night. She only saw the basilisks reflection.

Spiders flee before it.

It all fits. Hows the basilisk been getting around?

A dirty, great snake. Someone would have seen it.

Hermiones answered that too. Pipes? Its using the plumbing.

Remember what Aragog said about that girl 50 years ago?

She died in a bathroom? What if she never left?

Moaning Myrtle.

All students are to return to their dormitories at once.

All teachers to the second-floor corridor immediately.

As you can see, the Heir of Slytherin has left another message.

Our worst fear has been realized.

A student has been taken by the monster into the Chamber itself.

The students must be sent home. I’m afraid this is the end of Hogwarts.

So sorry, Dozed off. What have I missed?

A girl has been snatched by the monster, Lockhart. Your moment has come at last.

My moment? Weren’t you saying just last night…

…that you’ve known all along where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is?

That’s settled, Well leave you to deal with the monster, Gilderoy.

Your skills, after all, are legend. Very well.

Ill just be in my office getting…

Getting ready.

Who is it that the monsters taken, Minerva?

Ginny Weasley.

Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever.

Ginny.

Lockhart’s useless, but hes going to try and get into the Chamber.

At least we can tell him what we know.

Professor, we have some information for you.

Are you going somewhere?

Well, yes. Urgent call, Unavoidable. Got to go.

What about my sister? Well…

As to that, most unfortunate. No one regrets more than I.

You’re the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. You cant go now.

I must say, when I took the job, there was nothing in the description–

You’re running away?

After all you did in your books? Books can be misleading.

You wrote them. My dear boy, use your common sense.

My books wouldn’t have sold as well if people didn’t think Id done those things.

You’re a fraud.

You’ve been taking credit for what other wizards have done.

Is there anything you can do?

Yes, now you mention it. I’m rather gifted with Memory Charms.

Otherwise, all those wizards would have gone blabbing.

Id never have sold another book.

In fact, I’m going to have to do the same to you.

Don’t even think about it.

Who’s there?

Hello, Harry.

What do you want? To ask you how you died.

It was dreadful.

It happened right here in this very cubicle.

Id hidden because Olive Hornby was teasing me about my glasses.

I was crying, and then I heard somebody come in.

Who was it, Myrtle? I don’t know. I was distraught!

But they said something funny, a kind of made-up language.

And I realized it was a boy, so I unlocked the door to tell him to go away and…

…I died. Just like that? How?

I just remember seeing a pair of great, big, yellow eyes…

…over there by that sink.