BOOK REVIEW: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets: A Book Review
Mr. Paolo Serrano

Media & Information Literacy Teacher
Jose C. Feliciano College Foundation
Dear Mr. Serrano

We are pleased that you have accepted our submitted form of our
book review about the book of HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF
SECRETS. We are looking forward for your appreciation towards this
humble work.
Please feel free to ask anything, we are more than willing to
answer your questions. Thank you and enjoy!
Yours sincerely,
Mary Rose Samson
Shem Sanchez
John Benedict Tobias
STEM 12-C
Synopsis
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets begins when Harry is
spending a miserable summer with his only remaining family, the Dursleys.
During a dinner party hosted by his uncle and aunt, Harry is visited by
Dobby, a house-elf. Dobby warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts, the
magical school for wizards that Harry attended the previous year. Harry
politely disregards the warning, and Dobby wreaks havoc in the kitchen,
infuriating the Dursleys. The Dursleys angrily imprison Harry in his room
for the rest of the summer. Luckily, Harry's friend Ron Weasley steals
Harry away in a flying car, and Harry happily spends the rest of the summer
at the Weasley home.
While shopping for school supplies with the Weasleys, Harry has two
unfortunate encounters. He first encounters Lockhart, one of his teachers, who
demands to be in a photo shoot with Harry. Harry then encounters Lucius
Malfoy, the evil father of one of Harry's enemies, who almost starts a fight
with Mr. Weasley. As Harry prepares to return to Hogwarts, he finds that
he and Ron are unable to enter the magically invisible train platform, so they
fly the Weasley car to Hogwarts. They land messily, and both boys are given
detentions. Lockhart, who believes Harry flew the car to get attention, lectures
Harry.
Quidditch practices begin and Draco Malfoy is the new Slytherin
seeker. On the field, he calls Hermione a "mudblood," insulting her Muggle
heritage. After taunting Hermione, Draco is the suspect when, on Halloween
night, someone petrifies the school caretaker's cat and writes a threatening
message. Before the cat is attacked, Harry twice hears an eerie voice. He
hears it first during his detention and second during a party, moments before
the cat is attacked. Everybody in the school is alarmed. By doing some
research, Harry, Ron, and Hermione learn that fifty years ago a chamber at
Hogwarts was opened and a student was killed.
Playing for Gryffindor, Harry wins the Quidditch match against
Slytherin. During the game, an enchanted ball hits Harry and causes him to
lose the bones in his arm. Dobby, a house elf, has enchanted the ball in an effort
to have Harry injured and sent home. That night, Harry sees the body of a
first-year who has been petrified arrive at the hospital. Soon after, Lockhart
begins a dueling club. During the first meeting, Harry terrifies his fellow
students by speaking in Parseltongue to a snake. Harry's ability frightens the
others because only the heir of Slytherin, who is responsible for opening the
chamber, would have the ability to converse with snakes. Harry comes under
further suspicion when he stumbles upon the petrified bodies of Justin Finch-
Fletchley and Nearly- Headless Nick.
Determined to catch the culprit, Ron, Harry and Hermione brew a
potion called Polyjuice. The potion allows them to assume the bodies of
Slytherins and question Malfoy on the Chamber of Secrets. They find out that
Malfoy is not the heir of Slytherin. No more attacks occur for a while, and
right before Valentine's Day, Harry finds a diary in the broken toilet. The
diary belongs to a ghost named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' restroom.
Harry writes in the diary, which responds by writing back. Through this
dialogue, Harry meets Tom Riddle, a boy who many years before had
accused Hagrid of opening the Chamber of Secrets.
Hermione and a Ravenclaw girl are mysteriously petrified. Harry and
Ron venture out of the castle to question Hagrid. Before they reach Hagrid,
the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, and Lucius Malfoy remove
Dumbledore and Hagrid from Hogwarts. As Hagrid is led away, he
instructs the boys that by following the spiders, they can find out about the
Chamber monster. Several nights later, Harry and Ron sneak into the
Forbidden Forest to follow the spiders. They discover the monster who killed
the girl fifty years before was not a spider, that the girl's body was found in a
bathroom, and that Hagrid is innocent. The boys are almost killed by a colony
of giant spiders. As they escape, Harry and Ron decide that Moaning Myrtle
must have been the girl killed by the monster.
A few days later, Ron and Harry discover a piece of paper with a
description of a basilisk on it in Hermione's frozen hand. They deduce the
Chamber monster is a basilisk. Before the boys can act on their knowledge, the
teachers announce that Ginny Weasley has been taken into the chamber. Ron,
Harry, and Lockhart slide down a secret passage in Myrtle's bathroom to
underground tunnels. When Lockhart accidentally curses himself, Ron helps
him and Harry leaves them behind. Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets and
encounters Ginny's still body and Tom Riddle. Tom turns out to be a younger
version of Voldemort, who has been enchanting Ginny through his journal.
Harry calls for help from Dumbledore. A phoenix and a magic hat arrive.
Tom summons a basilisk, but the phoenix punctures its eyes. The hat produces
a sword, which Harry uses to kill the giant snake. Harry sticks a basilisk fang
through the diary, destroying Tom. Ginny wakes up.
Harry explains his adventure to Dumbledore. Lucius Malfoy storms into
the office with his house-elf, Dobby, and Harry frees Dobby from by tricking
Lucius into giving Dobby a sock. All is well in the castle as the students leave
for their summer vacations.
JCFC TO HOGWARTS
School of witchcraft and wizardry
Setting:
Hogwarts is a British
wizarding school
located in the Highland
of Scotland. It was
considered to be one of
the finest magical
institution in the
wizarding world.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and

