Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
People and animals are petrified after someone opens the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Characters/Groups
Harry Potter - Daniel Radcliffe
Hermione Granger - Emma Watson
Uncle Vernon - Richard Griffiths
Dudley Dursley - Harry Melling
George Weasley - Oliver Phelps
Hagrid the Giant - Robbie Coltrane
Mrs Granger - Heather Bleasdale
Girl in Bookstore - Isabella Columbus
Gilderoy Lockhart - Kenneth Branagh
Short Man - Daily Prophet - Peter O'Farrell
Angus (Diagon Boy) - Ben Borowiecki
Neville Longbottom - Matthew Lewis
Seamus Finnegan - Devon Murray
Professor Snape - Alan Rickman
Albus Dumbledore - Richard Harris
Professor McGonagall - Maggie Smith
Professor Sprout - Miriam Margolyes
Penelope Clearwater - Gemma Padley
Nearly Headless Nick - John Cleese
Susan Bones - Eleanor Columbus
Oliver Wood - Sean Biggerstaff
Alicia Spinnet - Leilah Sutherland
Angelina Johnson - Danielle Taylor
Professor Flitwick - Warwick Davis
Girl with Flowers - Violet Columbus
Man - Moving Picture - Peter Taylor
Slyth Beater No 1 - David Holmes
Slyth Beater No 2 - David Massam
Slyth Beater No 3 - Tony Christian
Slyth Keeper - David Churchyard
Moaning Myrtle - Shirley Henderson
Justin Finch-Fletchley - Edward Randell
Hannah the Hufflepuff - Charlotte Skeoch
Boy in Study Hall 1 - Brendan Columbus
Boy in Study Hall 2 - Robert Ayres
Professor Dippet - Alfred Burke
The Sorting Hat - Leslie Phillips
Millicent Bulstrode - Helen Stuart
Brunette Lady - Moving Picture - Daisy Bates
Count - Moving Picture - David Tysall
Tom Riddle - Christian Coulson
Young Hagrid - Martin Bayfield
Cornelius Fudge - Robert Hardy
Character thumbnails with links to profiles
Detailed Synopsis
Harry Potter is sitting in his bedroom looking at a photo album with a photo of himself as a baby and his parents, Lilly Potter and James Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Hedwig starts to screech and Harry tells her he can't let her out of her cage. Uncle Vernon Dursley calls for Harry and when he walks downstairs, Aunt Petunia Dursley, who is finishing a cake, tells Harry, Uncle Vernon is in the living room. Uncle Vernon, who is fixing Dudley Dursley's tie, tells Harry he better control Hedwig. When Harry asks if he can let Hedwig out of his cage, Uncle Vernon tells him no, because he is worried Hedwig will send a message to Harry's friends. Harry then tells him none of friends have written to him all summer. Uncle Vernon warns Harry not to mess anything up when Mr Mason and Mrs Mason come to dinner. Harry walks back to his room and finds Dobby jumping on his bed. Dobby introduces himself and when Harry asks him to sit down, Dobby tells him he hasn't met many decent wizards that treated him as an equal and then punishes himself by hitting his head on Harry's furniture. Dobby warns Harry not to go back to Hogwarts due to a plot to make terrible things happen at the school. Dobby admits to Harry that he hid all of the mail his friends sent him and runs away from Harry downstairs. Dobby sees the cake Aunt Petunia made and uses magic to levitate it. Harry slowly follows the cake with his arms outstretched to try and grab it as it travels towards Mrs Mason. Dobby snaps his fingers and the cake falls on Mrs. Mason's head, covering her in cake. Uncle Vernon puts bars around Harry's windows and tells him he will never go back to Hogwarts or see his friends. Harry hears a noise, and Ron, Fred Weasley and George Weasley drive up to his window in their Ford Anglia. They pull the bars off Harry's window and Harry escapes with them just before Uncle Vernon grabs for him. As they are driving away, Ron tells Harry Happy Birthday. They land at the Dursley farm and sneak in. Mrs Weasley comes down stairs and yells at the Weasley boys. Ginny Weasley runs downstairs and stares wide eyed at Harry and then runs away. Mr Weasley walks in and tells everyone of the nine raids he conducted and then meets Harry. Mr Weasley is asking Harry questions about non magic users when Errol flies into the window with a piece of mail. Percy Weasley takes the letter which includes all of the children's Hogwarts letters, including Harry's. They travel to Diagon Alley using Floo Powder. During Harry's turn he mumbles the name Diagon Alley and appears in a shop in Knockturn Alley. He hides as Draco Malfoy and Lucius Malfoy enter the store and Lucius sells some of his things to Mr Borgin. Harry walks out of the store