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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[CouldntFindAPen THE CHAMBER HAS BEEN OPENED.\
3	ENEMIES OF THE HEIR BEWARE.]]'']]
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5	->''"Now according to legend, Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in this castle, known as the Chamber of Secrets. Though shortly before departing, he sealed it... until that time when his own true heir returned to the school. The heir alone would be able to open the chamber and unleash the horror within, and by so doing, purge the school of all those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic."''
6	-->-- '''Professor Minerva [=McGonagall=]'''
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8	[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The last one]] with mostly [[ColorWash warm]] [[MoodLighting lighting]].
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10	''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' is the second film in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' film series, with Creator/ChrisColumbus returning as director for the second and last time. The film was released in 2002.
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12	The main plot involves the "Chamber of Secrets" being opened at Hogwarts, a hidden chamber built by Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of Hogwarts. A big fan of FantasticRacism, Slytherin built the Chamber to house a monster which can only be controlled by his heir and which is intended to attack all those Muggle-borns "unworthy to study magic." Now, someone has opened the Chamber, implying the Heir of Slytherin has returned to Hogwarts, but who is it?
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14	The tone is very similar to that of the previous movie, and other highlights include its high faithfulness to the book and Creator/KennethBranagh's inspired turn as Gilderoy Lockhart.
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16	Followed by Harry's third year at Hogwarts, in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''.
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18	!!''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' contains examples of:
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20	* ActionizedAdaptation:
21	** Harry and Ron's trip to Hogwarts in the flying car. Whilst the journey is smooth save for being spotted in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets the book]], the film features the car nearly getting hit by the train and Harry almost falling out.
22	** The Quidditch match. In the book, directly after Harry's arm is broken by the rogue bludger, he spots the Golden Snitch near Draco, dives for it and catches it, and that's the end of it (this moment is supposed to illustrate Draco's lack of talent compared to Harry, since the Snitch is within arm's reach of him). Since that wouldn't translate to film well, Harry spots the Snitch, chases after it... but Draco manages to keep up, turning it into a race - through a tight series of wooden beams at high speeds, at that - before the arm breaking and Snitch catching occurs.
23	** Similarly, the Chamber of Secrets climax is given a big blockbuster treatment, with Harry duelling and evading the basilisk all over the chamber.
24	* AdaptationalContextChange:
25	** In the opening scene at the Dursley house, it's shown that Harry no longer sleeps in the cupboard under the stairs and has moved into Dudley's second bedroom. In the ''Philosopher's Stone'' book, Vernon moved Harry into this room in an attempt to keep him from receiving his Hogwarts letter, which was specifically addressed to the cupboard, but this scene was omitted from [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone the previous film]]. In this film, Vernon implies that Harry moved into the room during the summer between films.
26	** The scene where Draco calls Hermione a Mudblood and the subsequent explanation of the term is played for far more drama in the film version. In the book Hermione doesn't know what the word means and the scene is an explanation of the general prejudice pure blood wizards have against Muggle borns. In the film, Hermione already knows what the word means.
27	* AdaptationalDumbass:
28	** In the original book, the Trio left the potion-laced cupcakes for Crabbe and Goyle on a random banister -- it's not exactly smart to eat food you just found lying around, but it's nothing next to eating food you find just ''floating suspiciously around in the air'', which is where the Trio left their bait in the film.
29	--->'''Ron:''' [[LampshadeHanging How thick could you get?!]]
30	** Unlike in the book. There's no indication or rule that establishes that [[spoiler:Tom Riddle can't pick up his own diary and keep it away from Harry, thus you'd expect him to keep his one weakness safe and let Harry get poisoned to death. Instead, he just leaves it on the ground for Harry to destroy it and ruin his evil scheme]].
31	** Lucius Malfoy attempts to [[spoiler:cast the killing curse on Harry ''right outside of Dumbledore's office'']]. Blame Creator/JasonIsaacs for that one: when they filmed the scene, he [[ThrowItIn ad-libbed]] the first spell that came to his mind, and the books were only up to ''Goblet of Fire'' at the time.
