History Fridge / HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets

* The throwaway mention of Flitwick having been a duelling champion in his youth makes a lot of sense when you look at him or read a description of him. He probably fought with Charms, repurposed non-combat magic you wouldn't normally think would be used for duels. Not to mention, an effect of his goblin ancestry is that he's just ''three feet tall''. Of ''course'' most adult wizards would have trouble beating him in a duel. As a highly intelligent Charms user, he probably thought outside the box in ways that most would-be duellists wouldn't see coming. But more importantly, his low profile probably made him ''much'' harder even to hit with a spell. In [[JustForPun short]], he's a master of the wizarding equivalent of ConfusionFu.

* When Harry sees Floo Powder for the first time, he's freaked out by it. Understandable given that it is fire that apparently consumes someone to ashes in seconds, but the real kicker? It is ''green'', and what is Harry's earliest memory? Seeing his mother die from the Killing Curse, which takes the form of a ''brilliant green light''.

* Of course spiders would flee before a basilisk. They see in all directions and can't close their eyes, so something that kills via eye contact would be particularly dangerous to them.

* Riddle engages in BondVillainStupidity when Harry enters the Chamber. He lets Harry think they're on the same side, confiscates his wand, and reveals that he is the real Heir of Slytherin. We find out that it's not because he's mentally a sixteen-year old on his way to advocating for genocide; it's that Voldemort simply likes to monologue and gloat. He's always been arrogant and smug that he couldn't get caught. Voldemort didn't learn from his mistakes in book two because this Tom Riddle was essentially a clone of him, created from the diary.   Not only that, but it's a copy of him as a teenager, rather than a fully-grown adult who might be expected to know better.

** Fortunately a bit of Brillians kicks in if you think about it. The Mandrakes aren't actually possessed of human like intelligence, they're simply mimicks that put on a facade of humanity to get humans guard down. And then the horror comes back around with the reality that this is so they can kill humans who will then fertilize the ground.

* The real reason Hermione is so annoyed with Harry and Ron for flying the car to Hogwarts? She is not known to have other friends at this point and may have had to be on her own the whole train ride.

** A Ford Anglia has no electronics.

** His [[ChickMagnet appeal]] to multiple female demographics. Middle-aged women tend to be most attracted to celebrities who have either [[SilverFox aged very gracefully]] or are still in their prime. Lockhart fits the latter bill. Conversely, teenaged girls' celebrity crushes tend to be a bit older than them, but not too much. Again, Lockhart fits the bill.

** If memory serves Professor Lupin mentions in future books that during his childhood the Wolfsbane Potion hadn't yet been invented and thus there was no cure for lycanthropy. It would seem that much like the rabies vaccine for muggles theres a lycanthropy potion brewed from Wolfsbane that, if administered in a timely manner, can cure the condition. Future books also show it being used to nesr perfectly control the psychological symptoms in older cases which are passed the point of curing entirely.