and is asked by Aged Witch if he is lost. He is surrounded by other witches and wizards and Aged Witch tells Harry to come with her. Hagrid sees Harry and saves him from the others and tells Harry he was looking for Flesh Eating Slug Repellent. Hermione runs up to Harry and Hagrid and greets them and fixes Harry's glasses. They go into Flourish and Blotts where Gilderoy Lockhart is selling copies of his book Magical Me and pass by Girl in Bookstore. Hermione goes to her parents Mr Granger and Mrs Granger. Short Man - Daily Prophet takes a photo of Lockhart and when Lockhart recognizes Harry, Short Man - Daily Prophet grabs Harry and shoves him towards Lockhart who has his photo taken by Harry. Lockhart then uses Harry to help sell his books. Draco and Lucius walk up to Harry and Lucius grabs Harry and uses the end of his cane to part Harry's hair to reveal his scar. Lucius tells Harry his scar is legendary as is the wizard who gave it to him and Harry calls Voldemort a murderer. When Lucius comments on Harry using Voldemort's name, Hermione mentions fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself. Lucius insults Hermione and her parents and Ron and his siblings and grabs Ginny's second hand book and calls Mr Weasley a disgrace to wizards and puts Ginny's book back, plus another into her cauldron pail. Diagon Alley Boy is staring into a store and comments on the new Nimbus 2001's. They go to the train station and teleport through platform 9 3/4, except Ron and Harry, who are last. They try to teleport, but find the bricks solid and crash into them. Station Guard walks over and asks them what they are doing and they apologize. They decide to use the Ford Anglia to fly to Hogwarts and Harry has to remind Ron to turn on the invisibility booster. They are almost run over by the Hogwarts Express and crash land at Hogwarts into the Whomping Willow after Ron breaks his wand trying to get the Ford Anglia to stop. They are thrown out of the Ford Anglia which then drives off. Harry tells Ron about Dobby and Mr Filch, who is holding Mrs Norris, stops them and tells them that might be there last night in the castle and tells them they are in trouble. They are brought to Professor Snape's office where Professor Snape tells them they were seen by seven people flying in the Ford Anglia and damaged the Whomping Willow. He threatens to kick them out and Albus Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall walk in and Professor McGonagall gives Harry and Ron detention. The next day, Professor Sprout walks into class and tells the students they are going to be re-potting Mandrakes. She warns them that the Mandrake seedlings can cause those who hear their cry to faint and tells the class to put on their ear muffs. Neville falls down and Professor Sprout thinks he neglected his earmuffs, but Seamus tells her, Neville just fainted. Penelope Clearwater is walking with Percy when they greet Nearly Headless Nick. Ron tapes his wand back together and Colin Creevey snaps a photo of Harry. There is a screeching and Dean Thomas tells Ron, Errol is coming. Errol delivers a Howler message to Ron from Mrs Weasley who yells at Ron through the Howler. In class, Lockhart introduces himself to the students as their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Hermione and Susan Bones swoon over him. He un-cages Cornish Pixies in class and they start to unleash havoc onto the class. He runs away after asking Hermione, Harry and Ron to capture the Pixies when the Pixies steal his wand. Hermione casts an Immobulus spell which causes Pixies to slowly float in the air. Oliver Wood tells the Gryffindor Quidditch team he devised a new program. As they walk into the practice green, Marcus Flint tells them they were given the practice time to train their new Seeker, Draco. Ron walks up with Hermione and asks how the Slytherin team got the Nimbus 2001's and Marcus tells him Lucius bought them for the team. Draco comments to Ron that his father can afford the best and Hermione accuses Draco of buying himself onto the team, to which Draco calls her a Mudblood. Ron tries to cast an Eat Slugs spell on Draco with his broken wand, which backfires, causing Ron to vomit up snails. Harry and Hermione take Ron to Hagrid's hut who asks why Ron tried to curse Draco. Hermione tells Hagrid, Draco called her Mudblood. For detention, Harry is forced to help sign Lockhart's fan mail. He thinks he hears a voice, which Lockhart