Harry's Second Year
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_ It's summer, and Harry Potter is once again living with the cruel Dursley family. Though his circumstances have improved since the previous year, Harry longs to return to Hogwarts, the school he attends to learn the art of sorcery. He also longs for contact from his new best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, though as he hasn't received a letter from either of them for the entirety of the summer holidays.
The novel begins on Harry's twelfth birthday. Like all his previous birthdays, the Dursleys do not acknowledge it in the least. Instead, they are preparing for an important business dinner, for which Harry is expected to stay quietly in his room. Those plans are thwarted by the arrival of a house elf named Dobby, who insists that Harry mustn’t return to Hogwarts. Dobby mistakenly reveals that he had been intercepting Harry's post. In a final effort to force Harry to never return to Hogwarts, Dobby interrupts the dinner by destroying the dessert, and framing Harry. The dinner ruined and the Dursleys enraged, Harry receives a letter by owl that informs him that he has violated the law against underage magic. The Dursleys lock him in his room and put bars over his window.
After being locked in his room for days, Harry wakes from a nightmare to see a most peculiar sight outside his window—his best friend, Ron Weasley, who had come to rescue Harry with his elder twin brothers Fred and George in the family's flying car. They pulls the bars from Harry's window and fly back to the Weasley homestead, the Burrow.
At the Burrow, Harry experiences the daily life of a magical family for the first time. He visits Diagon Alley to purchase school supplies. There, he encounters Lucius Malfoy and his son Draco, a long-time rival of Harry's, as well as Gilderoy Lockhart, who will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor at Hogwarts.
Harry departs for another year at Hogwarts. However, Harry and Ron are unable to pass through the barrier hiding Platform 9¾, where the Hogwarts Express awaits. They take the family's flying car to Hogwarts, and crash land in the Whomping Willow, a violent magical tree on Hogwarts' grounds. Ron's wand is broken, the Weasley family car escapes into the Forbidden Forest, and Ron and Harry narrowly avoid expulsion.
On Halloween night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione forgo the Hogwarts feast to attend the 500th Deathday party of Gryffindor house ghost Nearly Headless Nick. On their return, Harry hears a disembodied voice and follows it. They stumble upon a scene in a corridor—Caretaker Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, has been petrified, and a threatening message has been written on the wall in blood.
The petrification of Mrs. Norris sets the school on edge. Students and teachers alike begin to fear that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened. While Harry is in the hospital with a Quidditch injury, he's again visited by Dobby the house elf, who reveals his role in Harry's recent difficulties. Harry also sees the body of another petrified student being brought into the hospital wing.
Harry joins the dueling club, headed by his two least favorite professors, Snape and Lockhart. He is forced to face Malfoy, who conjures a snake. Harry discovers that he is a Parselmouth, someone who can speak to snakes. Rumors start to circulate that Harry is the heir of Slytherin, and the one responsible for the attacks on muggleborns.
Harry stumbles across the petrified bodies of Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick. He is called into Headmaster Albus Dumbledore's office, where Dumbledore asks Harry is there's anything he would like to discuss. Harry tells him no, despite thinking of the disembodied voice he's been hearing.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, begin to brew Polyjuice potion, which will allow them to take on the physical form of Malfoy's cronies Crabbe and Goyle and interrogate Malfoy for information about Slytherin's heir. On Christmas, they put their plan into action, and a disguised Harry and Ron speak to Malfoy, but learn only that he is not the heir of Slytherin.
In February, Harry finds a diary. He writes in the diary, and a young man named Tom Riddle responds by writing back. He reveals that he had attended Hogwarts fifty years ago, when the Chamber of Secrets had last been opened and a girl had died as a result. Riddle claims to have caught the heir of Slytherin, and takes Harry inside his memory to show him capturing third year Rubeus Hagrid, who was expelled and is now groundskeeper at Hogwarts and a great friend to Harry.
