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Post by valderra on Sept 13, 2006 16:28:10 GMT -5
Short intro to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.
But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone - or something - starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself!
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Post by Oliver on Sept 14, 2006 19:43:20 GMT -5
This is by far my favorite Harry Potter book. It's got so many awsome twists, and heart-stopping action, when I read it for the first time when Harry reads the note in Hermione's hand about the Basilisk and he pieces it all together, it just blew my mind. But I didn't like it in the movie, when Harry was fighting the Basiliks, how they had to do all that crap chasing through the pipes and then he climbs the statue of Salazar slytherin... it was way better in the book, the way it was. And when they're flying in the car and Harry falls out the door... now that was completely lame. I didn't even flinch when it happened, it was SO obvious Harry was going to survive. DUH!
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