Search results
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second film in the Harry Potter film series, with Chris Columbus returning as director for the second and last time. The film was released in 2002.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the Grand Finale of the Harry Potter film saga, based on the eponymous book. The book was split into two films ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) to include as much of the material as possible, comprising the seventh and eighth installments of the film series.
Founded in 1707, the Ministry of Magic is a secret ministry that governed the wizarding community in Britain for many years. The Ministry is governed by the Minister of Magic, who enjoys nearly autocratic powers, and the secretive Wizengamot, making the Ministry a police state on many occasions.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the 2002 film adaptation of the 1998 novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling, directed by Chris Columbus. Like the other films in the series, it features Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as an All-Star Cast.
- Overview
- Plot
- Cast
- Differences from the book
- Chapters
- Character omissions
- Trivia
- Mistakes
- Behind the scenes
"Something evil has returned to Hogwarts!"
— Official tagline
is a British-American fantasy film based on the second novel by J. K. Rowling, released on 15 November 2002. Chris Columbus returned to direct the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as did Steve Kloves to write, and David Heyman to produce. Reprising their roles from Philosopher's Stone are Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Bonnie Wright, David Bradley, Tom Felton, and Sean Biggerstaff, while Kenneth Branagh, Jason Isaacs, Robert Hardy, Shirley Henderson, Gemma Jones, Miriam Margolyes, Mark Williams and Toby Jones make their debut for the series.
is Richard Harris' last live-action film; he died before its premiere and the film is dedicated to his memory.
In 1992, shortly after the end of his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the first film, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) spends a dreadful summer at the Dursleys' house without being allowed to use magic outside of school nor receiving any letters from his new friends, Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), both of whom he is unable to contact because neither his Aunt Petunia (Fiona Shaw) nor Uncle Vernon (Richard Griffiths) would allow their nephew's pet owl Hedwig out of her padlocked cage. On the evening of his twelfth birthday (July 31), he is visited in his room and warned that he will be in mortal danger if he returns to Hogwarts by a house-elf named Dobby (Toby Jones), who reveals that he has intercepted all of the letters to make it seem as though Harry's friends had forgotten him, hoping that it will then dissuade Harry from returning. But Harry ignores the warning and is determined to seize the letters, so Dobby, seeing that he will have to use force, heads downstairs and destroys a large cake that Petunia has baked for an important dinner party which Vernon is holding downstairs for the family of his client Mr Mason (Jim Norton) by the use of a Hover Charm, dropping it on Mrs Mason's (Veronica Clifford) head. Robbed of this one chance that could've been the turning point of his career as director of the drill company Grunnings, Vernon imprisons Harry by fitting bars onto his bedroom window to restrict him from returning to Hogwarts for his second year as punishment.
The next night, Ron and his older brothers Fred and George (James and Oliver Phelps), come to Harry's rescue in an enchanted Ford Anglia belonging to their father, Head of the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams). After a pleasant stay together in the Weasley home, the Burrow, Harry accompanies the family on a trip through the Floo Network to buy some first year school supplies for Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) in Diagon Alley, where they encounter Hermione and Hogwarts half-giant gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) while attending a book signing at Flourish and Blotts for flamboyant celebrity author Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh), who is recently appointed to teach at Hogwarts as the school's new Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. After the signing, the trio run into their school rival, the Slytherin Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), and his father, chief Hogwarts governor Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs), who manages to slip a diary into Ginny's belongings while arguing with Mr Weasley about the latter's recent Muggle Protection Act for the Ministry.
The trio and Weasley children head to Platform 9¾ at King's Cross to take the Hogwarts Express back to school, but Dobby seals the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 on Harry and Ron and makes them miss the train. As a loophole, however, the two boys instead fly to Hogwarts in the Ford Anglia, which unfortunately runs out of fuel for its Invisibility Booster when it catches up to the train (allowing the "flying car" to be seen by numerous Muggles) and crashes into the Whomping Willow on the school grounds. Ron's wand is damaged and the semi-sentient car ejects them with their belongings before disappearing into the Forbidden Forest. School caretaker Argus Filch (David Bradley) brings them before Potions Professor Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), who shows them the sightings of the car on the Evening Prophet and threatens to have them expelled. However, famed Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris) and his Deputy Headmistress, Transfiguration Professor Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) intervene by deciding that they will instead be sanctioned with detention.