Hermione is petrified. The boys venture to Hagrid's hut to question him. Before they can begin, they are interrupted by the arrival of Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, and Lucius Malfoy. They hide under Harry's invisibility cloak and watch as Dumbledore is removed from his post and Hagrid is taken away to the Azkaban prison. Hagrid leaves them with a single piece of advice: Follow the spiders.
Several nights later, they do, and discover the monster that Hagrid had been raising as a child in the Forbidden Forest. The giant spider Aragog tells them of Hagrid and his own innocence, and also that the girl killed fifty years ago died in a bathroom. The spiders attack Harry and Ron, but they are saved by the Weasley family's flying car.
They deduce that the girl killed fifty years ago must be Moaning Myrtle, a ghost that haunts the girls bathroom. Furthermore, on a visit to Hermione in the hospital wing, they discover a paper clasped in her hand. The paper describes a monster, the basilisk, and Hermione has made a single note: Pipes. They figure that the monster inside is a Basilisk—a giant snake—and that it's been moving throughout Hogwarts using the pipes and was responsible for the voice that only Harry, a Parselmouth, could hear.
Ginny Weasley is taken into the Chamber. They find Lockhart, who was fleeing after being tasked with rescuing Ginny, and force him to come along. Harry, Ron, and Lockhart slide down the passage in Myrtle's bathroom into the Chamber. Lockhart steals Ron's broken wand and attempts to attack them, but the spell backfires, leaving Harry separated from Ron and Lockhart.
Harry continues, finding Ginny and Tom Riddle, who reveals himself to be the young Lord Voldemort. He controlled Ginny through his diary, eventually forcing her to come to the Chamber. Harry, with the help of Fawkes and the Sword of Gryffindor, defeats the giant basilisk that Riddle summons. He then stabs the diary with a basilisk fang, destroying the young soul of Voldemort.
The threat defeated, Dumbledore is reinstated at Headmaster, Hagrid is freed, those petrified are restored, and Harry frees Dobby from his cruel master Lucius Malfoy who, all those months ago at Diagon Alley, slipped the diary into young Ginny Weasley's cauldron.
The novel begins on Harry's twelfth birthday. Like all his previous birthdays, the Dursleys do not acknowledge it in the least. Instead, they are preparing for an important business dinner, for which Harry is expected to stay quietly in his room. Those plans are thwarted by the arrival of a house elf named Dobby, who insists that Harry mustn’t return to Hogwarts. Dobby mistakenly reveals that he had been intercepting Harry's post. In a final effort to force Harry to never return to Hogwarts, Dobby interrupts the dinner by destroying the dessert, and framing Harry. The dinner ruined and the Dursleys enraged, Harry receives a letter by owl that informs him that he has violated the law against underage magic. The Dursleys lock him in his room and put bars over his window.
After being locked in his room for days, Harry wakes from a nightmare to see a most peculiar sight outside his window—his best friend, Ron Weasley, who had come to rescue Harry with his elder twin brothers Fred and George in the family's flying car. They pulls the bars from Harry's window and fly back to the Weasley homestead, the Burrow.
At the Burrow, Harry experiences the daily life of a magical family for the first time. He visits Diagon Alley to purchase school supplies. There, he encounters Lucius Malfoy and his son Draco, a long-time rival of Harry's, as well as Gilderoy Lockhart, who will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor at Hogwarts.
Harry departs for another year at Hogwarts. However, Harry and Ron are unable to pass through the barrier hiding Platform 9¾, where the Hogwarts Express awaits. They take the family's flying car to Hogwarts, and crash land in the Whomping Willow, a violent magical tree on Hogwarts' grounds. Ron's wand is broken, the Weasley family car escapes into the Forbidden Forest, and Ron and Harry narrowly avoid expulsion.
On Halloween night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione forgo the Hogwarts feast to attend the 500th Deathday party of Gryffindor house ghost Nearly Headless Nick. On their return, Harry hears a disembodied voice and follows it. They stumble upon a scene in a corridor—Caretaker Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, has been petrified, and a threatening message has been written on the wall in blood.
