In this chapter... The trio manage to get Professor Lockheart to get a book – Moste Potente Potions – from the restricted section of the library. This will help them brew the Polyjuice Potion – a complicated potion that will take a month. Not only that, they’re going to have to steal a bunch of the ingredients from Professor Snape’s personal supply.
Harry plays in the first match of the Quidditch season. During the game, Harry realizes that someone has cursed one of the Bludgers. It won’t stop from going after him. Harry decides to take care of it on his own by out-maneuvering it. Just as he is about to catch the Snitch, however, the Bludger hits his arm hard and breaks it. He manages to reach out with his other hand, grab the Snitch, and win the game for Gryffindor. When Harry comes to he finds Lockheart standing over him, attempting to cure him. Lockheart ends up removing Harry’s bone, not mending it.
Harry spends the night in the hospital wring – Madam Pomfrey regrows the bones in his arm. In the middle of the night Harry is awaken by Dobby the house-elf. Harry is extremely annoyed to learn that Dobby not only closed the barriar, at King’s Cross, to try and stop Harry returning to Hogwarts, but also cursed the Bludger.Dobby says something evil is happening at Hogwarts – Harry would be much better at Privet Drive. Dobby says that the Chamber of Secrets gas been reopened again.
Professor Dumbledore comes into the hospital wing with Professor McGonagall. They’re carrying someone who is stiff as a board. When Madam Pomfrey comes in she’s horrified to see that the first year, Colin Creevey has been Petrified just like Mrs Norris. Harry overhears Dumbledore saying the Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again.
“Excuse me?” said Ron sharply. “What d’you mean, a bit of whoever we’re changing into? I’m drinking nothing with Crabbe’s toenails in it – ”
What sort of potion transforms a person into someone else? Polyjuice Potion
Chapter Eleven: The Duelling Club
In this chapter... Harry gets out of the hospital wing. He meets up with Ron and Hermione, who have started working on the Polyjuice Potion. They are brewing it in the girls toilets – haunted by Moaning Myrtle. The trio decide to cause a diversion in Professor Snape’s class so they can steal the ingredients they need. Hermione shocks Ron and Harry by volunteering to do the actual stealing. The plan goes perfectly, and they get what they need.
A Duelling club is going to be started, which causes a lot of interest with the Hogwarts pupils. Professor Fliwick – the Charms tutor – is rumoured to be a former duelling champion so everyone hopes it is him who will be running it. However, it is Professor Lockheart who is assisted by Professor Snape. The first meeting is a disaster when Malfoy and Harry duel and he shoots a snake out of his wand at Harry. The snake makes to attack Justin Finch-Fletchley, a Hufflepuff who is a Muggle born.. Harry tells the snake to go away, but for some reason this terrifies all the students. Ron rushes him out of the room. Harry later finds out that he is a Parselmouth, and can talk to snakes. When you talk to snakes, it is called Parseltongue. Harry mentions to Hermione and Ron that he once spoke to a boa constrictor in the zoo – before he knew he was a wizard – and even let the snake free. Ron says that Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth – this is why the Slytherin emblem is a snake. Everyone thinks he’s Slytherin’s Heir – especailly the Hufflepuffs – and they believe Harry is responsible for opening the Chamber of Secrets. When Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick are Petrified – and Harry found near the scene – Harry is taken to see Professor Dumbledore.
“Scared?” muttered Malfoy, so that Lockhart couldn’t hear him.
“You wish,” said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.
What did Peeves do when he found Harry next to the Petrified bodies of Justin Finch Fletchley and Nearly-Headless Nick? He screamed at the top of his lungs
Chapter Twelve: The Polyjuice Potion
In this chapter... Harry is alone in Professor Dumbledore’s study. He sees the Sorting Hat in the room, and cannot resist trying it on, to make sure he was Sorted into the right house. When he was Sorted last year, the Hat did say he would suit Slytherin, but Harry asked not to be put in Slytherin. Harry learns about Phoenixes after watching Dumbledore's bird, Fawkes, burn up and rise from his own ashes. Professor Dumbledore enters the study. Before Dumbledore can confront Harry Hagrid bursts through the door, with a dead rooster, saying that Harry had nothing to do with the Petrifying of Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick. Professor Dumbledore quickly assures Hagrid that he does not believe Harry was involved. He asks Harry if there’s anything he’d like to tell him. Again, Harry does not reveal he can hear a voice in the walls, and says nothing.
The trio stay at Hogwarts at Christmas, in order to finally get into Slytherin’s Common Room to question Malfoy. The Polyjuice Potion is finally ready on Christmas Day. Hermione already has a well-thought-out plan for how it’s going to work. They put Crabbe and Goyle to sleep with enchanted choclate cakes and use a piece of their hair to throw into their respective potions. Hermione uses the hair of Millicent Bulstrude, another Slytherin. Before they know it, Ron and Harry are looking just like Crabbe and Goyle. Hermione refuses to come out of toilet cubical for some reason so Harry and Ron leave without her.
They run into Malfoy and make it into the Slytherin Common Room. The Slytherin password is Pure Blood. Harry and Ron are shocked and disappointed to learn that Malfoy has no idea who the Heir of Slytherin is. Malfoy gleefully shows his friends a newspaper article from the Daily Prophet, saying how Arthur Weasley has been fined 50 galleons for the enchanted car. Malfoy also mentions that his father has some Dark Arts stuff hiden at their home. Ron and Harry barely make it out of the Common Room without detection, because they suddenly start turning back into themselves. When they make it back to the bathroom they finally persuade Hermione to come out of her toilet cubical, and they’re horrified to discover she looks exactly like a cat. Moaning Myrtle find it all very amusing.
Percy, who hadn’t noticed that Fred had bewitched his Prefect badge so that it now read “Pinhead”, kept asking them all what they were sniggering at.
What sort of food did Hermione fill with a Sleeping Draught? Chocolate Cakes
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