Harry soon finds he is the unwanted centre of attention of three people due to being famous: Lockhart, who wants to boost Harry's fame, Colin Creevey (Hugh Mitchell), who takes a picture with Harry, and Ginny, who has a huge crush on Harry. However, while serving detention with Lockhart on Hallowe'en, events take a turn for the worse when Harry hears strange voices and later finds the petrified body of Filch's cat, Mrs Norris hanging on a torch clamp. On the wall near it is a message written in blood announcing that the "Chamber of Secrets has been opened" and that enemies of the heir should take caution. Unknown to everyone, a monster/monstrous creature stalks the castle, with the power literally to petrify several students. During a Transfiguration class, McGonagall explains that according to legend, one of the school's founders, Salazar Slytherin, built a secret Chamber and sheltered a monster in it before leaving the school for good. Only his heir can open the chamber and use the monster to purge impure-blooded wizards and witches whom Salazar deemed unworthy to study magic.
More attacks occur over the course of the year. Harry and Ron suspect Malfoy is the Heir, so Hermione suggests they question him while disguised using Polyjuice Potion. Their makeshift laboratory is in a disused bathroom haunted by the ghost of a former Hogwarts student named Myrtle Warren (Shirley Henderson), whom the school community addresses as "Moaning Myrtle".
During the duelling lesson hosted by Snape and Lockhart, Malfoy conjures a cobra which menaces at a Hufflepuff student named Justin Finch-Fletchley. Harry manages to control the snake by inadvertently revealing his ability to speak a serpent language known as Parseltongue before Snape vanishes the carnivorous reptile. This causes the school to suspect that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin. Unknowingly, Harry managed to gain the rare ability on the night Lord Voldemort failed to kill him when the former was still an infant.
The trio
•Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter •Josh Herdman as Harry Potter under the effects of the Polyjuice Potion •Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley •Jamie Waylett as Ron Weasley under the effects of the Polyjuice Potion •Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Hogwarts staff
•Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore •Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall •Alan Rickman as Severus Snape •Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid •Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart •Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick •Miriam Margolyes as Pomona Sprout •Gemma Jones as Poppy Pomfrey •Sally Mortemore as Irma Pince •David Bradley as Argus Filch
Other Hogwarts denizens
•Leslie Phillips as the Sorting Hat (voice) •Peter Taylor as Man in Portrait •Daisy Bates as Brunette Lady in Portrait •David Tysall as Count in Portrait •Violet Columbus as Girl with Flowers
1. The Worst Birthday
•The book begins in the morning of Harry's birthday. The film begins in the evening of the day the Masons' visit, omitting Dobby in the hedges and additional quarrels between Harry and the Dursleys. However Vernon does say that Harry is not thankful; Vernon says they cared for Harry since he was a baby, gave him their good food, and giving him Dudley's extra bedroom because they were so merciful. •On a related note, the film implies that the Dursleys' gave Harry Dudley's old bedroom after his first year of Hogwarts, when he actually was given the bedroom right before Harry's new school year in the previous book, in an attempt to dissuade the acceptance letters to Hogwarts addressed to Harry. •The Dursleys preparing and practising for the Masons' visit all day is omitted, so instead they only practise in the evening before they come. However, this is implied as a review of their duties and roles, as the Dursleys must have practised all day off-screen. •The scene where Harry is banned by the Dursleys from saying the word 'magic' is not in the film.
2. Dobby's Warning
•In the book, when Harry enters his room, Dobby sits on his bed quietly. In the film, Dobby is jumping on his bed and laughing. •Exactly when Dobby's banging on the wall caused Vernon to investigate and tell off Harry for ruining his "Japanese golfer joke" varies: in the book, the noise ruined Vernon's delivery of the punchline, while in the film, he was half-way through the joke. •Dobby does not mention that Voldemort, or a possible brother could be a suspect, as in the book version. •In the books, whenever Dobby disapparates, the usual loud crack is heard. But in the films, Dobby appears and disappears quietly, however it differs from film to film how he does it. In this film he fades, like if the wind took him. •The film shows Dobby levitating the cake into the sitting room and dropping it on top of Mrs Mason. In the book, however, the pudding dropped by Dobby in the kitchen, causing it to explode all over Harry, not Mrs Mason. Also in the film. Mr Mason tastes the cake, using a finger. •While the reason in the film for the Masons' departure was due to the cake dropping on Mrs Mason, in the book it was due to Mrs Mason's fear of birds when an owl sent by the Ministry of Magic arrived at the Dursleys in regards to the illegal use of the Hover Charm that was performed. •A scene is cut where the Ministry sends a letter to reprimand Harry for violating the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, which informed the Dursleys of this rule. This explains in the following film how Vernon Dursley already knew that Harry is not allowed to perform magic outside of school. Since this scene was not included in this film, it caused a continuity error with the future films. •In the book, Uncle Vernon pays a man to fit the bars on Harry's window, but in the film, Uncle Vernon fits the bars on Harry's window himself. •Harry's nightmare of himself being in a zoo cage is omitted.