The petrification of Mrs. Norris sets the school on edge. Students and teachers alike begin to fear that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened. While Harry is in the hospital with a Quidditch injury, he's again visited by Dobby the house elf, who reveals his role in Harry's recent difficulties. Harry also sees the body of another petrified student being brought into the hospital wing.
Harry joins the dueling club, headed by his two least favorite professors, Snape and Lockhart. He is forced to face Malfoy, who conjures a snake. Harry discovers that he is a Parselmouth, someone who can speak to snakes. Rumors start to circulate that Harry is the heir of Slytherin, and the one responsible for the attacks on muggleborns.
Harry stumbles across the petrified bodies of Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick. He is called into Headmaster Albus Dumbledore's office, where Dumbledore asks Harry is there's anything he would like to discuss. Harry tells him no, despite thinking of the disembodied voice he's been hearing.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, begin to brew Polyjuice potion, which will allow them to take on the physical form of Malfoy's cronies Crabbe and Goyle and interrogate Malfoy for information about Slytherin's heir. On Christmas, they put their plan into action, and a disguised Harry and Ron speak to Malfoy, but learn only that he is not the heir of Slytherin.
In February, Harry finds a diary. He writes in the diary, and a young man named Tom Riddle responds by writing back. He reveals that he had attended Hogwarts fifty years ago, when the Chamber of Secrets had last been opened and a girl had died as a result. Riddle claims to have caught the heir of Slytherin, and takes Harry inside his memory to show him capturing third year Rubeus Hagrid, who was expelled and is now groundskeeper at Hogwarts and a great friend to Harry.
Hermione is petrified. The boys venture to Hagrid's hut to question him. Before they can begin, they are interrupted by the arrival of Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, and Lucius Malfoy. They hide under Harry's invisibility cloak and watch as Dumbledore is removed from his post and Hagrid is taken away to the Azkaban prison. Hagrid leaves them with a single piece of advice: Follow the spiders.
Several nights later, they do, and discover the monster that Hagrid had been raising as a child in the Forbidden Forest. The giant spider Aragog tells them of Hagrid and his own innocence, and also that the girl killed fifty years ago died in a bathroom. The spiders attack Harry and Ron, but they are saved by the Weasley family's flying car.
They deduce that the girl killed fifty years ago must be Moaning Myrtle, a ghost that haunts the girls bathroom. Furthermore, on a visit to Hermione in the hospital wing, they discover a paper clasped in her hand. The paper describes a monster, the basilisk, and Hermione has made a single note: Pipes. They figure that the monster inside is a Basilisk—a giant snake—and that it's been moving throughout Hogwarts using the pipes and was responsible for the voice that only Harry, a Parselmouth, could hear.
Ginny Weasley is taken into the Chamber. They find Lockhart, who was fleeing after being tasked with rescuing Ginny, and force him to come along. Harry, Ron, and Lockhart slide down the passage in Myrtle's bathroom into the Chamber. Lockhart steals Ron's broken wand and attempts to attack them, but the spell backfires, leaving Harry separated from Ron and Lockhart.
Harry continues, finding Ginny and Tom Riddle, who reveals himself to be the young Lord Voldemort. He controlled Ginny through his diary, eventually forcing her to come to the Chamber. Harry, with the help of Fawkes and the Sword of Gryffindor, defeats the giant basilisk that Riddle summons. He then stabs the diary with a basilisk fang, destroying the young soul of Voldemort.
The threat defeated, Dumbledore is reinstated at Headmaster, Hagrid is freed, those petrified are restored, and Harry frees Dobby from his cruel master Lucius Malfoy who, all those months ago at Diagon Alley, slipped the diary into young Ginny Weasley's cauldron.
Harry's Third Year
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Harry is back with
the Dursleys after his second year at Hogwarts. His birthday is once
again overshadowed, this time due to the arrival of Vernon's sister,
Marge. The visit is filled with tension due to Marge's attitude
against Harry, but he manages to keep his promise until the final
night of her visit. She insults his parents, and he loses his temper,
accidentally inflating her like a balloon.
