Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Chatpter 10 The Rogue Bludger

 The Gryffindors and Slytherins face off in a Quidditch match. A bludger acts very strange and only tries to knock Harry off his broom, it eventually breaks Harry's arm. Despite this Gryffindor wins the match. Lockhart attempts to mend Harry's arm but removes his arms' bones instead. In the hospital wing to regrow his bones, Dobby appears and some things are revealed.

Since the disastrous episode of the pixies, Proffesor Lockhart had not brought live creatures to the class. Instead, he read passages from his books to them, and sometimes reenacted bits of them.

How will these poor children ever learn to defend themselves?

I was a Seeker too. I was asked to try for the National Squad, but preferred to dedicate my life to the eradication of the Dark Forces.

Well then, Lockhart, assuming that this isn't some mumbo-jumbo you're making up to puff yourself up, YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SEEKER INSTEAD OF A LIAR.

"You nearly got Ron and me expelled," he said fiercely, "you'd better get lost before my bones come back, Dobby, or I might strangle you."

No, Harry Potter! YOU AND RON almost got YOURSELVES expelled. >:|

It was Colin Creevey. His eyes were wide and his hands were stuck up in front of him, holding his camera.
"Petrified?" whispered Madam Pomfrey.

Oh no, Colin. :( At least I won't have to handle your bothersome personality anymore.

"But, Albus....surely...who?"
"The question is not who" said Dumbledore, his eyes on Colin, "The question is how...."

Dumbledore knows! He knows a whole lot more than Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. So assist or get his help. You're twelve year olds. I know you want to think you can do anything but things wold be a lot eaiser with Dumbledore's help.

Oh, yes, I have finally decided to take 20 points from Lockhart for just being himself and 8 more from Dobby for trying to permanently handicap Harry Potter for the rest of his life.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Chapter 9 The Writing on the Wall

After the strange and scary events of Mrs. Norris' petrification, people begin to think Harry did it. The trio decide to take action and check out the crime scene.

 

"Potter and his friends may have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, a slight sneer curling his mouth as though he doubted it. "But we do have a set of suspicious circumstances here. Why was he in the upstairs corridor at all? Why wasn't he at the Halloween feast?"

Stop, Snape! Just stop bullying these children! Stop holding grudges, stop being prejudice. Act your age, be a man. This is childish behavior.

"I'll make it," Lockhart butted in. "I must have done it a hundred times. I could whip up a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep --"

"Excuse me," said Snape icily. "but I believe I am the Potions master at this school."

There was a very awkward pause.

Ahhh, yeah! You can be mean to Lockhart, I don't mind, Snape. I'd also like to add that Snape does have good qualities. I always forget that I'm seeing everything through the "Harry Potter filter" which isn't always the best filter to see through. Snape does a lot of the behind the scenes stuff, a lot of which most everyone doesn't see. Sorcerer's Stone is a great example of that. Yes, Snape has difficulty with grudges (we all have struggles in our life). It's not right that he takes it out on an innocent person. His good deeds don't make his mean behavior less terrible. But there is more to Snape than just bullying the Gryffindors.

"D'you think I should have told them about that voice I heard?"

"No," said Ron quickly. "Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

Oh, Ronald, that's such bad advice. I assume Ron is afraid for his friend. If Harry tells someone about hearing the voice it would be "confirmed" in Ron's mind. Just a thought, not sure if it's what is really going on.

But anyways, he should've told them. It would probably be better if he spoke privately with Dumbledore. In the end, something "wrong" is happening and he should get some help. (I put wrong in quotes because really nothing is wrong with Harry. He just has a rare ability.)

"I always knew Salazar Slytherin was a twisted old loony," Ron told Harry and Hermione as they fought their way through the teeming corridors at the end of the lesson to drop off their bags before dinner. "But I never knew he started all this pure-blood stuff. I wouldn't be in his House if you paid me. Honestly, if the Sorting Hat had tried to put me in Slytherin, I'd've got the train straight back home..."

Hermione nodded fervently.

Here we are again, hating on other houses. Judging all of them based on a few people. Prejudice. Stereo-typing. It displeases me greatly. I am so disappointed that even the trio falls to this. I'm not going to pretended I know all about the true qualities of every house. I don't but it's something I want to study over some more. (Oh, goodness, did I really just say I need to study on trivial matters in a book? I just love books. I love understanding characters and why they are the way they are. But anyways...)

Again it must be remembered that we're seeing through the "Harry filter". There are a ton of Slytherin students and truly we've only met a handful of them. Slytherin does have good qualities. To me they seem to be great evaluators and planners. They're cunning, resourceful, determined. They are many other things.

"Can't go in there," said Ron gruffly. "That's a girl's toilet."

I find it so amusing how they often use bathrooms in the books. I wonder if a bathroom is used in every book, hmmm.