32	* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
33	** Snape's rant at Harry and Ron after they crash into the Whomping Willow comes across as AngerBornOfWorry, whereas in the book he was gloating about their possible expulsion.
34	** Lockhart also defends Harry against Snape's insinuations when Snape points out that Harry was absent from dinner the night Mrs Norris was petrified. Lockhart notes Harry was actually in detention with him, providing him an alibi. In the book the reason he'd missed dinner was because he was at Nearly-Headless Nick's deathday party (an event which was omitted in the film). Lockhart also makes some effort to make his classes engaging rather than just using them as a plug for his books, he earnestly wishes Harry good luck as he takes the stage to duel Draco, and seems to show genuine concern when Harry's arm is broken rather than just showing off his healing abilities to the onlookers.
35	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange:
36	** Tom Riddle's reaction throughout the fight in the film was significantly calmer compared to the book. In the film, outside of yelling "No!" in shock and stating that the Basilisk can still use its other senses, he does not react in any way to the Basilisk missing Harry. In the book, Tom Riddle is repeatedly yelling at the Basilisk to smell Harry when it is repeatedly missing Harry in their fight.
37	** After waking up in the Chamber, Ginny is also much calmer than in the book, in which she wept and stuttered as she explained to Harry that Riddle made her do it. Her calmer delivery of those lines in the film can be read as her being in a state of numb shock, so it's possible that she was still traumatized like in the book.
38	* AdaptationalWimp: In the book, Ron (reluctantly) and Harry look around for spiders and then when entering the forest, Ron is brave. In the film, Ron is completely scared and reluctant to go into the forest and follow spiders (possibly because Creator/RupertGrint's arachnophobia made him scared for real). That said, Ron in the film is much calmer ''after'' the ordeal than [[StressVomit book]] [[ThousandYardStare Ron]] was.
39	* AdaptationDistillation:
40	** In the book, Harry first hears the Basilisk's voice during detention with Lockhart, and then at a later date as he's leaving Nearly-Headless-Nick's Deathday party he hears it again and follows it to the scene of the first attack. In the film these things both happen on the same evening, and the Deathday party is omitted.
41	** In the novel, the book containing information on Polyjuice potion is in the restricted section of the library, requiring a signed permission form from a teacher to access. This complication is avoided in the film as it's just in the regular section of the library.
42	* AdaptationExpansion: The movie has a PostCreditsScene (the only HP movie to have one), showing [[spoiler:Flourish and Blotts bookstore in Diagon Alley promoting Lockhart's last book, a ghostwritten autobiography called ''Who Am I?'']].
43	* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Has [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication/HarryPotter its own page]].
44	* AdaptationInducedPlothole: Has [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole/HarryPotter its own page]].
45	* AdaptationalExplanation: In the book, there's no clear reason as to why Harry couldn't just use parseltongue to convince the Basilisk not to attack him. In the film, [[spoiler:Riddle's memory]] tells him that the Basilisk [[UndyingLoyalty only obeys Slytherin's true heir]], meaning Harry couldn't command her even if he tried.
46	* AdaptedOut:
47	** Cuthbert Binns does not appear in the movie. His explanation about the history of the Chamber of Secrets is instead given by [=McGonagall=].
48	** The most significant story beats cut from the movie are the de-gnoming of the Weasleys' garden, Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party, and Lockhart's Valentine's Day celebration, with the post-Chamber exposition scene being significantly trimmed. The deathday party got to the concept art stage before they decided to exclude it.
49	* AlwaysABiggerFish: Lucius Malfoy's first appearance (second in the extended cut). Draco jeers at Harry and Ginny, until his father appears, who appears to reprimand Draco only to then openly confront Harry, Hermione and Arthur Weasley himself. Lucius really ''is'' the bigger fish, as while Draco is just Harry's school rival, Lucius is the one who [[spoiler:instigates the terror at Hogwarts by secretly slipping Riddle's diary to Ginny, and then blackmails the governors into suspending Dumbledore.]]