3. The Burrow
•In the film, Ron wishes Harry a happy birthday when they fly away from 4 Privet Drive, as the Weasleys get Harry out the same evening. Ron doesn't say this in the book as Harry's birthday was the same day the Masons visited. •In the book, the Dursleys were woken up by Hedwig's screech. In the film, they're woken up by the noise of the bars falling into the grass. •In the book, Harry's trunk is locked in the cupboard under the stairs and Fred and George sneak in the house and pick the lock of both Harry's room and the cupboard. In the film, Harry's trunk is in his room and Fred and George don't sneak in the house. •In the book, Harry nearly forgets Hedwig, but he gets to her just in time. In the film, Harry doesn't forget anything. •When Ron, Fred and George arrive to rescue Harry, in the book they tie a rope to the bars. In the film, Ron places a large hook on a rope on the bars. •When Harry was escaping from the Dursleys, the book states that all of the Dursleys tried to prevent him from escaping, only to end up hanging from the window. The film depicts only Uncle Vernon trying to prevent him from escaping, which results in him falling out of the window and landing into a bush. The fall of Vernon from the window was a comic effect created to make the scene funnier for the audience. •In the Flying Ford Anglia the Weasley brothers suggest that Dobby could be an untrustworthy servant of the Malfoys. This is omitted from the film. •In the book, when Harry arrives at the Weasleys' home, Mrs Weasley makes her sons "de-gnome" the garden. This scene is omitted from the film.
1.In a Cage
2.Dobby's Warning
3.Car Rescue
4.The Burrow
5.To Diagon Alley
6.Flourish and Blotts
•Peeves
•Patrick Delaney-Podmore
•Fat Friar
•Grey Lady (Appears in deleted scene)
•Bloody Baron
•Wailing Widow
•This is the only film on DVD and VHS to use the Warner Home Video logo with AOL Time Warner byline. The US version has the logo's music in low tone, while the UK and other international versions have the music of the logo in it's regular tone.
•This is the longest film of the series in length.
•It was the second highest grossing movie of 2002 behind The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
•The only film of the series to have a post credits scene.
•This is the last movie to feature all the Hogwarts students wearing their 2001 era uniforms and then the ties and jumpers get updated in Prisoner of Azkaban.
•Dedicated to Richard Harris, who died before the film's premiere.
•When Dobby first sees Harry, there is a red flag and an orange flag behind him (Dobby). You can see that the orange flag is missing a thumb tack. When Harry tells Dobby that he's not supposed to be there, the thumb tack is there.
•In Borgin & Burkes, the Hand of Glory is wrapped around Harry's hand. In the next shot, it is wrapped around his wrist.
•In Borgin & Burkes, while Harry is looking at the jar of skulls, there is nothing next to the jar, In the next shot, an iron stand appears out of nowhere.
•When Lockhart is saying "it's 27th week atop the Daily Prophet Bestseller List..." the camera scrolls up to Malfoy. You can clearly see Tom Felton's tape mark marking where he is supposed to place his feet.
•While Harry and Ron are crashing into Platform 9 3/4, Hedwig is obviously just a stuffed owl.
•Right after Harry and Ron crash into the platform, Ron's suitcase has three brown lines. Five shots later, it has two lines.
•An additional scene appears after the end credits, depicting Lockhart's newest book, Who Am I?. This is the only film to have a scene occur after the end credits, if you do not count the next instalment's small Nox spell by Harry that turns out the light.
•This is the first film in the series to begin directly with the title. The second is Order of the Phoenix.
•This is the first film that has no lightning during the title. The second is Prisoner of Azkaban, the third is Goblet of Fire, and the last is Order of the Phoenix.
•This film is the second time a Gryffindor-Slytherin Quidditch match is seen and just like the first film Gryffindor wins.
•This film is the only time Draco Malfoy is seen playing Quidditch in the films due to Slytherin's matches against Gryffindor being omitted from the third and fifth films. Draco is shown playing Quidditch again in the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey attraction at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
•If you listen closely, when Lucius attempts to curse Harry for freeing Dobby, he starts the "Avada-" portion of the Killing Curse, before being thrown back by Dobby's spell. According to Jason Isaacs, he ad-libbed the line as the script never mentioned a specific curse he was supposed to use, so he had to use the first spell that came to his mind.
It is based on the 1998 novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling. Produced by David Heyman, it is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and the second instalment in the Harry Potter film series.
People also ask
What happened to Harry and Ron in Harry Potter & Hermione?
What happened in Harry Potter & the prisoner of Azkaban?
What is the split between Part 1 & Part 2 of Harry Potter?
Did Harry and the Weasleys fight in Gryffindor?
Who is Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter & Dumbledore?
Can Harry & Ron defeat Voldemort?
Nov 15, 2002 · Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened.
