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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


After another long summer at the Dursleys, Harry Potter wanted to go back to Hogwarts. On his birthday, which nobody in the house remembered, a strange elf dressed in a pillowcase whose name was Dobby arrived with strange warnings for Harry: he didn’t have to return to Hogwarts!

When Harry refused to stay home from school, Dobby caused Harry a lot of troubles with the Dursleys, who locked Harry up in his room and refused to let him out.

In the middle of the night, he was awakened by Ron’s face at the window. It was – Ron and his twin brothers, Fred and George, who came in their dad’s old car to rescue Harry. Ron’s father had put a spell on it so it could fly through the air!

They used the car to pull the bars off the window and load Harry’s trunk into the vehicle. The boys took Harry to their family home, where he could spend the rest of the summer.

The family magically travelled from their home to Diagon Alley, where they could buy their school supplies. Harry entered Borgin & Burkes, a shop that sold Dark Arts supplies. He heard Lucius Malfoy selling some Dark Arts items from his house. Draco wanted his dad to buy him something, but Lucius planned to buy Draco only a racing broom. While buying his textbooks at Flourish & Blotts, he met his future Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He was Gilderoy Lockhart – vain, blond, grinning, wearing strange robes and author of numerous books on tracking monsters.

The second school year started. The students had new lessons, some new teachers and a lot of work to do. Harry started to hear a mysterious voice in the walls. As the school year progressed, this mysterious voice became more and more menacing, and soon bad attacks started happening to the students of Hogwarts: they were "petrified" in a coma-like state. Harry discovered that he could speak to snakes, and that he was the person who, according to legend, could open the mysterious “Chamber of Secrets” and release the monster inside.

There was a monster in the school. Harry had no idea who was attacking the students, and wanted to find out the responsible. He, Ron and Hermione decided to transform themselves into Slytherin students using a potion Hermione had created, the Polyjuice. So they could question Draco Malfoy, because they believed he was setting the monster loose in the school. They discovered that Draco was not the one they were looking for.  

Harry found a magic diary with some clues to identify the real author of the petrifyings. He discovered that if you wrote in it, the original keeper, Tom Riddle, could write back.

Then Hermione was attacked and petrified by the monster. Ron’s sister, Ginny, was kidnapped and taken down into the Chamber of Secrets, and Ron and Harry were helped by an important clue that Hermione had left for them. They went down into the Chamber of Secrets to rescue Ginny.

Harry and Ron left to find the Chamber of Secrets and kill the monster that liveds there. It was a basilisk, a giant snake whose gaze could permanently kill someone. Harry realized that was why he was hearing a voice in the walls – it was the snake traveling through the plumbing, talking about killing. He understood its words because he knew Parseltongue.

They first went to Lockhart for help in fighting the basilisk. He told them he couldn’t help them. They took him into the Hogwarts undergrounds to find the Chamber.

 

Harry and Ron got separated down there and Harry was left to pursue the monster on his own. Harry arrived in the Chamber. Ginny was lying on the ground, unconscious. An image of a teenage boy with black hair was also standing there by the girl. Harry recognized the boy as Tom Riddle but didn’t understand what he was. He was a projection from the diary, he explained. He told Harry he wanted to destroy him, and that Ginny opened the Chamber of Secrets and let the snake enter Hogwarts’ pipes and petrify people. 

 

Tom Riddle told Harry that he grew up to become Lord Voldemort. He opened a statue and the Basilisk came out. Then Fawkes the phoenix arrived! The bird was carrying the old Sorting Hat in his beak, went after the basilisk and blinded it with his beak. An old sword dropped out of the hat.

The Basilisk attacked Harry, who stabbed it in the mouth with the sword and killed it, but the snake left a poisonous tooth into his arm. Harry also fell on the floor.

The bird’s tears fell on him and healed him. Fawkes brought the diary to Harry. He took the basilisk’s tooth and stabbed it into the diary. A black ink just like blood came out of the diary. The Riddle projection screamed and disappeared.
 Ginny woke up. She understood that Voldemort had possessed her through the diary. Harry took her back to Ron.

Harry and Ron became heroes, and Harry was very happy when Hermione and the rest of the victims were healed and Gryffindor won a lot of House points.

Reading Comprehension exercise:

Questionnaire


 1. Who was Dobby?

 2. What did Dobby want from Harry?

 3. How was Harry rescued from his room?

 4. What did Harry hear from the school walls?

 5. What did Harry discover about himself?

 6. What did Harry and his friends do to discover the responsible of the troubles?

 7. What did they discover?

 8. What happened to Hermione?

 9. Who was Ginny and what happened to her?

 10. How did Harry and Ron enter the Chamber of Secrets?

 11. Who was Fawkes?

 12. What did the enchanted diary do?

 13. Who was the owner of the diary?

 14. How did Harry win over Voldemort?

 15. How did the film end?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter had green eyes, round eyeglasses and a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. He was a lonely boy. He had a hard life: his parents had died in a car crash when he was still a baby, and he lived with his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. They didn’t love him: they let him live in a very small room under the stairs, and treated him more like slave than like a family member.

