Chamber of Secrets

by J.K. Rowling

Harry ignores Dobby's desperate warnings and returns to Hogwarts for his second year — only to find students petrified, a message scrawled in blood about the Chamber of Secrets, and a voice in the walls that only he can hear. Someone has opened Salazar Slytherin's legendary chamber, and the heir of Slytherin is hunting Muggle-borns.

52 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Albus Dumbledore — The most powerful wizard alive and Hogwarts' headmaster. While students are being petrified and the school faces closure, Dumbledore watches, waits, a
• Argus Filch — Hogwarts' bitter Squib caretaker whose cat Mrs Norris is among the first victims of the Basilisk -- found petrified hanging from a torch bracket benea
• Arthur Weasley — A pure-blood wizard utterly enchanted by the Muggle world -- he enchanted a Ford Anglia to fly, asks about rubber ducks with PhD-level intensity, and
• Dobby — A house-elf enslaved by the Malfoy family, desperately trying to protect Harry Potter by sabotaging him at every turn -- sealing the platform barrier,
• Draco Malfoy — Slytherin's silver prince -- strutting through his second year with a new Nimbus 2001 his father bought and the word 'Mudblood' ready on his tongue. H
• Dudley Dursley — Harry's spoiled Muggle cousin -- large, blond, and still terrified of wizards after Hagrid gave him a pig's tail last year. He spends the summer watch
• Fred Weasley — One half of the Weasley twins -- fourth year, Gryffindor Beater, co-architect of the flying car rescue, and the kind of person who makes you laugh so
• George Weasley — The other half of the Weasley twins -- slightly gentler, slightly quieter, but equally brilliant. Co-pilot of the flying car rescue and co-inventor of
• Gilderoy Lockhart — The new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor -- bestselling author, five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award, and a fraud so co
• Ginny Weasley — The youngest Weasley, starting her first year at Hogwarts -- shy, small, nursing a desperate crush on Harry Potter, and writing her deepest secrets in
• Gregory Goyle — Draco's second enforcer -- slightly taller than Crabbe, equally dim, equally useful as muscle. Harry impersonates him with Polyjuice Potion to interro
• Harry Potter — A twelve-year-old wizard returning for his second year at Hogwarts, still adjusting to fame he never asked for. This year he'll discover he can speak
• Hedwig — Harry's snowy owl and his first true companion in the wizarding world -- locked in her cage all summer by the Dursleys, she is irritable, hungry, and
• Hermione Granger — A Muggle-born witch whose brilliance and relentless preparation keep her friends alive. In her second year she brews Polyjuice Potion in a bathroom at
• Lucius Malfoy — Draco's father, a Hogwarts school governor, and the man who slipped Tom Riddle's diary into an eleven-year-old girl's cauldron -- treating a fragment
• Madam Pomfrey — Hogwarts' formidable matron who heals everything from Bludger-shattered arms to Polyjuice-induced cat transformations, clucking disapproval at whateve
• Minerva McGonagall — Hogwarts' Deputy Headmistress and Transfiguration professor -- strict, fair, and Scottish to her bones. When Dumbledore is removed, she holds the scho
• Moaning Myrtle — The weepy teenage ghost who haunts the second-floor girls' bathroom -- she was killed by the Basilisk fifty years ago when Tom Riddle first opened the
• Molly Weasley — Mother of seven, heart of the Burrow, and the woman who sends Howlers that make the Great Hall go silent. She feeds everyone, worries about everything
• Nearly Headless Nick — Gryffindor's house ghost, a jovial 15th-century nobleman whose botched execution left his head hanging by a thread. This year he throws a Deathday Par
• Neville Longbottom — A round-faced, accident-prone Gryffindor who loses his toad, melts his cauldrons, and seems like the least likely person to matter -- but the Sorting
• Peeves — Hogwarts' resident poltergeist -- a spirit of pure chaos who takes unholy delight in the petrification crisis, composing rude songs about Harry being
• Percy Weasley — The most ambitious Weasley -- a newly appointed Gryffindor Prefect who takes himself extremely seriously, patrols the corridors with officious authori
• Petunia Dursley — Harry's Muggle aunt -- thin, horse-faced, and determined to stamp out every trace of magic in her household. She locks Harry in his room and pretends
• Pomona Sprout — Warm, earthy Head of Hufflepuff and Herbology professor who tends the Mandrakes that are the school's only hope of curing the petrified students -- if
• Ron Weasley — The sixth Weasley son -- loyal, funny, and perpetually overshadowed. This year he crashes a flying car into the Whomping Willow, vomits slugs after a
• Rubeus Hagrid — Hogwarts' half-giant gamekeeper, falsely expelled fifty years ago for a crime Tom Riddle committed. When the Chamber of Secrets opens again, the suspi
• Severus Snape — The Potions Master of Hogwarts -- greasy-haired, hook-nosed, and nursing a hatred of Harry Potter that borders on obsessive. This year he runs the Due
• Tom Riddle — Not a ghost, not a body -- a memory preserved in a diary for fifty years, as handsome and charming as the sixteen-year-old Hogwarts prefect he once wa
• Vernon Dursley — Harry's blustering Muggle uncle -- large, mustached, and apoplectic about anything abnormal. He installs bars on Harry's window and a cat flap on his
• Vincent Crabbe — Draco Malfoy's brutish enforcer -- large, dim, and loyal in the way a guard dog is loyal. This year Harry and Ron impersonate him with Polyjuice Potio