Knowing that he will likely be expelled from Hogwarts due to using magic, Harry collects his belongings and flees the Dursley home. Harry sees a large, frightening black dog and is nearly run over by the Knight Bus, a triple decker magical bus that services stranded witches and wizards. He has the bus take him to the Leaky Cauldron in London. During the ride, he sees an image of a man in the Daily Prophet—escaped convict Sirius Black.
Harry arrives at the Leaky Cauldron and meets the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who assuages Harry's fears of Expulsion. Harry spends the next few weeks staying in the Leaky Cauldron and exploring Diagon Alley. Near the start of term, Harry meets up with his best friends Ron and Hermione, and the rest of the Weasley family. Hermione and Ron argue about Hermione's recent purchase of a cat, Crookshanks, who is aggressive towards Ron's rat, Scabbers.
The night before their departure to Hogwarts, Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley talking about Sirius Black, and learns that it is he who Black is after. Before getting on the Hogwarts Express, Mr. Weasley pulls Harry aside and tells Harry not to go looking for Black. On the train, the trio share a compartment with a sleeping professor R. J. Lupin. The train is stopped by Dementors and Harry faints, hearing the screams of his mother from the night Voldemort killed his parents.
He awakens and they arrive at Hogwarts, where it is announced that the school will be guarded by Dementors until Sirius Black is recaptured. In Harry's first Care of Magical Creatures class, Draco Malfoy is wounded by a hippogriff named Buckbeak. Harry is forced to remain at Hogwarts during the first Hogsmeade trip of the school year because he lacks a permission form. That night Sirius Black attempts the break into the Gryffindor tower, ripping the portrait of the Fat Lady who guards the entrance. Students sleep in the Great Hall for the night while staff unsuccessfully search for Black.
During a Quidditch match, Dementors storm the field and Harry faints, falling from his broomstick. His broomstick is destroyed and he decides to take special lessons with professor Lupin to learn to defend against Dementors.
Another Hogsmeade trip occurs, and Harry is once again left behind. However, Fred and George find him and present him with The Marauder's Map, a magically enchanted map that not only shows the Hogwarts grounds, but people on it. Harry used the map to find a secret passage to Hogsmeade. Wearing his invisibility cloak, Harry meets up with Ron and Hermione. Harry overhears several people discussing Sirius Black and learns that Black was the best friend of Harry's father at school and is Harry's godfather, and it was he who betrayed the Potter's to Voldemort and murdered a man named Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles.
That Christmas, Hagrid receives a notice saying that Buckbeak is being put on trial for harming Malfoy, and Harry gets an anonymous present: A Firebolt, the best broomstick on the market. Hermione reports it to professor McGonagall, fearing that the sender may have been Sirius Black. This causes a great deal of tension between Hermione and Ron, and the boys are very cold to her. Harry begins his training with professor Lupin. Shortly before Harry's next Quidditch game, the Firebolt, having been examined, is returned to Harry. Ron discovers bloody sheets in his dorm and assumes that Scabbers has been eaten by Crookshanks, and is further angry with Hermione.
Harry and Ron visit Hagrid, who reveals that Hermione has been helping him prepare for Buckbeak's trial, and scolds Harry and Ron for their coldness to her. Harry has the Marauder's Map confiscated upon his return from the last Hogsmeade trip. Hermione tells Harry that an execution date has been set for Buckbeak, and the trio reconcile in their efforts to save Buckbeak.
After Harry's end of year exam in Divination, Professor Trelawney goes into a trance and predicts that Voldemort's servant shall return before midnight. Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Hagrid with intent of comforting him during Buckbeak's execution. They find Scabbers in Hagrid's hut, and leave before the execution. As they are leaving, a large black dog appears and drags Ron under the Whomping Willow. Harry, Hermione, and, oddly, Crookshanks, who pushes a knot on the tree that stops its flailing branches, follow.
