On Hallowe'en night, 1992, Tom Riddle's Diary (one of Voldemort's Horcruxes), possessed student Ginny Weasley and forced her to open the Chamber of Secrets (which had been closed since 1943). Hermione Granger brewing Polyjuice Potion in this bathroom Come on, let's have a look." - The Trio enters Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom for the first time That's a girls' toilet." Hermione Granger: " Oh, Ron, there won't be anyone in there. Harry Potter: " What's the matter?" Ron Weasley: " Can't go in there. When the Ministry of Magic refrained her from doing so, Moaning Myrtle returned to the bathroom, haunting it from that day on. Myrtle's ghost Īfter her death, Myrtle Warren's ghost (or Moaning Myrtle, as the students usually call her) haunted Olive Hornby, the fellow student who forced her into the bathroom that evening. The attacks eventually stopped with the murder of a student named Myrtle Warren inside this bathroom. In his fifth year, he learned of his Slytherin ancestry and discovered the existence and entrance to the Chamber of Secrets and tamed the Basilisk which dwelt within.Īs the Heir of Slytherin through his mother's family, Tom was able to open the Chamber of Secrets and started purging the school " of all those who were unworthy to study magic" - in Riddle and Slytherin's eyes, those were Muggle-born students. In 1938, Tom Riddle (best known by the alias "Lord Voldemort") started his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For centuries, the Castle was thoroughly searched and no such Chamber was found until one of Slytherin's descendants set foot in the Castle in the late 1930s. Several centuries later in the 1700s, a direct of descendant of Slytherin, Corvinus Gaunt, further concealed the passageway behind a bewitched sink that could be only opened by someone who spoke Parseltongue. Before being forced out of Hogwarts by the other founders, Slytherin hid the entrance to the Chamber. The Chamber contained a Basilisk which could only be controlled by Slytherin's true heir, who wuld use it to purge the school of all Muggle-born students. According to an ancient legend, Salazar Slytherin was responsible for the construction of the Chamber of Secrets beneath Hogwarts dungeons. Hogwarts Castle and this bathroom were built by Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin. 1.4 1992-1993 Chamber of Secrets openings.To get in the Chamber, a person needed to say " open" in Parseltongue, which would cause the tap with a snake on the side (a tap which incidentally, never worked) to move into the floor, revealing a tunnel which led downwards into the Chamber.
This bathroom held the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. Myrtle had haunted the bathroom ever since the Ministry of Magic stopped her from haunting Olive Hornby who had been teasing Myrtle just before her death, leading it to be a place most students did not want to enter. It had been out of order ever since a student named Myrtle Warren was killed there. The second-floor girls' lavatory, more commonly known as Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom, was situated on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle, just above the Great Hall. The floor was damp and reflected the dull light given off by the stubs of a few candles, burning low in their holders the wooden doors to the stalls were flaking and scratched and one of them was dangling off its hinges." - The inside of Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom Under a large, cracked, and spotted mirror were a row of chipped sinks. " It was the gloomiest, most depressing bathroom Harry had ever set foot in.
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