With that said, the outline to Chamber of Secrets:
Dobby - Dobby the House-elf makes his first appearance in Chamber of Secrets when he tries to save Harry Potter by preventing him from returning to Hogwarts. First, he stole all of Harry's letters during the summer to make it seem like his friends really didn't care about him, then closed the magical port that led to platform 9 3/4. during a Quidditch match, he enchanted a Bludger to chase after Harry during the game, which resulted in him breaking his arm. House-elves can only be freed when their owner gives them an article of clothing. At the end of the book, Harry places the diary into his sock and returns it to Lucius Malfoy. Lucius throws the sock aside, but Dobby catches the sock, which inadvertently frees Dobby.
The Burrow - The Burrow is the home to the Weasley family. Harry arrives at the Burrow after Fred, George, and Ron save Harry from the Dursleys, who have barred Harry's windows and locked him in his room after Dobby dropped a cake on Mrs. Mason's head. Harry and Ron would later use the car to arrive at Hogwarts after a magical barrier was placed on the platform at the train station, preventing them from taking the Hogwarts Express to school. The Burrow also has many interesting items, such as a clock that doesn't tell time but the location of every Weasley family member.
Borgin and Burkes - After using Floo Powder, Harry finds himself in a place called Borgin and Burkes located on Diagon Alley. When Lucius and Draco Malfoy enter the shop, Harry hides in an empty cabinet, which is part of a set of two Vanishing Cabinets.
Vanishing Cabinets - The cabinet in which Harry hides in at Borgin and Burkes is part of a set of two cabinets called the Vanishing Cabinets. Both of the cabinets make an appearance in Chamber of Secrets, though their actual use isn't used until Half-Blood Prince, when Draco fixed the one at Hogwarts and used it to allow Death Eaters into the school. Draco learns of the cabinet's ability to transport people after Fred and George force Montague, the Slytherin Quidditch captain and member of the Inquisitorial Squad into it when he tried to take house points from Gryffindor.
Whomping Willow - The Whomping Willow is a tree located on the grounds of Hogwarts. Ron and Harry crash into the tree with their magical car, causing Ron's wand to break. The Whomping Willow plays a relatively minor role in Chamber of Secrets, though we learn of the tunnel leading to the Shrieking Shack the tree is hiding in Prisoner of Azkaban.
Mudblood - The term Mudblood is first used in Chamber of Secrets. Mudblood is a derogatory term for a Muggle-born wizard or witch, a wizard with no wizard parents or grandparents.
Squib - A squib is a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent. Squibs are different than Muggles, since they are still aware of the wizard world, for example they are able to see Hogwarts.
Moaning Myrtle - Myrtle was a Muggle-born witch who attended Hogwarts at the time of Tom Riddle and Hagrid. She was killed by Tom Riddle, through the use of Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, when Tom Riddle created his first Horcrux, his diary. After her death, she became a ghost who haunts the second floor girl's bathroom at Hogwarts.
Parseltongue - Parseltongue is the ability to speak to snakes and it is a very rare ability amongst the wizard world. There are only a handful of people with the ability to speak to snakes, Salazar Slytherin, Lord Voldemort, and Harry Potter. During the dueling club fight between Draco and Harry, Draco uses a spell to summon a snake. The snake is about to attack Justin Filch-Finley, when Harry begins to speak Parseltongue, though Harry doesn't realize it. Of course, all the students are shocked and believe that Harry is the heir to Slytherin and opened the Chamber of Secrets.
Polyjuice Potion - Polyjuice Potion is a very complicated potion that allows the drinker to assume the form of someone else. While it can account for both age and gender, the potion cannot be used for a human to take an animal form. Ron, Harry, and Hermione use the potion to enter the Slytherin House and find out if Draco is actually the Heir of Slytherin and responsible for opening the Chamber of Secrets. Hermione transformed into a cat by mistake, since the hair she thought belonged to Millicent Bulstrode actually belonged to Millicent's cat.The potion is used throughout the series, such as in Goblet of Fire when Barty Crouch Jr. transforms himself into Madeye Moody for the entire school year. The ingredients of Polyjuice Potion are:
- 12 lacewing flies that have been stewed for 21 days
- 1 ounce of crude Antimony
- 4 leeches that have unsucculated
- 16 scruples of fluxweed that was picked at full moon
- 3 drachms of pulverized Sal Ammoniac
- Pulverized blades of knotgrass
- 1 pinch of powdered horn of a Bicorn that has been lunar extracted
- Filings and rasplings of Saltpeter, Mercury and Mars
- Shredded dried skin of a Boomslang
- Extract of The-Transfiguring-Being-To-Be
Armando Dippet - Armando Dippet was the Headmaster of Hogwarts fifty years ago when Tom Riddle and Hagrid were students there. Harry meets a portrait of Armando Dippet hanging in Dumbledore's office during the Order of the Phoenix.
Rubeus Hagrid - As mentioned in Sorcerer's Stone, Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts. While reading Tom Riddle's Diary, Harry views a memory of Riddle turning Hagrid in for opening the Chamber of Secrets and killing a student. In typical Hagrid fashion, Hagrid was caring for a creature in his cupboard. The headmaster believed Riddle's story and Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts, though Dumbledore did convince Dippet to take Hagrid in and train him as the gamekeeper. After Hagrid is once again taken to Azkaban at the end of the book, he gives Harry and Ron advice in his hut, telling them to follow the spiders. Ron and Harry follow the spiders into the Forbidden Forest, meeting Aragog, an acromantulas. The giant spider, loyal to Hagrid, tells the boys what actually happened the night the student had died. Aragog also hints to the boys that the Chamber of Secrets opening is located in the same bathroom that Moaning Myrtle spends her days.
Tom Riddle's Diary - Voldemort created seven Horcruxes prior to his defeat, which Harry learns about in Half-Blood Prince. One of the Horcruxes in the diary that Lucius Malfoy slipped into Ginny Weasley's books at Flourish and Blotts. The diary is destroyed by Harry in the Chamber of Secrets.
Chamber of Secrets - At the end of the book, Ginny Weasley has gone missing, being taken to the Chamber of Secrets with the diary in hand. While in the chamber, Harry finally learns that Tom Riddle is actually Lord Voldemort. The letters in Riddle's full name (Tom Marvolo Riddle) can be rearranged to read I am Lord Voldemort. After learning that Riddle is Voldemort, Fawkes arrives with the Sorting Hat. Riddle unleashes the basilisk that has been tormenting the school onto Harry, but Fawkes intervenes by pecking the serpent's eyes out so that he can't kill Harry through his stare. Godric Gryffindor's Sword appears in the Sorting Hat after Harry places the hat on his head. Harry uses the sword to kill the basilisk and a tooth from the serpent to destroy the diary.
Godric Gryffindor's Sword - The sword was made by goblins and will take on the properties of substances it encounters. In this case, the sword was used to kill the basilisk, which in turn, then absorbed the blood of the basilisk. The Horcruxes created by Voldemort can only be destroyed by damaging it beyond repair. There are only a few ways in which this can be done, through basilisk venom, which has only one cure (Phoenix tears) or a magical smelting procedure, such as the Fiendfyre spell used in the last book.
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