Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

And of course Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Now let me just add that Sorcerer’s Stone is certainly least favorite of the bunch, seeing as it is the one that is the most simplistic of the series. Not that I dislike, it’s just that all of the others get increasingly better! Now rereading Chamber though made me quite happy. I love Tom Riddle. I’ll say it again, I love Tom Riddle. I think it’s very important that we get to see the young Voldemort, and a Voldemort that Harry even trusts for a few moments of his young life. I love that Tom has so many similarities to Harry, the dark-headed orphan youth who feels that Hogwarts is his only home, not to mention that they share powers due to adult Voldemort’s mishap. I remember reading the second book, of course before the movies had come out, and believing Tom just like Harry, and the dramatic reveal at the end that made me grin. Of course at the time it was also a little confusing. But thankfully, now that the series is done and I understand horcruxes, it all comes back together! I am proud of JK for figuring out her whole plot beforehand. Rereading it with the information I know now helps me see the things that she was building up all along. I applaud her for being so calculated in revealing the big issues and waiting til the end for it all to make sense. I did have to wonder a little bit about how Voldemort went about making the horcrux though. He says to Harry towards the end… “I killed the girl, Hagrid got expelled, I got a special award to the school, then I preserved my self in a diary.” So he wrote the diary quite a ways later from killing Myrtle. Since of course we know now to make a horcrux and split your soul you must kill someone, I suppose that must mean that you don’t have to have the horcux object immediately on hand when you kill someone. And that perhaps your soul is split and you can put it in the object at your own pace? That little piece of information had us talking when we finished the book then. Oh, and now I’m getting all Potter-nerd on this. Oh well. I’m not ashamed of dressing up in costumes to see the movies…on three separate occasions. Er well maybe a little bit. Or going to see the Harry and the Potters in concert four times…wait, five. Also in costume.

Yea.