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[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_01.jpg|thumb|Harry sitting on a bench, unaware of someone in the bushes]]
[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_01.jpg|thumb|Harry sitting on a bench, unaware of someone in the bushes]]
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[[Harry Potter]] has returned to the [[Dursley family|Dursley]]s for the summer holiday in mid-[[1992]], and things are very bad for him. Over the summer, the Dursleys have become so fearful of Harry's new-found [[magic]]al abilities that they have locked away all of Harry's magical supplies (e.g. [[Harry Potter's wand|his wand]], [[Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 broomstick|his broomstick]], spellbooks, etc.) immediately after his arrival home.
The Dursleys
have also banned Harry from saying words such as "magic" in the [[4 Privet Drive|house]], as evident in [[Vernon Dursley|Uncle Vernon]]'s outburst at breakfast. They did, however, let him keep his pet snowy owl [[Hedwig]] in room, but
have
asked
the
boy
to keep
her
locked
in
her
cage
day and night to avoid suspicion from the
neighbours
. This
doesn't
go well for the bird, because every time she has become bored, her screech have rung throughout the house, causing an irritated Vernon to warn Harry that if he
can't
control her, she would have to go.
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[[Harry Potter]] has returned to the [[Dursley family|Dursley]]s for the summer holiday in mid-[[1992]], and things are very bad for him. Over the summer, the Dursleys have become so fearful of Harry's new-found [[magic]]al abilities that they have locked away all of Harry's magical supplies (e.g. [[Harry Potter's wand|his wand]], [[Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 broomstick|his broomstick]], spellbooks, etc.) immediately after his arrival home.
They
have also banned Harry from saying words such as "magic" in the [[4 Privet Drive|house]], as evident in [[Vernon Dursley|Uncle Vernon]]'s outburst at breakfast. They did, however, let him keep his pet snowy owl [[Hedwig]] in room, but
put
a
padded
lock
on
her
cage
to keep
her
inside
day and night to avoid suspicion from the
neighbors
. This
does not
go well for the bird, because every time she has become bored, her screech have rung throughout the house, causing an irritated Vernon to warn Harry that if he
cannot
control her, she would have to go.
On [[31 July]] (Harry's twelfth birthday), Harry has never felt so lonely, he misses Hogwarts and his best friends [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] and [[Hermione Granger]]. Neither of them have written to him all summer, not even to send birthday wishes. [[Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia]], [[Dudley Dursley|Dudley]], and Uncle Vernon are having a dinner party for one of Vernon's clients, [[Mason|Mr Mason]], and Harry has to stay in his room for the night, making no noise and "pretending he doesn't exist". However, when he gets there, someone else is on his bed...
On [[31 July]] (Harry's twelfth birthday), Harry has never felt so lonely, he misses Hogwarts and his best friends [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] and [[Hermione Granger]]. Neither of them have written to him all summer, not even to send birthday wishes. [[Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia]], [[Dudley Dursley|Dudley]], and Uncle Vernon are having a dinner party for one of Vernon's clients, [[Mason|Mr Mason]], and Harry has to stay in his room for the night, making no noise and "pretending he doesn't exist". However, when he gets there, someone else is on his bed...
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In return for distracting [[Argus Filch]] just when he's about to give Harry severe punishment, Harry promises he will come to [[Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Nearly Headless Nick]]'s [[Deathday Party]] on [[Hallowe'en]]. He brings Ron and Hermione along as well. While there, they meet Moaning Myrtle. The three of them quickly get sickened by the ghostly party and return to the [[Great Hall]].
In return for distracting [[Argus Filch]] just when he's about to give Harry severe punishment, Harry promises he will come to [[Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Nearly Headless Nick]]'s [[Deathday Party]] on [[Hallowe'en]]. He brings Ron and Hermione along as well. While there, they meet Moaning Myrtle. The three of them quickly get sickened by the ghostly party and return to the [[Great Hall]].
