How did Hermione become petrified?

Hermione Granger — saw the Basilisk through Penelope Clearwater's mirror. Penelope Clearwater — saw the Basilisk through her mirror; it is possible that Penelope is half-blooded and was only subject to an attack because she was there when the Basilisk petrified Hermione, a Muggle-born.
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Did Hermione get petrified in Chamber of Secrets?

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(film) professor McGonagall informs Ron and Harry that her body was found near the library and all they have found is a hand mirror.
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How did some Hogwarts students become petrified?

Petrification was the process of being turned into stone. It was caused by the gaze of a Basilisk if you look in it's eyes through a reflection. Looking straight into it's eyes caused instant death instead. During the 1992-1993 school year, the Serpent of Slytherin had Petrified several people at Hogwarts School.
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What was Hermione holding in her hand when she was found petrified?

Not wanting to get caught in their lie, the boys trudge to the infirmary and find, clasped in Hermione's hand, a piece of paper that, once wrenched out, displays a paragraph of information about the basilisk that fits right in with all of the eerie things that have happened: it lives for hundreds of years, speaks in ...
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Who Petrified Mrs Norris?

Mrs. Norris was the first victim of the Serpent of Slytherin when the Chamber of Secrets was re-opened in 1992. On Halloween night she was petrified by the basilisk when she saw its reflection in a puddle of water in front of the unused bathroom, in the second floor.
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Hermione's Petrified! -Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets



What book did Draco rip page out of?

The paper that Draco Malfoy ripped out in Chamber of Secrets | Fandom.
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Why was Headless Nick petrified?

On December 18, 1992, Nick was Petrified by the gaze of a basilisk, the creature from the Chamber of Secrets. He remained Petrified, which for a ghost means that he was the color of smoke and completely immobilized, for several months until May 30, 1993.
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How was Justin petrified?

Both of them saw the Basilisk there; Justin looked into the monster's eyes through Nick's transparent form which protected him from death. Unfortunately, it couldn't shield him fully and both Justin and the ghost were Petrified. Meanwhile, Harry wanted to explain to Justin what had really happened the night before.
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Can you petrify a human?

Scientists attempted to artificially petrify organisms as early as the 18th century, when Girolamo Segato claimed to have supposedly "petrified" human remains. His methods were lost, but the bulk of his "pieces" are on display at the Museum of the Department of Anatomy in Florence, Italy.
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Who all got petrified by the Basilisk?

“The basilisk kills people by looking at them. But no one's died — because no one looked it straight in the eye. Colin saw it through his camera. The basilisk burned up all the film inside it, but Colin just got Petrified.
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Did Hermione rip a page out of a book?

Even though Draco's ripping the page didn't happen in the book, and Hermione did seem to make the connection to the basilisk herself, the theory still resonates as Draco's action seems like a deliberate addition to the movie.
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What caused Dr Stone?

The Petrification Event

On June 3rd 2019, all of the humans on Earth were mysteriously turned into stone statues after a greenish light swept across the land. Once the light had touched someone, their skin started to become stone-like and they'd be unable to move.
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Who got petrified in the Chamber of Secrets?

She takes Ron Weasley and Harry Potter to the Hospital Wing where they find that Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater are the latest victims to be petrified. Percy Weasley is stunned that one of the Hogwarts Prefects could be have been attacked (CS14).
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How did Hermione know about the Basilisk?

Hermione Granger was Petrified, while gathering information on the Basilisk. She discovered she was the monster in the Chamber of Secrets and that the serpent travelled through the pipes in the school. Hermione was Petrified after seeing the Basilisks' eyes in a hand mirror.
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How did Penelope Clearwater get petrified?

Mirror: Penelope owned an ornate hand mirror, which was useful for looking around corners. When she encountered the Serpent of Slytherin in 1993, the Basilisk's deadly gaze was reflected by the mirror's glass and only resulted in her and Hermione Granger being petrified, saving both their lives.
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What happened to Susan in Harry Potter?

Susan Bones was a half-blood witch and Hufflepuff student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Most members of her family, including her grandparents, her uncle Edgar, his wife and their children, were killed by Lord Voldemort during the First Wizarding War.
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Is filch a Muggle?

Argus Filch is a Squib, a child of wizard parents who has the inability to use magic.
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How is Basilisk petrified?

A basilisk, whose indirect gaze causes petrification. Petrification is the process of being turned to stone. The only proven causes of petrification are the gaze of the Gorgon and the Basilisk, the latter only when reflected in or seen through another object. However, there may be a Dark spell that does the same.
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How was Tom Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets?

First stage. In 1943, while Tom Riddle was at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Slytherin House and explored the school, he found out he came from the direct line of Salazar Slytherin himself, and he opened the Chamber of Secrets and awakened the Basilisk inside.
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How old is Nearly Headless Nick?

Nearly Headless Nick

He was originally born in the 15th century to a family of nobles, which he left at the age of 11 to attend Hogwarts.
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Why was Hermione still a cat?

Hermione partially transformed into the cat after accidentally adding the cat's hair to her Polyjuice Potion Hermione Granger plucked a small hair of the cat from Millicent Bulstrode's robes, thinking it was hers.
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What book did Lucius put in Ginny's cauldron?

In The Chamber of Secrets, Lucius slips Tom Riddle's diary into Ginny's cauldron in Diagon Alley.
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What did Draco become after Hogwarts?

Draco eventually married Astoria Greengrass, the younger sister of fellow Slytherin classmate Daphne Greengrass, who had gone through a similar (though less violent and frightening) conversion from pure-blood ideals to a more accepting and tolerant way of life.
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What did Malfoy put in his pocket?

The diary was not in the chest then, but in Malfoy's pocket. So Malfoy left the shop carrying two dark items to give to two different people, one he would eventually give to Ginny and that other one from the chest to... someone else (not seen in the book or movie).
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