It was still a couple of weeks away from Halloween and with it, Adalricus’ plans to open up the Chamber of Secrets to purge the school of the unworthy and to strike at Potter. He’d been diligently laboring away to get the basilisk hatchlings’ killer gaze improved upon and concluded that there really wasn’t anything more he could do short of using an engorgement charm. "Unfortunately, increasing the size of the snake doesn’t really do anything for its lethality.’