doesn't hear. As Harry is walking back to the Gryffindor common room and he hears the voice again and runs into Hermione and Ron. They run to where the voice is coming from and see spiders running out of the castle. They then see blood splattered on the wall with the words "The chamber of Secrets has been opened enemies of the heir...beware". They find Mrs Norris hanging in the air and a group gathers around and Mr Filch threatens to kill Harry when he thinks it was him that hurt Mrs Norris. Dumbledore and the professors walk up and Dumbledore tells the students except for Harry, Ron and Hermione to return to their rooms. Professor Snape says it is suspicious how Harry was present at the time and Lockhart tells him, Harry was with him. Dumbledore then mentions Professor Sprout's Mandrakes and tells Mr Filch Mrs Norris will be fine. As they are walking to the common room, Harry wonders if he should tell Dumbledore about the voice he heard and Hermione tells him hearing voices isn't a good thing, Man - Moving Picture agrees with Hermione. Professor McGonagall teaches the class how to transform animals to water goblets, which Ron fails due to his broken wand. Hermione asks Professor McGonagall about the Chamber of Secrets and she tells them about the founding of Hogwarts and how Salazar Slytherin wanted magic to be taught only to pure blood magical families. He eventually built the Chamber of Secrets and sealed it until his future heir would come to reopen it to unleash the horror within that would then kill those born from muggles. Harry and Ron think Draco is heir of Slytherin, but Hermione doesn't think so. She tells them she might have a way to find out and they go to the library where she finds a book with directions to make a Polyjuice Potion, which allow the drinker to change into someone else. During a Quidditch Match, the Gryffindor team is overwhelmed by the Slytherin team with their faster broom sticks and Lee Jordan announces another point for Slytherin. During the game, Oliver has his broom broken by a rogue Bludger. The Bludger chases after Harry who sees the Snitch and chases after it with Draco behind him. Draco crashes and so does Harry, but he manages to grab the Snitch before he does. Hermione destroys the Bludger and Lockhart tries to fix Harry's arm, which was broken by the Bludger, but removes all of his bones in the process. Madam Pomfrey gives Harry a potion to regrow his arm bone. As he is laying in the hospital he hears the voice again and Dobby appears on his bed. He tells Harry it was him who made stopped the barrier from letting Ron and him onto the Hogwarts Express and also made the Bludger chase after him. Dobby tells Harry he is treated poorly by his family and he can only be free if his master presents him with clothes. Dobby warns Harry history is to repeat itself, but refuses to tell him more. Madame Pomfrey, Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore escort two other professors who bring Colin into the nurse's station on a stretcher in a petrified state. They take Colin's camera from his hands to look if he took a photo of his attacker, but the camera exhibits a poof of magic. Dumbledore tells Professor McGonagall the Chamber of Secrets has been opened again. Harry tells Hermione and Ron about what he heard last night in the girl's restroom. Hermione then introduces them to Moaning Myrtle who lives in the girl's restroom. Lockhart and Professor Snape introduce a Dueling Club so the students can practice defending themselves. Harry and Draco are pitted against each other and during the match, Draco creates a magic snake. The snake starts to slither towards Justin Finch-Fletchley and it appears that Harry is commanding the snake with Parseltongue. Professor Snape destroys the snake with a spell and Justin Finch-Fletchley angrily thinks Harry was sending the snake after him. Hermione tells Harry not many people have the gift of Parseltongue and Salazar Slytherin was a Paselmouth. Harry is shunned by his peers and as he is walking back to the common room, he hears the voice again repeating kill over and over and finds Nearly Headless Nick petrified next to a petrified Justin Finch-Fletchley. Mr Filch sees Harry standing over the body of Justin Finch-Fletchley leaves to tell others. Harry again sees spiders running away as Professor McGonagall arrives and takes Harry to see Dumbledore. Harry walks into Dumbledore's office and sees Fawkes and The Sorting Hat.