Wizardry
Characters
Harry Potter
– A twelve-year-old boy with a messy hair and circular glasses
who is famous in the wizarding world by surviving the curse of
a powerful dark wizard when he was just a baby. Harry
sometimes finds himself getting into trouble in the muggle world
for he doesn’t have any idea of being a wizard. When he
discovered the truth and stepped into the Hogwarts School of
witchcraft and wizardry for the second time, He opened the
chamber of secrets though he does not belong to Slytherin house
through parsel tongue. His character represents innocence,
childhood and good intensions.
Hermione Granger
-Hermione is on the Harry’s friend at Hogwarts, a brilliant
muggle-born wizard that is always being on the top of the class.
She is well-read and skillful student at Hogwarts. Even when
she was petrified, she was able to help to the mystery, her
intelligence serves as an instrument for Harry to find out what
is in the chamber. Very principled and fond of rules, Hermione
unwillingly followed the boys to discover the mystery of the
chamber of secrets.
Ronald Weasley
-A tall, young red-haired boy, Harry’s best friend, that came
from the poor but respected family; Ron’s family is a pure-
wizard blood. He is a loyal friend to Harry potter, He and
harry is inseparable, he was often perceived as sidekick of
Harry that usually goes under experiences and the trial and
error process to solve most of the mysteries. Even if sometimes
he is overshadowed, he still managed to succeed and always has
good intensions.
Tom Riddle
-He is the preserved memory on the diary of Voldemort, a
dark powerful wizard that entered Hogwarts fifty years ago
before Harry. He is the last descendant of Salazar Slytherin.
Through his old diary, which is one of the horcrux, he enchants
Ginny Weasley to perform dark tasks that will help his plans to
succeed.
Ginny Weasley
-A red-haired, shy-type younger sister of Ron. She was the
one who first discovered the diary of Tom and opened the
chamber for the first time in the last fifty years through the
manipulative diary to release the Basilisk. She has an enormous
crush on Harry Potter.
Reflection
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets presents many important
lessons in life that influences the reader. The book explores very wide range in
all aspects of life such as love, death, humbleness, loyalty, curiosity, and
camaraderie.
In this series of Harry Potter, the story taught us how important loyalty
is. One of the best example is Dobby the House Elf that has been a very loyal
one to his master no matter how harsh is master is. Another is Ron Weasley.
He was a very loyal and good friend to Harry Potter. When uncle Vernon
Dursley did not allow Harry to go to Hogwarts, Ron is there ready to help
him all the way. Just like in the real life, this proves that loyalty is in the eye of
the beholder. Without loyalty, it would be very difficult to live in this world of
unloyalty and it is worthy to have a loyal friend than to have millions of gold.
Humbleness has also been a great subject in the story. Harry Potter
showed this trait in the story. Even he is that famous and popular, he still
managed to be with those people who were not on top. He befriended
Hermione Granger who was a Muggle Born (a disliked race in the
wizarding world) and Ron Weasley who came from a poor family. The
character of Harry proves that success comes with humbleness.
Lastly, the book tells that there is no secret that cannot be revealed. When
Harry Potter discovered the Chamber, he had a face to face moment with
Tom Riddle (aka Voldemort) who was only a memory of the Dark Lord and
revealed his dark secrets of Harry. This only proves that all secrets will be
revealed no matter what, in the right time.
The book taught us very well in all aspects of life. It relates to the life of
the people of reads it. The story only shows that in in life, we should always be
humble no matter how great we became and be a loyal friend to be trusted in
hard times. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets only proves that life is a
lovely story and full of incident.
Credits
Submitted by:
Samson, Mary Rose
Sanchez, shem
Tobias, john benedict
12-stem-c
Submitted to:
Mr. Paolo serrano
June 29, 2017

BOOK REVIEW: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

BOOK REVIEW: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

BOOK REVIEW: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

What is the plot summary of the book?

Who are the main characters introduced in the book?

Harry Potter and the Chamber

of Secrets: A Book Review

Mr. Paolo Serrano

Dear Mr. Serrano

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and

June 29, 2017

You might also like