50	* AngerBornOfWorry: Unlike the book, where Snape was [[SadistTeacher gloating at Harry and Ron and threatening them with expulsion]], [[AdaptationalHeroism Alan Rickman's]] delivery sounds more like this trope. He lists every reason to be mad at the boys such as exposure of the wizarding world and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the damage they allegedly wrought on the Whomping Willow]]. However, he comes off rather distraught and almost resembles a worried parent (even the expulsion threat sounds more like YouAreGrounded than the EvilGloating in the book). After Ron points out that he and Harry suffered more damage than the Willow, Snape angrily snaps at him and everything but [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial his words]] confirms that this was his major concern.
51	* ArtisticLicenceBiology: The basilisk has a solid, fixed jawbone, bumpy scales as opposed to overlapping ones, eyelids that allow it to blink, ear openings on each side of its head, (giving a bit more sense to the basilisk being able to hear Harry's movements when snakes are traditionally considered deaf) multiple pointed teeth on both upper and lower jaws and a non-forked tongue: basically, every single feature that would distinguish a ''legless lizard'' from a true snake.
52	* AscendedExtra: Ginny gets a much larger role in this one than in the first film, with her being [[spoiler:the one who was brainwashed by Tom Riddle into opening the titular Chamber. Even so, her role is mostly behind the scenes, and she doesn't actually appear onscreen all that much.]]
53	* BadassLongrobe: Interestingly, this is the '''only''' film where Harry keeps wearing his Hogwarts robes in the climax.
54	* BaitAndSwitchComment:
55	** When Ron is belching slugs, Hagrid says "This calls for specialist equipment". He then produces an ordinary bucket.
56	** At the end, with Harry and Ron in Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore is telling them he could expel them for the sheer number of rules violations they committed in saving Ginny's life and defeating the person who had been petrifying students all year long.
57	---> Therefore it is only fitting that you both receive --''{{Beat}}'' -- special awards for services to the school.
58	* BatmanGambit: Harry's ploy to trick Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby is pretty simple: he counts on him handing off the diary to Dobby, who'll then see the sock inside.
59	* {{Biography}}: Supposedly ''Who Am I?'' by Gilderoy Lockhart (or, since it's about the author, an autobiography).
60	* BigYes: Dean Thomas literally had the last line of the film and yells a good one while celebrating with Harry and his friends.
61	-->'''Dean Thomas:''' Yeah! '''YES!!!'''
62	* BlatantLies: Uncle Vernon comes up with a slew of these in the first act, the first one being the most interesting, since it's a DoubleSubversion: When Dobby starts to punish himself by banging his head on the side of the cabinet, the sound of his grunting and head hitting the furniture echoes to the living room where Vernon, Dudley, Petunia, and the Masons can hear it. Uncle Vernon, not knowing there is a house-elf, tries to cover for his nephew by stating that it's "just the cat".
63	* BodyHorror: During a Transfiguration lesson, the students are supposed to turn animals into water goblets. When Ron tries it with Scabbers the rat turns into a goblet... that's squeaking, furry and has a tail. [[spoiler:Not only that, but Scabbers is actually Peter Pettigrew in his Animagus form]].
64	* ButtMonkey: Neville lampshades this trope after getting hung on a chandelier by Cornish pixies, asking, "Why is it always me?"
65	* CallBack:
66	** The OST's final track is called "Harry's Wondrous World," as was the second track on the previous film's OST.
67	** As they're following the spiders into the forest Ron says "I don't like this...I don't like this at all", repeating Hermione's line from the first film when they first entered the chamber with the giant Wizard's Chess set.
68	* ChekhovsGun: For the film series, the incantation ''Avada Kedavra'' becomes one due to Lucius's near-use of it, since it's only properly introduced in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]''.
69	* CollateralDamage: Discussed. Ron offers to shoot down the rogue bludger, but Hermione tells him no; even if Ron had a wand that was working properly, he could hit Harry.
70	* CouldntFindAPen: Hermione notes that "THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE" is written in blood. In the book Riddle quotes Ginny's diary as mentioning her being covered in "paint" after the attack on Mrs. Norris, but that might have been [[InnocentInaccurate naïvety on her part]].
