What became of the Chamber of Secrets?

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 115571


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:
> 
> Have just posted on another thread the not original idea of the 
CoS 
> possibly figuring later on as a weapon for LV to fight Harry.
> 
> Please someone alert me and other elative newbies to any posts 
there 
> may have been in HPfGU (or other sources) about what was done with 
> the chamber after the end of CoS.
> 
> Was it sealed forever? Destroyed? or what? Is it still there? Does 
> it still have secret(s) (I do recall this question asked in the 
last 
> three months)?
> 
> A great place for DD to disappear to in OoP since noone, but noone 
> knows where it is apart from Harry, Ron and, arguably, Myrtle.

Doddiemoe here:

And since reading your post some days ago I haven't been able to get 
the question out of my head!

I'm guessing that Harry closed the chamber sometime after he left it 
or the chamber resealed itself after the "heir" had left it.  It is 
afteral the chamber of secretS.  And we never really found out any 
secrets, nor do we find out how and why Tom Riddle opened the 
chamber and what if any secrets he discovered beyond the basilisk.  
Those snake statues and statue of Sal. Slytheryn were not down in 
the chamber to keep the basilisk company all those years!  I think 
the basilisk was left there to protect something, but what? 

Doddiemoe