"Before I speak the official oath, let me say some other things. My second year, 1992-1993, a basilisk was running around Hogwarts—an actual look-straight-at-it-and-you-die-instantly basilisk. The basilisk petrified students, a ghost, and the caretaker’s cat, but luckily nobody was killed. In May of 1993, I killed the basilisk, and almost was killed myself. Madam Bones and Rita Skeeter, you two should ask why this is the first you’ve heard about the basilisk."