71	* CoverIdentityAnomaly: In ''Chamber of Secrets'', Harry forgets to take off his glasses when polyjuiced as Goyle. He quickly excuses them as reading glasses, causing Malfoy to remark that he didn't know "Goyle" knew how to read.
72	* DeadHandShot: The flashback of Tom Riddle shows a hand hanging from a corpse on a barrow, carried by four unnamed medic wizards down a stairway. [[spoiler:We later learn that the dead girl is the very girl whose ghost haunts the ladies' room in the second floor, and that she was killed by the basilisk on the orders of none other than Tom Riddle himself.]]
73	* DeathByAdaptation: Happens to the rogue bludger; Fred and George wrestle it back into the crate in the book but here, Hermione shoots it to pieces.
74	* DeathlyDiesIrae: Heard as Harry and Ron are desperately trying to escape the Forbidden Forest while Aragog's spider children are closing in on them.
75	* DecompositeCharacter:
76	** In the book, Uncle Vernon tells a man to fit the bars on Harry's window, but in the film, Uncle Vernon fits the bars on Harry's window himself.
77	** In the film, it is Professor [=McGonagall=] who tells the class about the history of the Chamber of Secrets instead of Professor Binns.
78	* DemotedToExtra:
79	** Ernie Macmillan's role is diminished to a non-speaking part. The part where he and Hannah Abbott talk in the library about their theory of Harry wanting to attack Justin Finch-Fletchley was cut, but appears on the deleted scenes, however in the Study Hall. Also, Ernie is the one who blames Harry for attacking Justin when he is discovered, petrified, but in the film, Argus Filch finds Harry and wants to expel him. And in the book, it was Peeves who found him, and sung his funny song.
80	** Penelope Clearwater is eliminated as a victim of the basilisk, but she has a cameo earlier in the film in which she's seen walking next to Percy and identified as "Miss Clearwater." Notably, the book had a whole subplot about Percy and Penelope secretly dating, setting up Percy as a RedHerring, but in the film, it appears [[AdaptationalSecrecyDowngrade they're just open about their relationship]].
81	* DisproportionateRetribution: After Harry tricks Lucius into giving Dobby a sock by accident, Lucius tries to attack Harry before getting blasted by Dobby before doing anything. In the movie, he goes for his wand and manages to get out an ''"Avada..."'' before he's blasted. ''"Avada"'' is the first part of ''"Avada Kedavra"'', the Killing Curse. Killing Harry in broad daylight in front of Dumbledore's office probably isn't the best course of action... {{Word of God}}[[invoked]] states that the script didn't specify a curse for that scene, so Jason Isaacs [[ThrowItIn just ad-libbed the first one that came to mind]].[[note]]Some fans have tried to theorize that perhaps Lucius was trying to kill Dobby, not Harry[[/note]] The closed captioning was changed to make Lucius say something like "Vera-"
82	* DistressedDrinkJitters: When Harry and Ron visit Hagrid just before he's arrested by Fudge, Hagrid first greets them with a loaded crossbow, and then when he tries to pour tea for them, his hands are clearly shaky and he overfills one of the cups.
83	* TheDogBitesBack: After Harry causes Lucius to lose Dobby, Malfoy starts to cast the Killing Curse on Harry, ignoring Dobby. Dobby, who probably suffered abuse from the whole Malfoy family, promptly knocks him on his ass with a snap of the fingers.
84	* DramaticCurtainToss: Lockhart reveals the Cornish Pixies by whipping a cloth from their cage, just as he says "I must ask you not to scream, it might PROVOKE THEM!"
85	* DrivesLikeCrazy: As soon as Ron, Harry, and Hedwig realize that the Hogwarts Express is coming up fast right behind them (they're in the Flying Ford Anglia), this somehow causes Ron to start driving recklessly and making the car do side-flips.
86	* DutchAngle: This shot is used quite a lot in the climactic sequence with Harry, Riddle, and the Basilisk in the underground chamber.
87	* EpicRocking: The last three tracks on the OST are ''just'' five minutes long.
88	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Riddle looks genuinely saddened when the Basilisk is killed]].
