Magical Theory, a Harry Potter podcast

Turn to Page 283, The Chamber of Secrets. Today’s lesson is called Things Forgotten. The chapter begins with Harry and Ron plotting how to evade the teachers’ vigilance and get to Moaning Myrtle. As they do, they learn that there will still be final exams, find Ginny to be nervous with a secret, and Lockhart frazzled. Eventually they persuade Gilderoy to let them go in the halls alone, but McGonagall spots them and they instead claim they were going to see a petrified Hermione. During that visit, Harry finds a crumpled paper in her hand, and upon reading it, discovers what Hermione had gone to read about before she was attacked. The creature in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk that has been using pipes to travel and parseltongue to speak. This lends even more credence to the idea that Myrtle was the girl who died, given that it was in the bathroom. They plan to tell Mcgonagall what they have found, but are disrupted by an emergency meeting of the staff, in which McG shares that Ginny Weasley has been take