They find a secret passageway that leads to the Shrieking Shack, and in it they find Ron and, instead of a large black dog, Sirius Black. They Black, but Lupin arrives and disarms them. Lupin explains that he is a werewolf and that while at Hogwarts, his three best friends James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew became Animagi to join him on full moons. Black was able to survive and escape Azkaban by transforming into his dog form. Snape arrives, but Harry and Hermione disarm him and knock him unconscious.
They take Ron's rat and reveal that he was really Peter Pettigrew, and that is was Pettigrew, not Black, that betrayed Harry's parents and murdered twelve muggles, faking his own death and framing Black. Harry stops Black and Lupin from killing Pettigrew and they exit the tree, returning to Hogwarts. Black offers to let Harry come live with him once his name is cleared, and Harry accepts almost instantly, delighted with the possibility of leaving the Dursleys behind forever. The full moon rises and Lupin transforms. Black holds him off and Lupin goes running into the Forbidden Forest. Pettigrew escapes and Black is surrounded by Dementors. Harry tries to save him, and passes out, seeing in the distance what he thinks is his father casting a Patronus.
Harry awakens in the hospital wing. Black has been captured and is awaiting the Dementor's Kiss. Dumbledore arrives and suggest that the two use Hermione's time-turner, which she had been using all year to attend extra classes, to go back in time and save Black and Buckbeak. They go three hours into the past and save Buckbeak from his execution, and Harry realizes that it was him, not his father, who he saw casting a Patronus, and saves his past self and Black from the Dementors. They fly Buckbeak to where Black is imprisoned and rescue him before returning to the hospital wing, just as their past selves disappear.
The next day, Harry is disappointed to learn that Lupin is resigning because his nature as a werewolf has been made public by Snape. On the train home, Harry receives a letter from Black, who tells Harry that he's safe and was the sender of the Firebolt. He also includes a signed Hogsmeade permission form for Harry. Harry returns to the Dursleys happier, gleefully informing them of his godfather the convicted murderer.
Knowing that he will likely be expelled from Hogwarts due to using magic, Harry collects his belongings and flees the Dursley home. Harry sees a large, frightening black dog and is nearly run over by the Knight Bus, a triple decker magical bus that services stranded witches and wizards. He has the bus take him to the Leaky Cauldron in London. During the ride, he sees an image of a man in the Daily Prophet—escaped convict Sirius Black.
Harry arrives at the Leaky Cauldron and meets the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who assuages Harry's fears of Expulsion. Harry spends the next few weeks staying in the Leaky Cauldron and exploring Diagon Alley. Near the start of term, Harry meets up with his best friends Ron and Hermione, and the rest of the Weasley family. Hermione and Ron argue about Hermione's recent purchase of a cat, Crookshanks, who is aggressive towards Ron's rat, Scabbers.
The night before their departure to Hogwarts, Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley talking about Sirius Black, and learns that it is he who Black is after. Before getting on the Hogwarts Express, Mr. Weasley pulls Harry aside and tells Harry not to go looking for Black. On the train, the trio share a compartment with a sleeping professor R. J. Lupin. The train is stopped by Dementors and Harry faints, hearing the screams of his mother from the night Voldemort killed his parents.
He awakens and they arrive at Hogwarts, where it is announced that the school will be guarded by Dementors until Sirius Black is recaptured. In Harry's first Care of Magical Creatures class, Draco Malfoy is wounded by a hippogriff named Buckbeak. Harry is forced to remain at Hogwarts during the first Hogsmeade trip of the school year because he lacks a permission form. That night Sirius Black attempts the break into the Gryffindor tower, ripping the portrait of the Fat Lady who guards the entrance. Students sleep in the Great Hall for the night while staff unsuccessfully search for Black.
During a Quidditch match, Dementors storm the field and Harry faints, falling from his broomstick. His broomstick is destroyed and he decides to take special lessons with professor Lupin to learn to defend against Dementors.
