It is a 2002 British-American fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures. It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling.;xNLx;The story follows Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts as the Heir of Salazar Slytherin opens the Chamber of Secrets, unleashing a monster that petrifies the school's denizens.;xNLx;The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and is followed by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
One of the Hogwarts' founders, Salazar Slytherin, supposedly constructed a secret Chamber, after a fundamental disagreement with the others (Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, and Rowena Ravenclaw), and placed inside it a monster that only his Heir can control, to purge the school of impure-blooded wizards and witches. Those with “pure” blood (only wizarding heritage) have the advantage over and condescend to those with Muggle parentage.
Tom Riddle was a boy who studied in Hogwart’s school 50 years before Harry was born. He was a very curious and intelligent student who finally turned out to be Lord Voldemort, the most cruel magician from all time.
In theory, 50 years before Harry Potter arrived to Hogwart’s school, Tom Riddle saw Hagrid, now gamekeeper for the school, but then a student, opening the Chamber and putting inside a monster, a giant spider. When the Chamber was opened, the monster inside it (which it’s not sure if it was the spider or not) killed a girl called Myrtle. Her ghost is now living in one bathroom of the school.
Dobby an impish but loyal house-elf named Dobby arrives out of nowhere to warn Harry against the decision to return to the wizarding world, citing grave danger as the reason, revealing that he had been intercepting Harry's letters from his friends, and inciting Harry’s gravest punishment. Harry didn’t listen to Dobby and Ron Weasley arrives with his twin brothers Fred and George to take Harry with them with the flying car of father Weasley without the permission of Harry’s uncle. When Harry and Ron are blocked from entering Platform Nine and Three-Quarters (later revealed to be Dobby's doing), they fly to Hogwarts in Ron's father's car, crashing into the hostile Whomping Willow upon arrival. Ron's wand is damaged, and the car throws them out before driving off. They are allowed back into school but face detention because they have been seen by muggles, so they have skipped a very important rule.
While serving detention with Lockhart, Harry starts hearing strange voices, voices that he only can hear, seemingly coming from the walls of the school itself. Just a few minutes later, Ron, Hermione and Harry find school caretaker Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, petrified, and a message written on the wall in blood announcing the "Chamber of Secrets has been opened, Enemies of the Heir, beware".
Dobby returns and tell Harry that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened before, Just a few minutes later, another attack occurs, this time to a first-year Gryffindor named Colin Creevey who idolises Harry, and the school enters panic mode, setting up a dueling class for the students, during which it is revealed that Harry is a 'Parselmouth', meaning he has the rare gift to speak to snakes. This sparks the rumour mill yet again, as students around the school suspect Harry of being the Heir of Slytherin (as Slytherin was also a parselmouth)
Another attack happens, this time on Hufflepuff second-year Justin Finch Fletchley and the Gryffindor ghost. Harry, Ron, and Hermione begin to suspect that Draco is behind the attacks, given his family history of remaining well within Slytherin ranks and open hostility toward Muggle-born students. Hermione suggests they question Draco while disguised using polyjuice potion. Their makeshift laboratory is in a disused bathroom haunted by a ghost, Moaning Myrtle. They finally discover that Malfoy is not the Heir, but he mentions that a girl died when the Chamber was last opened fifty years ago.
Harry finds an enchanted diary, owned by a former student named Tom Riddle., thanks to Myrtle. Tom was a student who knows all too well about the Chamber, having been witness to a fellow student’s death fifty years ago.
Hermione is attacked and petrified, alongside a Ravenclaw prefect, the school is put on lockdown, and Harry and Ron question Hagrid about everything related to the Chamber and he promises them he didn’t open it. Dumbledore and Hagrid are forced to leave the premises, because they are accused to be the authors of the Chamber opening.
Fortunately for Harry and Ron, Hagrid left a set of instructions: to follow the spiders currently fleeing into the Forbidden Forest, which they do, only to find the monster blamed for the attacks fifty years before, a massive spider named Aragog, who reveals Hagrid's innocence and that the dead girl was found in a bathroom, who they discover is Myrtle. It also explains to the duo that the real monster is one that spiders fear above all others.
A book page in Hermione's hand identifies the monster is a basilisk, a giant serpent that instantly kills those who make direct eye contact with it. The petrified victims saw it, but not directly, they saw it through something: a camera, water, or even a mirror. Harry also figures out from hints Aragog dropped that the entrance of the Chamber is the bathroom were Myrtle died. After that, The school staff learn that Ginny was taken into the Chamber, and convince Lockhart to save her. Harry and Ron find Lockhart, exposed as a fraud, planning to flee; knowing Myrtle was the girl the Basilisk killed, they drag him to her bathroom and find the Chamber's entrance.
He arrives to find Ginny in a weakened state being watched over by a shadowy, ghostly Riddle, who explains that he is not only the heir of Slytherin, but also grew up to become Voldemort himself, before setting the basilisk upon Harry; Harry defeats the monster, with the help of Dumbledore's Phoenix, and the Sword of Gryffindor. He also destroys the diary, which makes Riddle disappear.
Harry defeats Riddle and revives Ginny by stabbing the diary with a basilisk fang. Fawkes's tears heal him, and he returns to Hogwarts with his friends and a baffled Lockhart. Dumbledore, reinstated as headmaster, praises them and orders for Hagrid's release. Dumbledore shows Harry that the sword he wielded was Godric Gryffindor's own sword, and says he is different from Voldemort because he chose Gryffindor House instead of Slytherin House. Harry accuses Lucius, Dobby's master, of putting the diary in Ginny's cauldron and tricks him into freeing Dobby. The Basilisk's victims are healed, Hermione reunites with Harry and Ron, and Hagrid returns.
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