Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

If you remember a while back, I reviewed the first Harry Potter movie, I like the first one so let's see if the second one is any better. Little side note, I am now going back to doing one review a week because it was too hard to do two a week. So let's head off to Hogwarts as I review Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

We start at Harry's (Daniel Radcliffe) home where his step family, the Vernon's, are having guests over for dinner and they don't want Harry and his magic ruining anything. So they tell him to keep in his room while they have guests over. But Harry discovers a House Elf named Dobby (Toby Jones) in his room warning him to not go to Hogwarts. Harry says he wants to go to Hogwarts and Dobby has no choice but to drop a cake on the head of one of guests and make it look like Harry did it. This causes his family to forbid him from going back to Hogwarts and lock him in his room. But luckily Ron (Rubert Grint) breaks Harry out of his house using a flying car and takes him to his house. When we get to Ron's house we find that Ron's sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright) is going to Hogwarts. Harry stays there and he gets a message from the school telling him what books to buy. They go to Diagon Alley where they go to a bookshop where a famous wizard named Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branaph) who turns out will be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. They buy the books and we cut to a few month later where they are trying to make it to the train to Hogwarts. But some sort of magical barrier is keeping Ron and Harry from getting on the train. So they use the Flying car from before to fly to Hogwarts but end up crashing it and the car drives itself off into the woods. Harry and Ron get lucky and don't end up getting expelled.

 School seems to be going normally until one day the resident bully Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) insults Harry's friend Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron tries to cast a spell on Malfoy but it backfires and everyone ends up getting a detention. Harry's detention is helping Professor Lockhart answer his fan mail but on his way back to his dorm he comes across the cat Mrs. Norris who has been petrified with some cryptic text on the wall next to it. This causes quite a big panic as you may imagine but that doesn't stop Harry and his team from playing Quitich. When one of balls is possessed it tries to attack Harry and he ends up falling to the ground and breaking his arm. Lockhart tries to heal his arm but ends up making all the bones in his in his arm vanish. That night a student turns up petrified just like the cat did and people are starting to worry. With everything going badly Lockhart starts self defence classes but one of the students summons a snake and Harry finds a way to talk to it which freaks everyone out and makes them think he might be the one petrifying everyone. It also doesn't help that two more people have been petrified. Harry finds a mysterious Diary that apparently has the mind of a former student in it. Harry sees through the memories of the student that the same thing happened 50 years ago and that Hagrid was the one behind it which is why he got expelled. Harry and Ron go to talk to Hagrid and he tells them to "Follow the spiders". They follow some spiders into the forest where they see a giant spider that used to be Hagrid's pet. But the spiders says that he isn't the monster in the school and he tries to eat Ron and Harry. They escape from him and the next day they find out that Hermione has also been Petrified.

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They find a piece of paper in Hermione's hand which says that the monster attacking everyone is a basilisk which is a snake monster. Ron and Harry find out that Ron's sister Ginny was taken into the Basilisks lair called the Chamber of Secrets. They manage to find the entrance to the chamber and go into it. Ron is separated from Harry due to a cave in but he tells Harry to find his sister. Harry finds her and discovers the person who is in control of the basilisk is Tom Riddle. It turns out through some sort of spell he preserved his 16 year old mind inside the book and used the spell to posses Ginny to do his work. Riddle also reveals that he grew up to be Voldemort AKA the man who killed Harry's parents. Riddle releases the Basilisk but Harry defeats it and saves Ginny. They escape and they are all rewarded for defeating the Basilisk. The End.

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This was a great sequel to the first Harry Potter. The special effects are pretty good and so is the acting I love all the different details in the sets. It is fun movie all the way through. I recommend this as a fun adventure movie. See you next time.