Who opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago?

The Chamber was opened during the 1942–1943 school year by a sixteen-year-old teenager by the name of Tom Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort. Through Merope Gaunt, his mother and a Witch, Riddle was the last remaining direct descendant of Slytherin, and he desired to see Muggle-borns driven from Hogwarts.
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Did Hagrid open the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago?

Myth 4: Hagrid opened the Chamber 50 years ago

But it was, as Riddle reveals to Harry through the medium of his diary. When Moaning Myrtle was killed by the creature lurking in the Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid's love of frightening beasts left him open to suspicion.
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Who opened the Chamber of Secrets the second time?

Years later, during the time of the second book, HP and the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny Weasley actually opened the chamber while possessed by the image of Tom Riddle in the diary she found. I suppose you could view it as Tom Riddle opening it again, but through Ginny who he controlled.
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Who died when the Chamber of Secrets was first opened?

Cause of Death: In the 1940s, Myrtle was hiding from a bully in the bathroom when Tom Riddle came in to open the Chamber of Secrets. The basilisk emerged and killed Myrtle, leaving her body alone for hours before it was found. Riddle used her death to make his first Horcrux with a diary.
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Did anyone else open the Chamber of Secrets?

Tom Riddle is the earliest instance that we know for sure that the Chamber was opened. However, according to Pottermore, there is evidence that it was opened previously by members of the Gaunt family.
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Harry Porter entered the book and saw what had happened 50 years ago



Did Tom Riddle open the Chamber of Secrets?

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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Who is Salazar Slytherin heir?

Voldemort was Salazar's heir, and as far as it is explained, he is taking up the mission in the way he believes Salazar had intended, with the Chamber and the Basilisk.
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Who opened The Chamber of Secrets before Tom Riddle?

Professor Binns was cut from the film adaptation, and so Professor McGonagall is the one who reveals the history of the chamber. Ginny Weasley opened the Chamber under Tom Riddle's control; however, she only could open it because of Riddle's ability to speak Parseltongue.
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Who was the heir of Ravenclaw?

The Heir of Ravenclaw was an individual prophesized by the centaur Harmonthrep (Ajrand) to bring honor and glory to the House of Ravenclaw. The Heir of Ravenclaw was in time revealed to be Brian Dumbledore (Ajrand).
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How did Salazar Slytherin get a Basilisk?

Salazar Slytherin's basilisk was born in the chamber, as revealed by Aragog. Slytherin, in his spite of the his fellow founders' acceptance of muggle-borns into the school, left a basilisk deep in the chamber, in hopes that one day his true heir will unleash her to purge all they deem unworthy to study magic.
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Is Ginny the Heir of Slytherin?

The Heir of Slytherin turns out to be Ginny Weasley, who is being controlled via a magical diary that once belonged to Tom Riddle, AKA Voldemort.
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Who is the heir of Gryffindor?

Harry is the magical Heir of Gryffindor (and he's also a descendent of Godric), Neville of Hufflepuff, Hermione of Slytherin and Luna of Ravenclaw. (It was due to Dumbledore's manipulations that Neville and Hermione hadn't been put into the correct House.)
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Did Dumbledore know the Chamber of Secrets would be opened?

Yes. Dumbledore suspected that Voldemort was behind the attacks the first time the Chamber was opened, even if he wasn't able to prove anything. "Only the Transfiguration teacher, Dumbledore, seemed to think that Hagrid was innocent.
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Is Hagrid the Heir of Slytherin?

Everybody took Tom Riddle's word for it that Hagrid was the Heir of Slytherin. Yet everybody seemed to skim over one vital fact - Hagrid wasn't in Slytherin. It has been confirmed by Rowling herself that Hagrid was in Gryffindor.
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Is Ginny Weasley a Parseltongue?

Known Parselmouths

Ginny Weasley was able to speak Parseltongue while she was possessed by Tom Riddle's Diary, which enabled her to open the Chamber of Secrets.
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How did Voldemort know he was the Heir of Slytherin?

“All he had to go upon was the single name 'Marvolo,' which he knew from those who ran the orphanage had been his mother's father's name. Finally, after painstaking research through old books of Wizarding families, he discovered the existence of Slytherin's surviving line.
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Who is the true heir of Hufflepuff?

Andrea Bonfanti as Lazarus Smith, the Heir of Helga Hufflepuff.
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Did the sorting hat belong to Godric Gryffindor?

The Sorting Hat was a sentient magical hat at Hogwarts that determined which of the four school Houses each new student belonged most to. These four Houses were Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. The Sorting Hat originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.
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Did the Gaunts open the Chamber of Secrets?

Magical abilities and skills

He was able to use his ability to speak Parseltongue to cleverly conceal the opening to the Chamber of Secrets, and would have been able to open it himself, though he never did.
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When was the Chamber of Secrets opened the second time?

The Chamber was re-opened in 1992 when the bewitched diary of Tom Riddle manipulated and controlled Ginny Weasley, a first-year student who had got hold of the diary by Lucius Malfoy who slipped it in her cauldron when he was viewing her other spellbooks in Flourish and Blotts and fell under its influence.
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Who opened the Chamber of Secrets in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware." Who opened the Chamber of Secrets? Carla Rodriguez and 222,904 others like this. Initially, when he was at Hogwarts, Voldemort (AKA Tom Riddle) opened the chamber.
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Who is stronger Salazar Slytherin or Godric Gryffindor?

They are both undoubtedly, two of the greatest wizards who ever lived and it would be nigh impossible to predict who'd come out on top, in a duel. There is no scale of comparison between the two's magical prowess, in the books, so the answer is inconclusive. That's all. That's everything.
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What is Rictusempra?

The Tickling Charm (Rictusempra), also known as the Rictusempra Charm, is a spell that causes a victim to buckle with laughter. It also has at least two other side effects on the victim. It is usually used as a diversionary tactic in duels.
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What Slytherin relic did Voldemort turn into a Horcrux?

Later, Smith's family discovered the cup and the locket were both missing, but by then Riddle had already quit his job and disappeared, not to be seen or heard from again for a decade. Riddle murdered a Muggle tramp and used that murder to make the locket into a Horcrux.
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