Dumbledore also convinced Armando Dippet, who was the Headmaster at that time, to allow Hagrid to stay at Hogwarts as gamekeeper. However, Transfiguration Professor Albus Dumbledore became suspicious of Riddle and kept a very close watch over him during his remaining years at Hogwarts, thus preventing him from causing any further terror at the school since Riddle feared discovery. Hagrid was expelled, and the attacks stopped. ![]() To avoid that undesirable consequence for Hogwarts, which was the closest thing that he had to a home, Riddle framed Gryffindor third-year Rubeus Hagrid for all the events, and claimed that Hagrid's pet Acromantula, Aragog, was responsible for the attacks. ![]() Those events were nearly the cause for the permanent closing of Hogwarts. A sink in that bathroom concealed the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. All the victims were merely Petrified, except for a student named Myrtle Warren, who was killed in the girls' bathroom on the second floor. Riddle unleashed the Basilisk on the school, with his goal of ridding the school of all of its Muggle-borns. In 1943, the Chamber of Secrets was opened by a Slytherin fifth-year named Tom Riddle, who was able to control the Basilisk through his status as the Heir of Slytherin. Slytherin's Basilisk slithering through the Chamber of Secrets " But I know one thing - last time the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a Mudblood died." - Draco Malfoy regarding the first opening It can be presumed that they opened the Chamber and awakened the creature in different occasions, yet none of them dared unleash the monster, until Riddle. But the whispers that a monster lived in the depths of the castle were prevalent for centuries, this is because those who could hear and speak to it were not always as discreet as they should have been: the Gaunt family could not resist boasting of their knowledge. Slytherin placed the creature into a deep sleep in its chamber until it could be awakened by a descendant. Slytherin, in his spite of his fellow Hogwarts founders' acceptance of Muggle-borns into the school, left a Basilisk deep in the Chamber in the hope that one day, his true heir would unleash her to purge all those he deemed were unworthy to study magic at Hogwarts. Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk was born in the Chamber of Secrets from a Basilisk egg (that is, a chicken egg hatched by a toad) during the founding days of Hogwarts in the 10th or 11th century. K." The thing that lives in the castle is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others." - Aragog about the Basilisk
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