Harry and Ron get into huge trouble for arriving late at school and coming in a flying car. Harry and Ron survive, but the car is fed up and rolls off into the Forbidden Forest. They succeed in reaching Hogwarts mostly safe (though they are spotted by some Muggles, which is strictly against wizard law), but the car loses power and crashes into a violent tree called the Whomping Willow. In a panic that they have missed the train to Hogwarts, they decide to take Mr. But Harry and Ron can't get through the magical barrier to Platform 9 3/4. Harry and Ron arrive at King's Cross Station to take the Hogwarts Express with the other Weasley kids who attend Hogwarts: Ginny, Fred, George, and Percy. The owner of the store finally has to break it up. Weasley's poverty and low social standing. At Flourish and Blotts is also Harry's main school enemy, Draco, and his father, Lucius Malfoy.
Professor Lockhart seems excessively vain and self-conscious he immediately zeroes in on Harry as the famous Boy-Who-Lived and tries to use Harry's fame to get more attention for himself from the Daily Prophet newspaper. The store is hosting a book signing by the new Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart. In Diagon Alley, the main wizarding street in London, Harry, Ron, and Hermione go to Flourish and Blotts (a bookstore) to buy their school textbooks for the year. Harry has an awesome time there until school starts, especially once he and Ron go into London to buy school supplies and meet up with their other best friend, Hermione Granger. They bring Harry back to the Weasley household at the Burrow.
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They pull the bars from the windows and help Harry to escape.
They come flying up to the bars on Harry's windows in an enchanted car belonging to their father. However, Uncle Vernon doesn't count on the inventiveness of Ron Weasley, one of Harry's best friends, and his two brothers, Fred and George. So Uncle Vernon shuts Harry up in his bedroom with bars on the windows. Uncle Vernon loses his deal, and he blames Harry. So Dobby takes desperate measures: he casts a charm that ruins the Dursleys' dinner party. Dobby is disappointed Harry won't promise not to return to Hogwarts. Harry doesn't care about random threats from the arch-nemesis who killed his parents, Lord Voldemort he just desperately has to get away from the Dursleys and back to his best friends at school. Harry can't go back to Hogwarts for his own safety Dobby is determined to keep the Boy-Who-Lived alive. This particular house-elf has sneaked away from his Dark wizard family to warn Harry that something bad is coming to Hogwarts this school year. House-elves are bound in servitude to wizarding families. When Harry retreats to his room to stay out of the way, though, he finds someone unexpected waiting there: a house-elf named Dobby. Uncle Vernon tells Harry to sit in his room and pretend he doesn't exist – he doesn't want Harry's freakishness (i.e., magic) wrecking his business. All the Dursleys care about is their guests for the evening: important clients for Uncle Vernon's drill business. On July 31, it's Harry's birthday, but no one remembers. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets SummaryĪfter a marvelous year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter is stuck spending summer break with his awful Muggle (non-wizard) aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, and his equally horrid cousin, Dudley.