![]() They force Gilderoy Lockhart, a fraud who wipes clean other wizards' memories and claims their achievements, to go with them. With the help of Ron and Moaning Myrtle (Shirley Henderson), Harry discovers the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. Most horribly, a message written on a wall declares that Ginny Weasley has been taken into the Chamber, where "her skeleton will lie forever". The attacks increase throughout the year, petrifying more students, including Hermione. She is released from the hospital wing in early February, her normal appearance restored. Unfortunately, the hair that Hermione took from Millicent Bullstrode's uniform was from a cat, and as the polyjuice potion is only intended for human transformations she assumes a feline appearance it takes a little more than a month to restore her normal human form. Malfoy, they learn, does not know who the Heir of Slytherin is, but he inadvertently provides Harry and Ron with an important clue about the Chamber of Secrets. Using Polyjuice Potion brewed by Hermione, they disguise themselves as Slytherin students, Crabbe (Jamie Waylett) and Goyle (Josh Herman), hoping to learn from Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) the identity of the Heir. Harry, Ron, and Hermione attempt to discover the Heir of Slytherin's true identity. Many suspect Harry is the Heir of Slytherin, especially after he inadvertently speaks Parseltongue (the language of snakes), a rare ability Harry gained after Voldemort's murderous attack upon him when he was an infant. According to legend, the Chamber was built by Salazar Slytherin and can only be opened by his heir, in order to purge Hogwarts of students who are not pure-blood wizards. Events take a turn for the worse when the Chamber of Secrets is opened and a monster stalks the castle, with the power literally to petrify several students. Harry soon finds he is the unwanted centre of attention of three people: the vain new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh), admirer Colin Creevey (Hugh Mitchell), and Ron's sister, Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright), who fancies Harry. The semi-sentient car ejects them and their belongings and disappears into the Forbidden Forest. In desperation, they fly to Hogwarts in the car, crashing into the Whomping Willow and damaging Ron's wand. To their shock, Harry and Ron are unable to enter the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. ![]() ![]() After a pleasant summer together in the Weasley house, everyone heads to Platform 9¾ to take the Hogwarts Express back to school. A few days later, Fred, George (James and Oliver Phelps) and Ron Weasley come to his rescue in their father's enchanted Ford Anglia. On learning that Harry cannot perform magic outside school, the Dursleys, previously fearful of his wizarding, lock Harrys books and wand away and Vernon Dursley fits bars onto his bedroom window, making Harry a prisoner. Harry is blamed by the Ministry of Magic for Dobby's charm, and is told that if he does magic outside school again, he will be expelled. Seeing that he will have to use force, Dobby decides to destroy, by the use of a charm, a large cake that Aunt Petunia (Fiona Shaw) has baked for an important dinner party attended by Vernon Dursley's (Richard Griffiths) boss and his wife. It turns out that Dobby has been collecting Harry's letters to make it seem as though his friends had forgotten him, hoping Harry might then not want to return to Hogwarts. ![]() Harry ignores Dobby's warning and is determined to return. On his twelfth birthday (July 31) Harry is visited by Dobby, a house-elf, who warns Harry that he will be in mortal danger if he returns to Hogwarts. Hagrid is incredibly kind and loyal both to Harry and to Dumbledore.While home with the Dursleys for the summer, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is not getting any mail from his friends, Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson). In the end, when it is discovered that Riddle actually framed Hagrid for this crime, he is exonerated and brought back to the school. Hagrid then tells Harry and Ron to “follow the spiders,” which allows them to discover that Hagrid was actually innocent and that Aragog was not the monster who attacked and killed a student. They are interrupted, however, when Cornelius Fudge arrives to take Hagrid to Azkaban prison because the Chamber has been opened again. Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s loyalty to Hagrid prevents them from confronting him after this discovery, but when Hermione herself is attacked, Harry and Ron try to talk to Hagrid about these events. It is revealed later in the book that Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts fifty years earlier for opening the Chamber of Secrets, because Riddle found him taking care of a giant monster (which turns out to be the spider Aragog, and not the basilisk). Hagrid has a weakness for taking care of large and sometimes dangerous creatures. The groundskeeper at Hogwarts, who also serves as a mentor and friend to Harry.
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