The argument between Ron and Percy saddens me greatly. I do think Percy cares for Ginny (despite Ron yelling he doesn't). He cares for Ron too and all his family. Percy has come from a poor family. A poor family who is often looked down upon. Percy wants to be someone, he wants to make a name for himself. But I think he let's himself get too caught up in it which is unfortunate.

Honestly? They honestly think Draco is the heir of Slytherin. Oh gosh.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Chapter 8 The Deathday Party

Wood keeps working the quidditch team hard during their practices. Harry agrees to attend Nick's deathday party on Halloween after Nick saved him from a punishment with Peeves. Hermione and Ron attend the party with Harry and the three of them see all the absurdity that a deathday party is. Harry hears strange voices again and they find Mrs. Norris petrified.

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"The vanishing cabinet was extremely valuable!" he was saying gleefully to Mrs. Norris

Woah, vanishing cabinet! So it seems that when the cabinet was broken it was moved to the room of requirement. Interesting. I wonder who moved it. They should've thrown it out. :(

The passageway to Nearly Headless Nick's party had been lined with candles, too...


...played by an orchestra on a raised, black-draped platform. A chandelier overhead blazed midnight blue with a thousand more black candles.

Ghosts can't grip things. So who set this all up? And The orchestra can't be ghosts since they're holding instruments, so who are they?

Is Helena Ravenclaw not there? Man, she's never around. I understand that the Baron is there but you'd think they would've made up after haunting the same place for hundreds of years.

UGH, those headless huntsmen are such show-offs. Grrr! >:|

"I can't stand much more of this," Ron muttered, his teeth chattering, as the orchestra ground back into action and the ghosts swept back onto the dance floor.
"Let's go," Harry agreed.

Aw, poor, Nick. He's party isn't going at all as planned. :(

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Chapter 7 Mudbloods and Murmurs

On Saturday Harry is woken by Oliver Wood as the whole team is to have practice. Howver the Slytherin team shows up with their new seeker, Draco Malfoy who says a nasty things about Hermione. Ron defends her but ends up having his curse rebound on himself. Later that night Harry and Ron have their detentions.

I feel kind of bad that the only reason Draco gets on the team is because his father bought all those brooms (it seems at least). Also, did they just kick the past seeker out? :( I just really feel like Draco has bad authority figures in his life, Lucius, Narcissa and Snape. It makes me wonder if he had better authority figures to look up to would he be different? And all the Slytherins for that matter.


"What happened, Harry? What happened? Is he ill? But you can cure him, can't you?" Colin had run down from his seat ad was now dancing alongside them as they left the field. Ron gave a huge heave and more slugs dribbled down his front.
"Oooh," said Colin, fascinated and raising his camera. "Can you hold him still, Harry?"

JUST STOP, COLIN. Oh my goodness. I understand his excitement. Hogwarts is amazing. But he's really taking it too far. Barfing slugs is not a cool thing to take a picture of. Make some other friends. Stop following Harry around just because he's famous! I want to like you because you're young and innocent but you get on my nerves, Colin. :(

The minutes snailed by. Harry let Lockhart's voice wash over him, occasionally saying, "Mmm" and "Right" and "Yeah" 
 Now and then he caught a phrase like "Fame's a fickle friend, Harry," or "Celebrity is as celebrity does, remember that."

Sometimes, Lockhart is funny (but the majority of the time he's very irritating).

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Chapter 6 Gilderoy Lockhart

Ron recieves a Howler from his mother during breakfast. Afterward the students of Hogwarts take begin their first classes. Lockhart seems to think Harry is seeking fame and Defense Against the Dark Arts are ridiculous.

I don't know why I haven't seen this picture before now, bahahaha.

Mrs. Weasley's yells, a hundred times louder than usual, made the plates and spoons rattle on the table, and echoed deafeningly off the stone walls.

Wowie, those Howlers are louder than I thought or remembered.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were joined at their tray by a curly-haired Hufflepuff boy Harry knew by sight but had never spoken to.
"Justin Finch-Fletchley," he said birghtly, shaking Harry by the hand. "Know who you are, of course, the famous Harry Potter....And you're Hermione Granger - always top in everything"
(Hermione beamed as she had her hand shaken too) " -- And Ron Weasley. Wasn't that your flying car?"

HEY IT'S A HUFFLEPUFF, AND HE'S NOT JUST BEING MENTIONED BUT IS ACTUALLY TALKING.

"That Lockhart is something, isn't he? said Justin happily as they began filling their plant pods with dragon dung compost.

Oh, Justin, no. :(

"Why." demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?"
Hermione snatched the schedule back, blushing furiously.

Hermione, no, please! :(

Colin and Lockhart are annoying me. There's too much of the both of them in this chapter.

"Rubbish," said Hermione. "You've read his books -- look at all those amazing things he's done --"
"He says he's done," Ron muttered. 

YES RON, THANK YOU.

You get a point for making me feel better after all the annoyingness of this chapter.