Another Hogsmeade trip occurs, and Harry is once again left behind. However, Fred and George find him and present him with The Marauder's Map, a magically enchanted map that not only shows the Hogwarts grounds, but people on it. Harry used the map to find a secret passage to Hogsmeade. Wearing his invisibility cloak, Harry meets up with Ron and Hermione. Harry overhears several people discussing Sirius Black and learns that Black was the best friend of Harry's father at school and is Harry's godfather, and it was he who betrayed the Potter's to Voldemort and murdered a man named Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles.
That Christmas, Hagrid receives a notice saying that Buckbeak is being put on trial for harming Malfoy, and Harry gets an anonymous present: A Firebolt, the best broomstick on the market. Hermione reports it to professor McGonagall, fearing that the sender may have been Sirius Black. This causes a great deal of tension between Hermione and Ron, and the boys are very cold to her. Harry begins his training with professor Lupin. Shortly before Harry's next Quidditch game, the Firebolt, having been examined, is returned to Harry. Ron discovers bloody sheets in his dorm and assumes that Scabbers has been eaten by Crookshanks, and is further angry with Hermione.
Harry and Ron visit Hagrid, who reveals that Hermione has been helping him prepare for Buckbeak's trial, and scolds Harry and Ron for their coldness to her. Harry has the Marauder's Map confiscated upon his return from the last Hogsmeade trip. Hermione tells Harry that an execution date has been set for Buckbeak, and the trio reconcile in their efforts to save Buckbeak.
After Harry's end of year exam in Divination, Professor Trelawney goes into a trance and predicts that Voldemort's servant shall return before midnight. Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Hagrid with intent of comforting him during Buckbeak's execution. They find Scabbers in Hagrid's hut, and leave before the execution. As they are leaving, a large black dog appears and drags Ron under the Whomping Willow. Harry, Hermione, and, oddly, Crookshanks, who pushes a knot on the tree that stops its flailing branches, follow.
They find a secret passageway that leads to the Shrieking Shack, and in it they find Ron and, instead of a large black dog, Sirius Black. They Black, but Lupin arrives and disarms them. Lupin explains that he is a werewolf and that while at Hogwarts, his three best friends James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew became Animagi to join him on full moons. Black was able to survive and escape Azkaban by transforming into his dog form. Snape arrives, but Harry and Hermione disarm him and knock him unconscious.
They take Ron's rat and reveal that he was really Peter Pettigrew, and that is was Pettigrew, not Black, that betrayed Harry's parents and murdered twelve muggles, faking his own death and framing Black. Harry stops Black and Lupin from killing Pettigrew and they exit the tree, returning to Hogwarts. Black offers to let Harry come live with him once his name is cleared, and Harry accepts almost instantly, delighted with the possibility of leaving the Dursleys behind forever. The full moon rises and Lupin transforms. Black holds him off and Lupin goes running into the Forbidden Forest. Pettigrew escapes and Black is surrounded by Dementors. Harry tries to save him, and passes out, seeing in the distance what he thinks is his father casting a Patronus.
Harry awakens in the hospital wing. Black has been captured and is awaiting the Dementor's Kiss. Dumbledore arrives and suggest that the two use Hermione's time-turner, which she had been using all year to attend extra classes, to go back in time and save Black and Buckbeak. They go three hours into the past and save Buckbeak from his execution, and Harry realizes that it was him, not his father, who he saw casting a Patronus, and saves his past self and Black from the Dementors. They fly Buckbeak to where Black is imprisoned and rescue him before returning to the hospital wing, just as their past selves disappear.
The next day, Harry is disappointed to learn that Lupin is resigning because his nature as a werewolf has been made public by Snape. On the train home, Harry receives a letter from Black, who tells Harry that he's safe and was the sender of the Firebolt. He also includes a signed Hogsmeade permission form for Harry. Harry returns to the Dursleys happier, gleefully informing them of his godfather the convicted murderer.
Sources:
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Print.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Print.
Images Copyright Warner Bros. Pictures, captured from DVD.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Print.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Scholastic, 1999. Print.
Images Copyright Warner Bros. Pictures, captured from DVD.