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Did Harry use magic in any (or at least significant) way in the Chamber of Secrets?


Would Harry have won (achieved the same exact outcome) in the Chamber of Secrets if he somehow would have been turned into a Squib for the duration?


I'm trying to remember the whole end of CoS, I am failing to remember a single spell or magical thing Harry did during the entire set of events once he had entered the Chamber.


Did Harry use magic in any (or at least significant) way in the Chamber of Secrets? (to be more specific, after the rock fall caused by misfired Memory charm, and until Fawkes flew the whole group up to the castle).



Answer



Synopsis: Nope; other than speaking the language of snakes, he did no magic. And speaking the snake's tongue may not even count.




He did use Parseltongue to open the door, but I'm not sure if that counts as using magic.

Harry approached, his throat very dry. There was no need to pretend these stone snakes were real; their eyes looked strangely alive. He could guess what he had to do. He cleared his throat, and the emerald eyes seemed to flicker.



“Open,” said Harry, in a low, faint hiss.


The serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight, and Harry, shaking from head to foot, walked inside.



After that, he never had a chance to cast spells; the incarnation of Tom Riddle picked up Harry's wand right after he came thru the door, as Harry knelt to look at Ginny. Tom had the wand for the entire fight, only relinquishing it when he was vanquished.



Riddle didn’t move. Harry, sweating, managed to hoist Ginny half off the floor, and bent to pick up his wand again.


But his wand had gone.


“Did you see — ?”


He looked up. Riddle was still watching him — twirling Harry’s wand between his long fingers.




Then, after the battle...



There was a long, dreadful, piercing scream. Ink spurted out of the diary in torrents, streaming over Harry’s hands, flooding the floor. Riddle was writhing and twisting, screaming and flailing and then —


He had gone. Harry’s wand fell to the floor with a clatter and there was silence. Silence except for the steady drip drip of ink still oozing from the diary. The basilisk venom had burned a sizzling hole right through it.



So, yeah.. He could have done the whole thing as a squib, as long as he could speak 'Open' in parseltongue... Which we saw later could be done by a non-parseltongue, as Ron did exactly that in Hallows; he just had to have heard it before to know what sounds to make.


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