Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

For the 2002 film adaptation, see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film).

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling. It was first published in 1998. All page numbers refer to the hardcover, American edition published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. ISBN 0-439-06486-4

See also: Harry Potter (series)

Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday

• She's bored. She's used to flying around outside. If I could let her out at night--
  • Pg. 1
  • Character - Harry Potter

• You've forgotten the magic word.
  • Pg. 2
  • Character - Harry Potter to Dudley Dursley at the breakfast table

• I meant 'please!' I didn't mean--
  • Pg. 2
  • Character - Harry Potter

• I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.
  • Pg. 6
  • Character - Harry Potter

• Jiggery pokery!... Hocus pocus-squiggly wiggly!
  • Pg. 9
  • Character - Harry Potter (pretending to do a magic spell)

• MUUUUUUM!... MUUUUM! He's doing you know what!
  • Pg. 9
  • Character - Dudley Dursley

Chapter 2: Dobby's Warning

• Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!
  • Pg. 14
  • Character - Dobby as he bangs his head on the window

• Just our nephew--very disturbed--meeting strangers upsets him, so we kept him upstairs.
  • Pg. 20
  • Character - Vernon Dursley
  • character - Mrs. Mason

Chapter 3: The Burrow

• Beds empty! No note! Car gone--could have crashed--out of my mind with worry--did you care?--never, as long as I've lived--you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy--
  • Pg. 33
  • Character - Molly Weasley

• YOU COULD DO WITH TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY'S BOOK!
  • Pg. 33
  • Character - Molly Weasley

• Your sons flew that car to Harry's house and back last night! ... What have you got to say about that, eh?
  • Pg. 39
  • Character - Molly Weasley to her husband, Arthur

• Did you really...Did it go all right? I -- I mean...that -- that was very wrong, boys -- very wrong indeed …
  • Pg. 39
  • Character - Arthur Weasley

• This is the best house I've ever been in.
  • Pg. 41
  • Character - Harry Potter referring to the Burrow.

Chapter 4: At Flourish and Blotts

• "I'm very busy with schoolwork, of course"- How can she be? ... We're on vacation!
  • Pg. 45
  • Character - Ron Weasley, while reading from Hermione's letter.

• ...Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies.
  • Pg. 46
  • Narration

• D-Dia-gon Alley
  • Pg. 48
  • Character - Harry Potter

• Nice big smile, Harry. Together, you and I are worth the front page.
  • Pg. 60
  • Character - Gilderoy Lockhart to Harry Potter

Chapter 5: The Whomping Willow

• Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.
  • Pg. 76
  • Character - Ron Weasley

• "Maybe he's ill!" said Ron hopefully.
  "Maybe he's left," said Harry, "because he missed out on the Defence Against the Dark Arts job again!"
  "Or he might have been sacked!" said Ron enthusiastically. "I mean, everyone hates him" "Or maybe," said a very cold voice right behind them, "he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train."
  • Pg. 77-78
  • Characters - Ron and Harry discuss the absence of Professor Snape from the Welcoming Feast, and are interrupted by Snape.

• Honestly, Professor, I think it did more damage to us than we--
  • Pg. 79
  • Character - Ron Weasley responding to Snape's charge that they had damaged the Whomping Willow

• Most unfortunately, you are not in my House and the decision to expel you does not rest with me. I shall go and fetch the people who do have that happy power. You will wait here.
  • Pg. 79
  • Character - Professor Snape speaking to Ron Weasley and Harry Potter

Chapter 6: Gilderoy Lockhart

• STEALING THE CAR, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SURPRISED IF THEY'D EXPELLED YOU, YOU WAIT TILL I GET HOLD OF YOU, I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU STOPPED TO THINK WHAT YOUR FATHER AND I WENT THROUGH WHEN WE SAW IT WAS GONE...LETTER FROM DUMBLEDORE LAST NIGHT, I THOUGHT YOUR FATHER WOULD DIE OF SHAME, WE DIDN'T BRING YOU UP TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS, YOU AND HARRY COULD BOTH HAVE DIED ... ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED--YOUR FATHER'S FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK, IT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT, AND IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT BACK HOME.
  • Pg. 88
  • Character - Mrs. Weasley's voice in the Howler that Ron receives

• You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.
  • Pg. 99
  • Character - Ron Weasley to Harry Potter

• Me, Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defence League, and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award -- but I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at her!
  • Pg. 99
  • Character - Gilderoy Lockhart

• I must ask you not to scream, ...It might provoke them...Yes, Freshly caught Cornish pixies.
  • Pg. 101
  • Character - Gilderoy Lockhart

Chapter 7: Mudbloods and Murmurs

• 'At least no one on Gryffindor team had to buy their way in,' said Hermione sharply. 'They got in on pure talent.'
  The smug look on Malfoy's face flickered.
  'No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood,' he spat.
  • Pg. 112

Chapter 8: The Deathday Party

• "D'you think I don't know what people call me behind my back? Fat Myrtle! Ugly Myrtle! Miserable, moaning, moping Myrtle!'

