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* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: The ''Expelliarmus'' spell, which Harry learns in this book.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: {{spoiler|Lucius avoids prison time but suffers several blows to his ego. A twelve-year-old both stops his plan and tricks him into freeing Dobby, who takes the first opportunity to pay Lucius back for years of abuse by ''effortlessly'' blasting him down a flight of stairs.}}
** Let's not forget that Lucius also lost his job as one of the governors of Hogwarts, something he could have avoided if he hadn't [[What an Idiot!|threatened the other governors' families]].
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: Percy. [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Now that you're not 12,]] [http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo2uv86kMd1qcw1lgo1_500.jpg give this passage a close read.]
** Averted, in that we find out what he was actually doing - {{spoiler|making out with his girlfriend, who he hadn't told anyone about.}}
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* [[Disappointed in You]]: Dumbledore and McGonagall to Harry after he flies the car to Hogwarts.
* [[Disney Death]]: Ginny Weasley gets one in the Chamber of Secrets.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [[The Hero|Harry]] has to [[Rescue Romance|save Ginny]] by going into a '''chamber of secrets''' and fighting a '''giant snake''' that belongs to a very weird, much older guy that's been corrupting Ginny for the whole book. With a legendary sword that holds strange powers. Uh-''huh''.
* [[Do Wrong Right]]: Arthur Weasley is far more pleased than his wife when his sons steal his flying car and use it to pick up Harry.
* [[Enemy Within]]/[[The Killer in Me]]: {{spoiler|Poor Ginny.}}
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* [[Feet of Clay]]: Gilderoy Lockhart.
* [[Follow the White Rabbit|Follow The Spiders]]
** [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Follow the spiders? Why can't we follow the butterflies?]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|"Potter, you've got yourself a girlfriend!"}} More seriously, {{spoiler|when Ginny decides to confess, who does she go to? One of her older brothers? One of the teachers? No. She goes to Harry.}}
** In chapter 14 when second-years sign up for electives to take next year, it mentions Hermione signed up for every class offered. This becomes a key plot point [[Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|in the next book]].
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* [[Innocuously Important Episode]]: Some readers found the novel to be heavy in the padding department, particularly the [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]] aspect. But the novel is quietly setting up ''[[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]]''.
* [[Involuntary Group Split]]: Gilderoy Lockhart's wayward spell sets off an earthquake that separates Ron from Harry, so Harry has to go alone into the Chamber.
* [[Irony]]: In retrospect, Ron trying to comfort Ginny after the attack on Mrs. Norris by telling her that "they'll catch the maniac who did it and have him out of here in no time." Assuming Ginny had begun to suspect herself at that point, this might also count as [[Oblivious Guilt Slinging]]. After all, at the end of the book, she ''was'' [[Fridge Brilliance|convinced that she was going to be expelled]]. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Way to go, Ron.]]
** When wondering what Tom Riddle got a Special Award for Service to the School for, Ron sarcastically suggests that maybe he killed Myrtle as "that would've done everyone a favor." {{spoiler|Riddle did kill her and he got the award for successfully framing Hagrid as her murderer.}}
** Another potential example: Hermione suggests that whoever flushed Riddle's diary may have been the culprit, trying to stop anyone from finding out details about the last time the Chamber was opened. It ''was'' the culprit (sort of), but they did it to ''stop'' the attacks.
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* [[Parody Magic Spell]]: Harry threatens Dudley with the words "Hocus pocus! Squiggly wiggly!"
* [[Pensieve Flashback]]: Although the actual Pensieve wasn't introduced until ''[[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]'', Riddle's diary displays this here, two books earlier.
* [[Politically
* [[Post Mortem Comeback]]: The entire basis of the plot; Voldemort hid pieces of his memories in a book, who took the form of Tom Riddle, but it's inverted - Voldemort himself was already alive to begin with... somewhat.
* [[Ransacked Room]]: Ginny ransacks Harry's dormitory in order to get Tom Riddle's diary back.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Harry gives one to {{spoiler|the memory of Riddle, gloating over how his Muggle-born mother reduced Voldemort to almost nothing.}}
* [[Red Herring]]: Ginny, Percy, Hagrid and Malfoy -- and Harry -- are all set up as possible Heirs of Slytherin, with Malfoy being the choice that's so obvious it's stupid, and Ginny, Percy and Hagrid all having Really Big Secrets that make them act suspicious.
** Naturally, Malfoy is the one our heroes suspect and they spend half the book finding out that it isn't him.
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* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: Lucius Malfoy, who is a distinguished Ministry official despite being a former Death Eater.
** He manages this by attributing his past affiliation with the [[Big Bad]] to [[Mind Rape|the Imperius Curse.]]
** Lockhart is another example, although he's more of an [[Anti
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The Basilisk would die at the crowing of a rooster (presumably because it is hatched from a chicken's egg incubated by a toad). One wonders just how effective a weapon a Basilisk would be to a dark wizard in any other situation, given everyone knows this and roosters aren't exactly hard to come by.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]] / [[Description Cut]] / [[Gilligan Cut]]: At the very end of Chapter 9, "The Writing On The Wall", Hermione comes up with the idea of using Polyjuice Potion to get information from Malfoy. However, the book with info on how to make it is in the Restricted Section of the library, and they need permission from a professor to take out the book, which would raise suspicion from any professor they ask.
{{quote| "Oh, come on, no teacher's gonna fall for that!" said Ron, "they'd have to be really thick..." *end chapter* <br />
*start of next chapter* Since the disastrous episode with the pixies, Professor Lockhart had not brought live creatures to class... }}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Spiders]]: Poor, poor Ron.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Knockturn Alley, like its good counterpart Diagon Alley, is a punning name ("Nocturnally" or "Nocturne" Alley)
* [[Wrote the Book]]: Inverted; even though Lockhart literally wrote the book on dealing with magical pests, that doesn't mean he has a clue about it.
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