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[[File:CHAMBERsterces.PNG|thumb|''The Chamber of Secrets has been opened - Enemies of the heir, beware'']]
Before they get to the [[Hallowe'en feast]], Harry hears the voice (which Ron and Hermione also cannot hear) and follows it to the second floor, where he finds the bathroom flooded and [[Mrs Norris]], Filch's cat, hanging from a torch bracket, petrified and coupled with a message on the wall, reading "''THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE"''. Then, students leaving the Hallowe'en Feast surround them. And Malfoy yells: "Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"
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Before they get to the [[Hallowe'en feast]], Harry hears the voice (which Ron and Hermione also cannot hear) and follows it to the second floor, where he finds the bathroom flooded and [[Mrs Norris]], Filch's cat, hanging from a torch bracket, petrified and coupled with a message on the wall, reading "''THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE"''. Then, students leaving the Hallowe'en Feast surround them. And Malfoy yells: "Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"
===Chapter 9: The Writing on the Wall===
===Chapter 9: The Writing on the Wall===
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===Chapter 11: The [[Duelling Club]]===
===Chapter 11: The [[Duelling Club]]===
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{{Quote|Now, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little duelling club, to train you all in case you ever need to defend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions - for full details, see my published works. |Gilderoy Lockhart, presenting the Duelling Club.}}
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{{Quote|Now, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little duelling club, to train you all in case you ever need to defend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions - for full details, see my published works. |Gilderoy Lockhart, presenting the Duelling Club.}}
[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_11.jpg|thumb|Petrified Nearly-Headless Nick]]
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[[File:DuelingClub.jpg|thumb|left|Duelling Club]]
After Harry heads to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom the next morning and explains the details he learned from Dobby, Hermione comes up with a plan of Harry and Ron providing a distraction in Potions so she can steal the remaining ingredients for the Polyjuice Potion from Snape's private stores. Shortly afterwards, when McGongall comes around with the sign-up list for the students who will remain in the school during [[Christmas]], learning that [[Draco Malfoy|Malfoy]], [[Vincent Crabbe|Crabbe]], and [[Gregory Goyle|Goyle]] have signed up, Harry, Ron, and Hermione do this as well, since this gives them the perfect opportunity to use their Polyjuice Potion. With Harry providing a distraction during Potions class by throwing a [[Filibuster]] firework into Goyle's cauldron, it creates the necessary disturbance allowing Hermione to succeed without trouble, though Snape still suspects Harry's involvement with this incident after finding the firework.
After Harry heads to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom the next morning and explains the details he learned from Dobby, Hermione comes up with a plan of Harry and Ron providing a distraction in Potions so she can steal the remaining ingredients for the Polyjuice Potion from Snape's private stores. Shortly afterwards, when McGongall comes around with the sign-up list for the students who will remain in the school during [[Christmas]], learning that [[Draco Malfoy|Malfoy]], [[Vincent Crabbe|Crabbe]], and [[Gregory Goyle|Goyle]] have signed up, Harry, Ron, and Hermione do this as well, since this gives them the perfect opportunity to use their Polyjuice Potion. With Harry providing a distraction during Potions class by throwing a [[Filibuster]] firework into Goyle's cauldron, it creates the necessary disturbance allowing Hermione to succeed without trouble, though Snape still suspects Harry's involvement with this incident after finding the firework.
Harry later signs up for a [[Duelling Club]] which, to Harry's great displeasure, is taught by his two least favourite teachers, Lockhart and Snape. During a practise battle in the first meeting, [[Draco Malfoy]] conjures a snake to attack Harry. Lockhart tries to banish it, but all he manages is to set it loose on the students. Harry sees that the snake is advancing on a [[Hufflepuff]] student named [[Justin Finch-Fletchley]] and instinctively tells it to stop, which-to Harry's great surprise-it does. He expects Justin to be grateful Justin and the others are less than ecstatic about it. All they saw was Harry speaking [[Parseltongue]], the language of snakes, and since they cannot understand it, it seemed to them that he was egging the snake on.
