Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel): Difference between revisions

** Averted, in that we find out what he was actually doing - {{spoiler|making out with his girlfriend, who he hadn't told anyone about.}}

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: While not as tense and brooding as the later books, Chamber of Secrets presents a huge leap in violence from the first book. More importantly, though, it introduces elements that are flat-out horror and can be argued not to have been surpassed even in the later books. Harry hearing the Basilisk's macabre ramblings while the monster stalks the piping system and the sinister, hostile message in blood aren't even the only examples.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Harry having to answer Lockhart's fanmail as detention.

* [[Cover Identity Anomaly]]: Harry and Ron use Polyjuice Potion to pretend to be Crabbe and Goyle, but their infiltration of Slytherin House is stymied by the fact that they don't know how to get in to Slytherin's chambers. They ask a passing student, but she's from Ravenclaw. Fortunately, Crabbe and Goyle are so dim that they're not really acting out of character.