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Facts about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Tom Riddle's diary serves as a Horcrux, the first one Harry encounters in the series.
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J.K. Rowling's second Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in the UK in 1998, one year after the first book.
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Nearly a thousand students were petrified by the basilisk during the 1992-1993 school year before Harry Potter killed the creature in the Chamber of Secrets.
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Salazar Slytherin created the Chamber of Secrets over a thousand years before Harry Potter's time at Hogwarts to house the basilisk.
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The basilisk in Chamber of Secrets is described as a serpent that can kill with a direct stare and petrify with an indirect glance, reaching lengths of up to twenty feet.