89	* EyeScream: During Harry's battle with the basilisk, Fawkes shows up to gouge out his eyes so it can't petrify and kill Harry.
90	* FailedASpotCheck: As Ron and Harry were visiting with Hermione in the infirmary after she had been petrified, Harry notices a piece of paper in her cupped hand. In it was a description of the basilisk that had been petrifying other students and even how Hermione believed it had been moving though the school--through the pipes. How the teachers had missed this was unconscionable. At least in the book, the paper was just barely sticking out of her fist and it took a few minutes to get it out without tearing the paper.
91	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
92	** Done extremely well, and is so subtle that many fans who consider this their favourite movie don't notice it until it is pointed out to them. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are discussing how they can use Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Crabbe and Goyle (which will allow them to get information out of Draco). They are doing this in order to find out if Draco is the Heir of Slytherin. Afterwards, Hermione goes to the library and gets a book called "Most Potente Potions". To the right of the book she is reaching for is another book with only the word "TOM" written on the spine. Why do they need to make Polyjuice Potion? To find out if Malfoy is the Heir of Slytherin. Who is the true Heir of Slytherin? Lord Voldemort, also known as ''Tom'' Riddle. Bonus point: The book with "TOM" on the spine is the ''second'' book to the right of the one Hermione is getting, and Voldemort considers Tom Riddle to be his secondary, lesser identity since he became Voldemort.
93	** Voldemort's theme from the first film plays at various points in the film foreshadowing his involvement.
94	** The tone of the film getting DarkerAndEdgier was already referenced in the main title, where, after the crescendo in "Hedwig's Theme" during the approach of the Warner Brothers logo, as the Harry Potter logo is revealed the theme reaches a brand new, quieter arrangement, that is quite foreboding and ominous compared to the existing arrangements from the previous film. The "and the Chamber of Secrets" subtitle is also revealed at the moment the bass strings enter.
95	** Unlike in the book, Lockhart refers to the Bandon Banshee as "him." Given Banshees are female spirits, this is an early clue he is a fraud.
96	** A FreezeFrameBonus when Lucius returns Ginny's book: [[spoiler:If you look closely, you can see him slip two books into her cauldron instead of one.]]
97	** At the end of the film, after Harry tricks Lucius into freeing Dobby, and Dobby defends Harry from Lucius attacking him, Dobby asks how he can repay him for freeing him. Harry responds ''Just promise me something. Never try to save my life again.'' [[spoiler:Its not until several movies later in Deathly Hallows Part 1, Dobby does just that, but at the cost of his own life.]]
98	* FoulMedicine: After Lockhart accidentally removes all the bones from Harry's arm, Madam Pomfrey gives him a bottle of Skele-Gro to make them grow back. Harry takes a swig and instantly spits it out, prompting Pomfrey to snap, "Well, what did you expect? Pumpkin juice!?".
99	* FullNameUltimatum: The Howler Ron's mother sends him begins with one '''''"RONALD WEASLEY!"'''''
100	* GenderFlip: Here, Lockhart refers to the Brandon Banshee as being male when it was female in the book and banshees are AlwaysFemale in mythology, [[spoiler:foreshadowing the reveal that he is a fraud]].
101	* GiantSpider: The Acromantulas, to the scale that the BBFC actually considered this a trigger for arachnophobes and included it in the content description. The DVD has a little game where you flee from them: fail [[NightmareFuel and...]]
102	* GreetingGestureConfusion: At the end of the film, Hermione hugs Harry right away but has an awkward hesitation with Ron that turns into a handshake.
103	* HandWave: Many book readers wondered why Harry didn't use his ability to speak parseltongue to control the basilisk himself. Here, [[spoiler:Riddle]] tells Harry that the serpent will only obey himself and Harry's ability is useless.
104	* {{Homage}}: Creator/ChrisColumbus shot the scene with Harry climbing onto Salazar Slytherin's head as an homage to the climax of ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', where the main characters climb onto one the heads of the famous Mount Rushmore.
105	* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: "Maybe we should just go and wait by the car." "''The car''..."
