and Hermione and that Ravenclaw prefect were found with a mirror next to them. Justin must've seen the Basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick! Nick got the full blast of it, but he couldn't die again. The Basilisk burned up all the film inside it, but Colin just got Petrified. But no one's died - because no one looked it straight in the eye. " The Basilisk kills people by looking at them. Gilderoy Lockhart once confused the effects of Petrification with those of the Transmogrifian Torture however, the truth of his claims were extremely dubious. The Full Body-Bind Curse was only temporary and could be lifted easily, while the Hardening Charm turned an object to literal stone. Petrification should not be confused with the Full Body-Bind Curse or the Hardening Charm. The antidote to Petrification was the Mandrake Restorative Draught, a highly potent healing potion made from Stewed Mandrakes. A Petrified ghost would turn a dark smoky grey and could only be moved using air currents. It may have taken careful examination to discern if a victim was Petrified. Victims of Petrification were completely paralysed and unresponsive. The second opening in 1992 led to the Petrification of students Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater, along with the cat Mrs Norris and the ghost Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington. The first opening in 1943 resulted in the Petrification of three Muggle-born students, and the death of one, Myrtle Warren. Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format.During the history of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Chamber of Secrets was opened twice, and in both cases the Serpent of Slytherin was released and attacked the Muggle-born student body. (Let's not petrify Jackie Strauss of Philadelphia, a frequent contributor to this series, by forgetting to thank her for today's richly historical Good Word.) This is also why the Roman Catholic Pope claims to be the sole successor to Saint Peter. Jesus' disciple bore this Greek name, which is why Jesus claimed that Peter would be the rock upon which His church would be built. Greek also had a masculine noun, pétros "rock, stone", which served as a man's name, Peter. Latin apparently borrowed petra from Greek pétra. Facere goes back to PIE root dhe-/dho "to set, put", an origin it shares with English do and German tun. Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from Middle French pétrifier "to make or become stone", a verb based on the Latin noun petra "rock, crag" + -ficare, the combining form of facere "to make, do". In Play: The basic meaning of today's word is "to turn into stone": "The Petrified Forest National Park features entire tree trunks that have been petrified over the ages." However, it is metaphorically used to indicate extreme fear: "The first time I went through a car wash inside the car, I was petrified." Petrescent "becoming stone" is a first cousin. Anything that may be petrified is petrifiable. Rarer adjectives are petrifactive "causing petrifaction". We may also use the participles as adjectives: petrifying and petrified. The action noun is petrification and the personal noun is petrifier. Notes: Today's verb comes with a large extended family. (Transitive) Change into stone or make hard, or (intransitive) to become stone or hard.
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