Locations

• 4 Privet Drive — The aggressively normal Dursley house where Harry spends another miserable summer -- this time with bars on his window, a padlocked owl cage, and a ho
• Chamber of Secrets — A hidden underground chamber deep beneath Hogwarts, built by Salazar Slytherin a thousand years ago and accessible only by speaking Parseltongue -- th
• Diagon Alley — The hidden wizarding shopping street in London where the Weasleys and Grangers buy school supplies, Lockhart signs books at Flourish and Blotts, and L
• Gryffindor Tower — The common room and dormitories of Gryffindor House, guarded by the Fat Lady's portrait, where Harry and Ron plot in armchairs and Hermione brews ille
• Hagrid's Hut — A small wooden house at the edge of the Forbidden Forest where Hagrid lives with Fang -- the place where he tells Harry and Ron to follow the spiders
• Headmaster's Office — Dumbledore's office at the top of a spiral staircase -- where the Sorting Hat sits on a shelf, Fawkes the phoenix burns and is reborn, and Harry is su
• Hogwarts Library — A vast library guarded by Madam Pince, where Hermione finds the Polyjuice recipe in the Restricted Section and tears out the page about Basilisks that
• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry — The premier wizarding school in Britain -- a vast enchanted castle in the Scottish Highlands now under siege from within. Something ancient is moving
• Hospital Wing — The Hogwarts infirmary where petrified students lie in rows like statues, waiting for Mandrake Restorative Draught that won't be ready for months.
• Knockturn Alley — A dark side street off Diagon Alley where Harry ends up after a Floo powder mishap, stumbling into Borgin and Burkes just as the Malfoys are selling d
• Platform Nine and Three-Quarters — The hidden railway platform at King's Cross where the Hogwarts Express departs -- and where Dobby seals the barrier to prevent Harry and Ron from boar
• Quidditch Pitch — The Hogwarts Quidditch field where Harry faces Draco's Nimbus 2001, a rogue Bludger enchanted by Dobby, and Lockhart's medical attention -- which is w
• Slytherin Dungeon — The Slytherin common room beneath the Black Lake -- where Harry and Ron, disguised as Crabbe and Goyle via Polyjuice Potion, interrogate Draco about t
• The Burrow — The Weasley family home -- a ramshackle, magically-expanded house of many crooked stories where Harry spends the happiest weeks of his summer, discove
• The Forbidden Forest — A vast, ancient, dangerous woodland on the Hogwarts grounds where Hagrid tells Harry and Ron to follow the spiders -- a trail that leads to Aragog's h
• The Great Hall — The main dining and assembly hall of Hogwarts, where the enchanted ceiling mirrors the sky, the Sorting Ceremony takes place, and Molly Weasley's Howl

Items

• Basilisk Fang — A curved, razor-sharp fang from the thousand-year-old Basilisk -- its venom is one of the few substances potent enough to destroy a Horcrux, and Harry
• Cloak of Invisibility — Harry's Invisibility Cloak, inherited from his father -- essential this year for sneaking into the Restricted Section, hiding in Hagrid's hut during t
• Sword of Gryffindor — A goblin-made silver sword with rubies in the hilt that appears from inside the Sorting Hat to any true Gryffindor in a moment of dire need. Harry use
• The Sorting Hat — A sentient, patched, thousand-year-old wizard's hat that sorts new students into houses -- and this year delivers the Sword of Gryffindor to Harry in
• Tom Riddle's Diary — A small black diary containing a fragment of sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle's soul -- it writes back when you write in it, shows you memories, gains your

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