106	* IllKillYou: Filch after Mrs. Norris gets petrified.
107	--> '''Mr. Filch:''' [[TranquilFury I'll kill ya.]] [beat] [[BerserkButton I'LL KILL YA!]]
108	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Dobby asks Harry why he wants to go back to Hogwarts when his friends won't even write to him, something Harry didn't mention and makes him realize that Dobby has his letters.
109	* LargeHam: ''Gilderoy Lockhart.'' You have to admire a man who installs, at the front of his classroom, a painting of himself in Renaissance costume, ''painting a self-portrait''. Creator/KennethBranagh is clearly having a blast.
110	* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: Gilderoy Lockhart does this with his Bandon Banshee joke. (In the book, it just says "He waited for them to laugh; a few people smiled weakly.")
111	* LiteralCliffHanger: Harry has one of these. Not necessarily from a cliff, but from the passenger seat of the flying Ford Anglia.
112	** Above the Hogwarts Express on the train tracks, no less.
113	* LoopholeAbuse: Only tenuously can Lucius be said to have given Dobby clothes.
114	* LostPropertyLiveDrop: The events that lead to [[LivingMemory Tom Riddle's diary]] being planted on [[spoiler: Ginny Weasley]] proceed slightly differently than they did in the original novel: here, instead of just slipping the diary into the recipient's cauldron while nobody's looking, [[spoiler: Lucius Malfoy]] briefly removes one of the schoolbooks under the pretense of wanting to take a look at it. Then, once he's finished, he returns the textbook - which really ''is'' the recipient's property - though [[FreezeFrameBonus sharp-eyed viewers]] will notice that he returns another book alongside it.
115	* MatchingBadGuyVehicles: Harry and the Gryffindor Quidditch team all have their own brooms. The Slytherin team, on the other hand, are all equipped with shiny black Nimbus 2001 brooms, as Lucius bought them to bribe the team into taking Draco on as their Seeker.
116	* MonochromePast: The flashback to fifty years ago, as presented in Riddle's diary, is shot in a sepia tone. This winds up combining with SplashOfColour as Harry is still in colour with a bright red sweater on.
117	* MoodSwinger: Once Harry arrives at the Burrow, Molly switches back and forth between scolding her three sons to welcoming Harry to her home.
118	* MoodWhiplash: In the hospital wing Harry hears the Basilisk's menacing voice again, then his eye falls on Dobby who cheerfully says "Hello!".
119	* MusicalSpoiler: When Harry converses with Tom Riddle's diary, [[spoiler:Voldemort's theme from the first film plays foreshadowing the reveal that Tom Riddle is a young Voldemort.]]
120	* NearMissGroinAttack: After the Quidditch match in which Harry has been targeted by a rogue Bludger, Harry ends up on the floor with a broken arm, dodging the Bludger as it keeps coming for him. It hits the ground to one side of him, then the other, then between his legs as he dodges.
121	* NeverLearnedToRead: Goyle, if Draco Malfoy is to be believed, although he might have just been insulting his intelligence.
122	* NotEnoughToBury: DefiedTrope, Snape explains this is why it's a terrible idea to have Harry & Ron duel together, as Ron's wand was broken.
123	-->'''Severus Snape:''' "Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox."
124	* OhCrap:
125	** Hedwig's expression at seeing the train coming up behind the car.
126	** Harry and Ron when they realise they are surrounded by giant spiders.
127	** PlayedForDrama in [[spoiler:the Chamber of Secrets, when Harry realizes that Tom is a bit ''too'' calm about a basilisk coming for them. Then Tom reveals that he was Lord Voldemort, and the Heir of Slytherin to boot. Harry's expression shows ThisIsGonnaSuck]].
128	** [[spoiler:Riddle's expression when he finally comprehends that Harry is about to destroy the diary]].
129	** [[spoiler:After Lockhart out gambits Ron and Harry and takes the former's wand. The two look genuinely terrified as he threatens to wipe both their minds for dragging him into the chamber.....[[EpicFail then, forgetting that Ron's wand is broken, he backfires the spell onto himself by mistake]].]]
