Tuesday, April 9, 2013

English Task Novel Review


Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets is the second trilogy of Harry Potter books.

Plot:
Harry Potter was told to prepare the house for a visit from Uncle Vernon Dursley potential clients. However, once completed, uncle Dursley told Harry to his room. In the room, Harry meets Dobby the house elf, he warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts. When Harry refuses, Dobby causes chaos at home and make Harry damaging Vernon meeting. Vernon locks Harry in his room to prevent the return to Hogwarts. But, Ron, Fred, and George Weasley arrive in their flying car to rescue Harry from the clutches of Uncle Vernon, who was trying to pull Harry back to his room. Harry was taken to The Burrow, the Weasleys.

At The Burrow, Harry meets Ron's sister, Ginny, who will start school at Hogwarts and Harry liked it turns out. Harry also meets Ron's father, Arthur Weasley. Harry and the Weasleys go to Diagon Alley using Floo powder. When shopping, Harry meets Gilderoy Lockhart, a famous wizard and author, and also met Draco Malfoy and his father, Lucius, who praise Voldemort and mocked Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys.

At King's Cross Station, the entire Weasley family could enter Platform 9 3/4 without trouble. However, Harry and Ron find the magical barrier blocked that. As a result, they miss the Hogwarts Express. Later, Harry and Ron flew up the car and reach Hogwarts, but they landed in the Whomping Willow. Ron's wand is broken and the auto-"crazy", pushing them and driving itself into the Forbidden Forest. When Harry and Ron enter Hogwarts they are seen by prof. Snape, who berated them for up the flying car to Hogwarts and nearly put them out of school. Prof. Dumbledore And Professor McGonagall. arrives, Prof. McGonagall defends them and tell them that they will only receive detention only.

Shortly after the start of term, Harry begins to hear sounds "cool" coming from inside the walls of the school. Began when he was serving his sentence with Lockhart. Harry, Ron, and Hermione find mural "Chamber of Secrets has been opened, enemies Heir, Beware". Written in blood on the wall and they found that Argus Filch's cat has been petrified. Filch then blame Harry and tried to attack him but was stopped by Dumbledore and McGonagall.

Legend has it that the Chamber can only be opened by the Heir of Slytherin, is said to be the home of a creature that will only obey the Heir. Harry suspects the Heir is Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart, the Defense Against the Dark Arts, offers a dueling club. At the meeting Draco raises snakes, and found that he could talk to snakes. Hermione explains that Harry is a Parselmouth like Salazar Slytherin, a similarity that causes the contents of the school believe Harry is the Heir.

Hermione then make a Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as the three friends Malfoy. Harry and Ron managed disguised as Crabbe and Goyle, but Hermione instead turned into a cat. Harry and Ron then interrogate Malfoy, but eventually they find out that he is not the heir. In the bathroom, Harry finds a diary written in it belongs to someone named Tom Marvolo Riddle. Through the book, Harry was amazed at the events that happened fifty years ago when Tom was a student at Hogwarts. Those memories incriminate Hagrid as the Heir.

During the school year, Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Hermione and even the Gryffindor ghost Sir Nicholas are found petrified and Tom Riddle's diary disappeared. Harry and Ron decide to visit Hagrid, but before Hagrid could answer the true identity of who opened the Chamber of Secrets, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge and Lucius Malfoy arrive. While Ron and Harry hide in the cloak. They tell Hagrid that they are suspending Dumbledore as headmaster and arrested Hagrid because it is considered to have opened the Chamber of Secrets. Before Hagrid was taken to Azkaban prison, he tells Ron and Harry to follow the spiders into the Forbidden Forest to find out the truth.

They did so and meet Aragog, a giant spider that has killed students accused of fifty years ago. Aragog reveals that he is not the monster who killed the student and Hagrid is innocent. Aragog children attacked Harry and Ron, but the flying car come rescue them.

Harry and Ron find a piece of paper in Hermione's hand that the monster is a basilisk. They also heard the teachers saying that Ginny has been taken into the Chamber of Secrets. Lockhart is sent to find the room and save Ginny, but he tries to escape until Harry and Ron catch him. It turns out Lockhart's past is false, it uses a memory-eraser spell the witches, and then took them to her achievements.

The trio found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in the bathroom Moaning Myrtile, the girl who died the first time when the Chamber was opened). Then they go and find a giant snake skin. After Lockhart feigned fainting, he tried to stop Harry and Ron using a memory-eraser spell. But because he was wearing Ron's wand is broken, the spell backfires and eventually attack itself. Lockhart lost his memory and make the cave collapsed, separating Harry and Ron. Harry then find Ginny. Then Tom Riddle appears, explaining that he is a memory preserved in the diary, and also Ginny Weasley who opened the Chamber of Secrets because hypnotized by him, which sends the basilisk to attack, and that Ginny also writes a message on the wall. Harry learns that Riddle was the Heir of Slytherin and he was in the form of teenage Lord Voldemort. Riddle then issued and sent Basilisk to kill Harry. When pressed for Harry, Dumbledore Phoenix bird, Fawkes came and attacked the basilisk eye. Fawkes gives Harry the Sorting Hat, which Harry pulled the sword of Godric Gryffindor. When Basilisk opened his mouth, Harry poked his palate through his head, but his hand stuck poisonous basilisk fangs. Harry destroys Voldemort / Riddle by piercing the diary with a basilisk fang poisonous. Ginny then re-conscious and find Harry dying but Fawkes heals Harry's wound with his tears. Fawkes brings Harry, Ginny and Ron out of the Chamber of Secrets.

Dumbledore continued his post as Principal and send documents from Azkaban to release Hagrid. Dumbledore Harry eased concerns about its feasibility to be a Gryffindor by saying that the only really a Gryffindor who can summon the sword of Godric.

Finally Harry knew that Lucius gave the diary to the Ginny and elf Dobby is the Malfoys. Then Harry makes Lucius gave socks to Dobby who makes Dobby finally free from family. At the end of the year party, all victims petrified basilisk back to the original state, and Hagrid received a tremendous welcome when he returns to Hogwarts.

Review:
According to me, this books is a very interesting book.In this book, we finally know what is the secret of  Voldemort real name : Tom Marvolo Riddle. This book also tell the first time Harry falls in love with Ron’s little sister, Ginny.

From many people views , the Chamber of Secrets opens doors to aspects of the Harry Potter series that will be very important later on, ideas about Voldermort’s past and his soul and even his choice to hunt Harry begin to take shape and future relationships are hinted at.

However, when it comes down to it The Chamber of Secrets is most definitely the weakest and less interesting to read of all the Potter books, the story line is predictable and the newly introduced characters are pretty stereotypical and quite easy to predict.

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