His fat cousin Dudley, the Dursley's real son, bothered Harry all the time.

 

On his 11th birthday, a giant, Hagrid, informed Harry that he was really a wizard, and that he had to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry also learned that, in that world, he was a hero. Hagrid told him that when he was an infant, the evil Lord Voldemort killed his parents and then tried to kill Harry too, but Harry survived, and Voldemort’s powers were destroyed.

  

Harry started school in September. Professor and Assistant Headmistress Minerva McGonagall helped the students to be selected for the house in which they would spend their next seven years of study. In the Great Hall, Harry saw all the teachers, included Severus Snape, professor of Potions. The Headmaster Professor Dumbledore made a welcoming speech. Hogwarts had four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. The enchanted Sorting Hat selected the house into which each child would enter.

  Harry met a boy named Ron Weasley, and before Christmas someone let a very big troll into the school – and Harry and Ron were the ones who discovered it – in a girls' bathroom! Another student, Hermione, was trapped in there with him. She went there to cry after fighting with Ron. Using magic spells, they defeated the huge, stinky creature. After this incident, the three became great friends. At Christmas Harry and Ron remained at Hogwarts. Ron got a sweater and pies from Mrs. Weasley. Harry received a strange gift, the Invisibility Cloak, which completely hides the one who wears it.

  Harry and the other students quickly settled into school life: History of Magic with Professor Binns; Herbology with Professor Sprout; Astronomy with Professor Sinistra; Spells with Professor Flitwick in Charms. Binns was the school's only ghost professor: he died one day while sleeping in the staff room, woke up and didn't even know he was a spirit. The hardest class was with Snape in Potions. The Gryffindor first year students had to attend Snape's course with their Slytherin counterparts. Snape liberally took away house points from Gryffindors and repeatedly laughed at them while the Slytherins had fun too.

  
Harry always had a lot of lessons and homework, and he also practised Quidditch, a sport that combined elements of football, basketball and polo. It was played in the air, with all team members on broomsticks. There were seven players on each team. Three players called Chasers had to score in the three hoops at the end of each field. The Seeker had to look for the fastest ball, the winged Golden Snitch. Two Beaters protected the Chasers and Seeker from the attacking black balls called Bludgers. The Keeper was like a goalie, trying to keep the rival Chasers from scoring. Harry was the youngest Quidditch player in a century.

  During the school year, the three friends had to solve the mystery of the three-headed dog that was the guardian of something in a corridor of the school. They found out that a very valuable object, the Sorcerer’s Stone, was hidden in the school. When one of the professors started acting as if he was trying to steal it, they wanted to stop him.

They went past the terrible dog and down into the undergrounds of the school, to save the stone. Ron and Hermione helped Harry to get through the challenges set forth to stop the thief, but Harry had to go on alone to fight with the professor.

They arrived at a giant chessboard with life-sized pieces. Ron, an expert at wizard's chess, directed a game with the three of them taking the place of other pieces. Ron sacrificed himself to the violent opposing queen. Harry won the game. He and Hermione continued, but Hermione had to stop in the chamber of potions. Harry arrived into the room where the stone was hidden. He didn’t find Snape, but Professor Quirrell! The little prof was not totally what he seemed – the turban he was wearing concealed the real controller of his body: the weakened Voldemort.

Quirrell revealed that he was the one who let the mountain troll into the castle, tried to kill Harry in the Quidditch game, drank unicorn blood to sustain Voldemort, and tried to get the Sorcerer's Stone. Quirrell looked at a magic mirror to see if it revealed where the Sorcerer's Stone was. The stone, hidden in the mirror by Dumbledore, materialized in his pocket. Quirrell began to argue with an unseen person. This second voice wanted to talk to Harry. Quirrell took his turban away and turned around. Harry got a real shock when he saw Voldemort’s face in the back of Quirrell’s head!

 

The Dark Lord told Harry that without a physical body to live in, and unicorn blood to drink, he had no form. Harry had a battle with Voldemort and killed Quirrel.

He saved the Sorcerer’s Stone, but he was almost killed! The school headmaster, Dumbledore, arrived just in time to save Harry.

The school year ended spectacularly. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were honored for their service to the school, and Harry left to go back to the Dursleys for the summer.

Practice reading comprehension:

Questionnaire

1.      Who lived Harry potter with?

2.      How did his relatives behave with him?

3.      What happened on his 11^th birthday?

4.      Who was Hagrid?

5.      What was Hogwarts?

6.      What happened when Harry was an infant?

7.      Who were Harry’s first friends at Hogwarts?

8.      What was the cause of their friendship?

9.      What did the three-headed dog do?

10.  What was hidden in the school?

11.  What happened in the last chamber?

12.  Who saved Harry?

13.  How did the school year end?

14.  Describe Harry Potter physically and psychologically.

15.  Describe the school headmaster, Mr. Dumbledore.