Harry later signs up for a [[Duelling Club]] which, to Harry's great displeasure, is taught by his two least favourite teachers, Lockhart and Snape. During a practise battle in the first meeting, [[Draco Malfoy]] conjures a snake to attack Harry. Lockhart tries to banish it, but all he manages is to set it loose on the students. Harry sees that the snake is advancing on a [[Hufflepuff]] student named [[Justin Finch-Fletchley]] and instinctively tells it to stop, which-to Harry's great surprise-it does. He expects Justin to be grateful Justin and the others are less than ecstatic about it. All they saw was Harry speaking [[Parseltongue]], the language of snakes, and since they cannot understand it, it seemed to them that he was egging the snake on.
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[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_11.jpg|thumb|Petrified Nearly-Headless Nick]]
Harry learns that [[Parseltongue]] is a very rare gift that is closely associated with [[Salazar Slytherin]]. Due to this, Harry becomes the number one suspect among students for being the heir of [[Slytherin]]. Hermione even tells him that since [[Salazar Slytherin]] lived so long ago, he might actually be a descendant. When a Herbology lesson is cancelled, Harry has a talk with Hagrid, who reveals that the school's roosters are being mysteriously killed. Seconds after leaving Hagrid, Harry runs into a petrified [[Justin Finch-Fletchley]] and a black, also petrified, Nearly-Headless Nick. [[Peeves]] alerts the whole school, and a [[Hufflepuff]] student called [[Ernest Macmillan|Ernie Macmillan]] claims that Harry has been caught red-handed.
Harry learns that [[Parseltongue]] is a very rare gift that is closely associated with [[Salazar Slytherin]]. Due to this, Harry becomes the number one suspect among students for being the heir of [[Slytherin]]. Hermione even tells him that since [[Salazar Slytherin]] lived so long ago, he might actually be a descendant. When a Herbology lesson is cancelled, Harry has a talk with Hagrid, who reveals that the school's roosters are being mysteriously killed. Seconds after leaving Hagrid, Harry runs into a petrified [[Justin Finch-Fletchley]] and a black, also petrified, Nearly-Headless Nick. [[Peeves]] alerts the whole school, and a [[Hufflepuff]] student called [[Ernest Macmillan|Ernie Macmillan]] claims that Harry has been caught red-handed.
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{{Quote|Ron gave a loud snort. Evidently, hatching Aragog out in a cupboard wasn't his idea of being innocent.|Ron, about Hagrid having an Acromantula.}}
{{Quote|Ron gave a loud snort. Evidently, hatching Aragog out in a cupboard wasn't his idea of being innocent.|Ron, about Hagrid having an Acromantula.}}
[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_15.jpg|thumb|Aragog's home.]]Harry and Ron decide to follow the spiders as per Hagrid's advice after Harry notices the spiders during a Herbology lesson. Walking with [[Fang]] as their guide along the trails of the spiders, which are strangely all fleeing Hogwarts, takes them into the [[Forbidden Forest]]. Even though Ron is deeply arachnophobic, the fact that Hermione has been petrified and that they may be able to help through this investigation gives him the willpower to go along anyway. There, they encounter [[Arthur Weasley]]'s car, which had apparently taken to driving through the forest like some sort of wild animal. They eventually meet [[Aragog]], an ageing [[Acromantula]] which had been one of Hagrid's pets. [[Aragog]] explains that Hagrid is innocent and that the monster who killed the girl 50 years ago was something that all spiders fear, even the giant ones (the reason why every single spider was fleeing Hogwarts). Harry and Ron go to leave, but Aragog halts them, deciding to leave them as dinner for his children. Mr Weasley's Ford Anglia comes blasting through the layers of spiders, however, and enables the boys and Fang escape. Ron is furious that Hagrid endangered their lives until Harry explained his logic.
