Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets2002

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Rating: PG
Runtime: 161 minutes

First sequels are the true test of an enduring movie franchise, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets passes with flying colors. Expanding upon the lavish sets, special effects, and grand adventure of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone… more »



[Harry has just entered the Chamber of Secrets. He see Ginny Weasley lying motionless at the end of the chamber.]

Harry:
Ginny. [Runs to her] Ginny. Ginny. Please don't be dead. Wake up. Wake up!

Tom Riddle:
[suddenly appears out of nowhere] She won't wake.

Harry:
Tom? Tom Riddle? What do you mean she won't wake? She's not...?

Tom Riddle:
She's still alive, but only just.

Harry:
Are you a ghost?

Tom Riddle:
A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years.

Harry:
[touches her hand] She's cold as ice. Ginny, please don't be dead. Wake up. [Tom picks up Harry's wand] You've got to help me, Tom. There's a basilisk--

Tom Riddle:
It won't come until it's called.

Harry:
Give me my wand, Tom.

Tom Riddle:
You won't be needing it.

Harry:
Listen, we've got to go, we've got to save her!

Tom Riddle:
I'm afraid I can't do that. You see, as poor Ginny grows weaker... I grow stronger. Yes, Harry. It was Ginny Weasley who opened the Chamber of Secrets.

Harry:
No. She couldn't. I mean, she wouldn't!

Tom Riddle:
It was Ginny who set the basilisk on the mudbloods and Filch's cat. [flashback of Ginny watching the Chamber's entrance in the toilets open] It was Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls. [flashback of Ginny writing the massages]

Harry:
But why?

Tom Riddle:
Because I told her to. You'll find I can be very... persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing. She was in, shall we say, a kind of trance. Still, the power of the diary began to scare her, and she tried to dispose of it in the girl's bathroom. [flashback of Ginny running into a toilet cubicle and throwing the diary into the toilet] And then who should find it... but you? The very person I was most anxious to meet.

Harry:
And why did you want to meet me?

Tom Riddle:
I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could. So I decided to show you my capture of that brainless oaf, Hagrid, to gain your trust.

Harry:
[angrily] Hagrid's my friend! And you framed him, didn't you?

Tom Riddle:
It was my word against Hagrid's. Only Dumbledore seemed to think he was innocent.

Harry:
[smiling] I bet Dumbledore saw right through you.

Tom Riddle:
He certainly kept an annoyingly close watch on me after that. I knew it wouldn't be safe to open the Chamber again while I was still at school, so I decided to leave behind a diary – preserving my sixteen year-old self in its pages so that one day, I would be able to lead another to finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work.

Harry:
Well, you haven't finished it this time. In a few hours, the mandrake draught will be ready and everyone who was petrified will be all right again.

Tom Riddle:
Haven't I told you? Killing mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore. For many months now, my new target... has been you. How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape, with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?

Harry:
Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time.

Tom Riddle:
Voldemort... is my past, present, and future. [uses Harry's wand to write his full name in midair: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE. He slashes the wand and the letters rearrange to become I AM LORD VOLDEMORT, before they fade]

Harry:
[stunned] You. You're the heir of Slytherin. You're Voldemort.

Tom Riddle:
Surely, you didn't think I was going to keep my filthy Muggle father's name? No. I fashioned myself a new name. A name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak, when I became the greatest sorcerer in the world!

Harry:
Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!

Tom Riddle:
Dumbledore's been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!

Harry:
He'll never be gone! Not as long as those who remain are loyal to him! [Fawkes suddenly enters the chamber] Fawkes? [Fawkes drops the Sorting Hat to Harry and leaves]

Tom Riddle:
So... this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender: a songbird and an old hat. [turns to the statue of Salazar Slytherin and speaks in Parseltongue] Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four. [The statue's mouth begins to open] Let's match the power of Lord Voldemort, Heir of Slytherin, against the famous Harry Potter. [The basilisk's snout emerges from the mouth; Harry turns and runs as the creature fully emerges] [in Parseltongue] Kill him! [to Harry] Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter! It only obeys me!

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