'You've missed out spotty,' Peeves hissed in her ear. ... 'Spotty! Spotty!"

• • Pg. 103, British edition, In the American version, spotty is replaced by pimply.

• "Well, this Halloween will be my five hundredth deathday," said Nearly Headless Nick, drawing himself up and looking dignified.

"Oh," said Harry, not sure whether he should look sorry or happy about this.

• • Pg. 129

Chapter 9: The Writing on the Wall

• '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.'
  • Pg. 144

• THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED ENEMIES OF THE HEIR BEWARE
  • Pg. 138

• 'Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.'
  • Pg. 145

• 'Really, Severus,' said Professor McGonagall sharply. 'I see no reason to stop the boy playing Quidditch. This cat wasn't hit over the head with a broomstick.'
  • Pg. 144

Chapter 10: The Rogue Bludger

• 'Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.'
  • Pg. 164

• You nearly got Ron and me expelled," he said fiercely. "You'd better get lost before my bones grow back, or I might strangle you.
  • Pg. 177

Chapter 11: The Dueling Club

• 'That was a Disarming Charm -- as you see, I've lost my wand -- ah, thank you, Miss Brown -- yes, an excellent idea to show them that, Professor Snape, but if you don't mind my saying so, it was very obvious what you were about to do. If I had wanted to stop you, it would have been only too easy -- however, I felt it would be instructive to let them see...'
  Snape was looking murderous.
  • Pg. 191, American edition

• Lockhart cuffed Harry merrily on the shoulder.
  'Just do what I did, Harry!'
  'What, drop my wand?'
  • Pg. 194, American edition

Chapter 13: The Very Secret Diary

• Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, why he didn't just throw Riddle's diary away. The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept absent-mindedly picking it up and turning the pages, as though it was a story he wanted to finish. And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and half-forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that.
  • Pg. 175

• His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
  His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
  I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
  The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
  • Pg. 178
  • The singing Valentine Harry receives from Ginny (supposedly).

Chapter 14: Cornelius Fudge

• "But that's very important!' said Hermione, shocked. [about Defense Against the Dark Arts]
  'Not the way Lockhart teaches it,' said Ron. 'I haven't learned anything from him except not to set pixies loose.'
  • Pg. 251, American edition

• 'That'd be a cheerful visit,' said Ron. 'Hello, Hagrid. Tell us, have you been setting anything mad and hairy loose in the castle lately?'
  • Pg. 250, American edition

Chapter 15: Aragog

• I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me … Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
  • Pg. 266
  • Dumbledore's final words to the school, as remembered by Harry

• Instead he contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight. Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded.
  • Pg. 270

Chapter 16: The Chamber of Secrets

• Ron looked as though he'd just been told he had to go and live in the Forbidden Forest.
  • Pg. 284
  • On being told he will have to take exams with a broken wand

• HER SKELETON WILL LIE IN THE CHAMBER FOREVER
• 'The first words out of those poor Petrified people's mouths will be, "It was Hagrid." Frankly, I'm astounded Professor McGonagall thinks all these security measures are necessary.'
  • Pg. 287
  • Spoken by Gilderoy Lockhart

• 'It’s not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog.'
  • Pg. 298
  • Spoken by Gilderoy Lockhart

Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin

• 'Haven't I already told you,' said Riddle, 'that killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me any more? For many months now, my new target has been you.'
  • Pg. 312
  • Tom Riddle speaking to Harry Potter

• 'Voldemort,' said Riddle softly, 'is my past, present, and future.…'
  • Pg. 313

Chapter 18: Dobby's Reward

• 'Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.'
  • Pg. 329

• 'I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,' said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth wide in horror.
  'Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
  • Pg. 330-331

• 'Exactly,' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.'
  • Pg. 333

About Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

• In his second year, Harry learns, among other things, about the three marks of existence that the Buddha taught, namely (1) that life involves suffering, (2) that we have no enduring separate self, and (3) that everything is constantly changing or transforming. Indeed, transformation is the key theme of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
  • Harry Potter’s Quest In The Chamber Of Secrets, by John Algeo, Theosophy in Australia, (March 2005)

• The first of those marks is that life involves pain or frustration. Harry experiences frustration throughout the novel, beginning with his misery during his summer vacation at the house of his Muggle relatives, where he was mistreated and isolated in every way — not even receiving letters from his school friends, because the house-elf Dobby was intercepting his mail (for what he thought was Harry’s own good). From that point onward, the novel is a catalog of Harry’s other frustrations and pains.
  • Harry Potter’s Quest In The Chamber Of Secrets, by John Algeo, Theosophy in Australia, (March 2005)

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	book	film
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