[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_15.jpg|thumb|Aragog's home.]]Harry and Ron decide to follow the spiders as per Hagrid's advice after Harry notices the spiders during a Herbology lesson. Walking with [[Fang]] as their guide along the trails of the spiders, which are strangely all fleeing Hogwarts, takes them into the [[Forbidden Forest]]. Even though Ron is deeply arachnophobic, the fact that Hermione has been petrified and that they may be able to help through this investigation gives him the willpower to go along anyway. There, they encounter [[Arthur Weasley]]'s car, which had apparently taken to driving through the forest like some sort of wild animal. They eventually meet [[Aragog]], an ageing [[Acromantula]] which had been one of Hagrid's pets. [[Aragog]] explains that Hagrid is innocent and that the monster who killed the girl 50 years ago was something that all spiders fear, even the giant ones (the reason why every single spider was fleeing Hogwarts). Harry and Ron go to leave, but Aragog halts them, deciding to leave them as dinner for his children. Mr Weasley's Ford Anglia comes blasting through the layers of spiders, however, and enables the boys and Fang escape. Ron is furious that Hagrid endangered their lives until Harry explained his logic.
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[[File:Aragog.jpg|thumb|left|The spiders attacking Harry and Ron]]
After this, Harry and Ron feel that they have reached dead ends everywhere, until one possible last hope occurs to them. [[Aragog]] said that the body of the dead girl was found in a bathroom, and Harry deduces that [[Myrtle Warren|Moaning Myrtle]] might have been that victim. Of course, with the school under such security, it will be almost impossible to sneak in the girls' bathroom near where the first attack occurred.
After this, Harry and Ron feel that they have reached dead ends everywhere, until one possible last hope occurs to them. [[Aragog]] said that the body of the dead girl was found in a bathroom, and Harry deduces that [[Myrtle Warren|Moaning Myrtle]] might have been that victim. Of course, with the school under such security, it will be almost impossible to sneak in the girls' bathroom near where the first attack occurred.
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===Chapter 17: The [[Tom Riddle|Heir of Slytherin]]===
===Chapter 17: The [[Tom Riddle|Heir of Slytherin]]===
[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_17.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Riddle's diary]]
[[File:Books_chapterart_cos_17.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Riddle's diary]]
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{{Quote|Haven't I already told you that killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore? For many months now, my new target has been you.|Tom Riddle to Harry.}}Harry finds himself standing at the end of a long, dimly lit chamber
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{{Quote|Haven't I already told you that killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore? For many months now, my new target has been you.|Tom Riddle to Harry.}}Harry finds himself standing at the end of a long, dimly lit chamber
. At the far end, he finds Ginny lying on the ground, pale and cold. He drops his [[wand]] and runs to her, trying to get a response from her, but to no avail. He then sees [[Tom Riddle]] approaching him and holding [[Harry Potter's wand|Harry's wand]]. Riddle explains that his presence in the present is due to the fact that he is a memory, which had been preserved in his own diary for fifty years.
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[[File:Harry In Chamber.jpg|thumb|[[Harry Potter|Harry]] entering the [[Chamber of Secrets]].]] At the far end, he finds Ginny lying on the ground, pale and cold. He drops his [[wand]] and runs to her, trying to get a response from her, but to no avail. He then sees [[Tom Riddle]] approaching him and holding [[Harry Potter's wand|Harry's wand]]. Riddle explains that his presence in the present is due to the fact that he is a memory, which had been preserved in his own diary for fifty years.
He then reveals what has happened: Riddle is the one that had opened the [[Chamber of Secrets]] fifty years ago and planned to purge the school of [[Muggle-born]]s; however, when he learned that the school was going to close down due to the attacks and that Dumbledore (then the [[Transfiguration]] teacher) was keeping a closer watch on him, he had no choice but to cease the attacks and frame Hagrid for doing it. He eventually left behind a diary containing the memory of his sixteen-year-old self in hopes that it would, one day, fall into the hands of an unsuspecting victim who would help him finish his work.
He then reveals what has happened: Riddle is the one that had opened the [[Chamber of Secrets]] fifty years ago and planned to purge the school of [[Muggle-born]]s; however, when he learned that the school was going to close down due to the attacks and that Dumbledore (then the [[Transfiguration]] teacher) was keeping a closer watch on him, he had no choice but to cease the attacks and frame Hagrid for doing it. He eventually left behind a diary containing the memory of his sixteen-year-old self in hopes that it would, one day, fall into the hands of an unsuspecting victim who would help him finish his work.
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I AM LORD VOLDEMORT
I AM LORD VOLDEMORT
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Needless to say, this means that Tom Marvolo Riddle is in fact [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s real name. He then reveals he is, in fact, a [[half-blood]], and his mother had named him Tom after his Muggle father and Marvolo after his [[Wizardkind|wizard]] grandfather, a descendant of [[Salazar Slytherin]]. He scrambled his name to create a new one, which he knew people would fear when he became the greatest sorcerer in the world.
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Needless to say, this means that Tom Marvolo Riddle is in fact [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s real name. He then reveals he is, in fact, a [[half-blood]], and his mother had named him Tom after his Muggle father and Marvolo after his [[Wizardkind|wizard]] grandfather, a descendant of [[Salazar Slytherin]]. He scrambled his name to create a new one, which he knew people would fear when he became the greatest sorcerer in the world
. [[Harry Potter|Harry retorts]] that he must be mistaken, because the greatest sorcerer in the world, as everybody knows, is [[Albus Dumbledore]]. Even when Voldemort was at the peak of his power he was afraid of Dumbledore, and now he is barely alive. Riddle replies that Dumbledore has been driven out the castle by the mere memory of him. Harry yells that Dumbledore is not as gone as Riddle seems to believe. In this display of loyalty he summons [[Fawkes]] the [[phoenix]] to him, who also brings with it the [[Sorting Hat]], both assets that Riddle deems extremely useless
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[[File:Fawkes2.JPG|thumb|left|[[Fawkes]]' tears healing Harry]]
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[[Harry Potter|Harry retorts]] that he must be mistaken, because the greatest sorcerer in the world, as everybody knows, is [[Albus Dumbledore]]. Even when Voldemort was at the peak of his power he was afraid of Dumbledore, and now he is barely alive. Riddle replies that Dumbledore has been driven out the castle by the mere memory of him. Harry yells that Dumbledore is not as gone as Riddle seems to believe. In this display of loyalty he summons [[Fawkes]] the [[phoenix]] to him, who also brings with it the [[Sorting Hat]], both assets that Riddle deems extremely useless.
Riddle then summons the [[Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk|Basilisk]] and commands it to kill Harry. However, [[Fawkes]] isn't as defenceless as one might initially think, and pecks out the Basilisk's eyes, thus preventing its gaze from killing. The basilisk can still hear and smell Harry, however, and remains very dangerous, so Harry, in desperation, puts on the [[Sorting Hat]], wishing against hope for help. Instead of an answer, Harry Potter has a heavy sword with a hilt embedded with rubies fall on his head from inside the hat. After several missed strikes from the blinded Basilisk, it strikes again, right at him this time but Harry plunges the sword into the roof of the Basilisk's mouth, killing it. However, one of its poisonous fangs sinks into his arm, injecting a deadly poison. While Riddle gloats over his "win", Harry takes Riddle's diary and plunges the Basilisk fang into the diary. Ink begins pouring out of the book the memory of Riddle is destroyed. Ginny immediately stirs and wakes up. Harry is now moments from death, when [[Fawkes]] cries on the wound, and since [[phoenix tears]] have incredible healing properties, Harry is instantly cured.
Riddle then summons the [[Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk|Basilisk]] and commands it to kill Harry. However, [[Fawkes]] isn't as defenceless as one might initially think, and pecks out the Basilisk's eyes, thus preventing its gaze from killing. The basilisk can still hear and smell Harry, however, and remains very dangerous, so Harry, in desperation, puts on the [[Sorting Hat]], wishing against hope for help. Instead of an answer, Harry Potter has a heavy sword with a hilt embedded with rubies fall on his head from inside the hat. After several missed strikes from the blinded Basilisk, it strikes again, right at him this time but Harry plunges the sword into the roof of the Basilisk's mouth, killing it. However, one of its poisonous fangs sinks into his arm, injecting a deadly poison. While Riddle gloats over his "win", Harry takes Riddle's diary and plunges the Basilisk fang into the diary. Ink begins pouring out of the book the memory of Riddle is destroyed. Ginny immediately stirs and wakes up. Harry is now moments from death, when [[Fawkes]] cries on the wound, and since [[phoenix tears]] have incredible healing properties, Harry is instantly cured.