130	** Colin Creevey when he tries to take pictures of Harry during the Quidditch match and is forced to duck when the rogue Bludger comes right at his head.
131	* PacifiedAdaptation:
132	** In the book, Harry and the Weasleys' confrontation with the Malfoys at Flourish and Blotts escalated to a physical fight between Arthur and Lucius, which was broken up by Hagrid. In the film, no such fight occurs.
133	** After Draco calls Hermione a mudblood, the other members of the Gryffindor team don't attack him as they do in the book. Only Ron's botched slug spell is kept.
134	* PetTheDog:
135	** Snape tells Filch that Harry and his friends couldn't have cursed Mrs. Norris because that's advanced Dark Magic, and says that they must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
136	** Gilderoy Lockhart also provides an alibi for Harry by pointing out that he was in detention with him at the time and therefore can't be responsible.
137	* PoseOfSilence: Harry, Ron, and Hermione discuss their secret plan which will "break about fifty school rules" while walking down a corridor crowded with students. The only reason they aren't overheard is that they are leaning closely toward each other. In the book, they talk about it in private.
138	* PragmaticAdaptation: Instead of putting Tom Riddle's diary into the sock when giving it to Lucius Malfoy like in the book, Harry hides the sock inside the book. Comes off as far less silly and also not as careless on Malfoy's part as in the books, where he just threw the sock away even though he knew of the clothing rule.
139	* PragmaticHero: Harry and Ron attempt to convince Lockhart to help find Ginny in the Chamber. After finding out he is a fraud and has every intention of leaving her to her fate, they resort to plan B of dragging him there by wand point as a human shield. Lockhart retaliates and accidentally disposes of himself before they can test that strategy against the basilisk or giant spiders, though they make bluntly clear beforehand that it's better him than them.
140	* PunnyName: The silly name of "Diagon Alley" is the reason why Harry winds up in Borgin and Burke's Dark Arts magic shop in Knockturn Alley--he gets sent there after he poorly enunciates "Diagon Alley" as "diagonally." (In the book it's merely a matter of Harry getting a mouthful of fireplace dust.)
141	* RecycledSoundtrack: Most of the music is carried over from the first movie, due to John Williams's intense workload (four films in 2002 were scored by Williams[[note]]''Attack of the Clones'', ''Minority Report'', ''Catch Me If You Can'', and this film)[[/note]], who took a much-needed year off afterward; ''Azkaban'' was his first movie coming off hiatus).
142	* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:Lucius sneaking Riddle's diary into Ginny's bag]] is much more visible on later viewings.
143	%%* SchmuckBait: When Harry touches the HandOfGlory in Borgin and Burkes.
144	* ShadowDiscretionShot: Used when Fawkes takes out the basilisk's eyes. Justified as Harry was trying to avoid looking the basilisk in the eyes, avoiding being petrified.
145	* ShoutOut: A rather stealthy one to ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', the scene where Ron tries to warn Harry about the surrounding spiders mirrors the same scene where Marv tries to warn Harry about the Pigeons preparing to attack them. Bonus points for not only having both characters say the name "Harry" in a similar nervous tone, as well as both movies being sequels to their respective firsts, and finally all four movies being directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus.
146	* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification: The film is largely a Type 4 (Near Identical Adaptation) and is very close to the book in content.
147	* SlowClap: At the end of the movie, as (almost) everyone cheers [[spoiler:the return of Hagrid and Harry's heroic deeds]]. Except for Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and a number of their Slytherin posse, and, of course, Snape. When Crabbe starts to cluelessly join in but Malfoy grabs him and sits him back down.
148	* SplashOfColour: Harry in the flashback, wearing a bright red sweater in the midst of the [[MonochromePast sepia-toned flashback]].
149	* StealthInsult: Professor [=McGonagall=] to Professor Lockhart: "Your skills, after all, are ''legend.''"
150	* TheStinger: An additional scene appears after the end credits, depicting Lockhart's newest book, ''Who Am I?'' This is the only film to have a scene occur after the end credits, if you do not count the next film's small Nox spell by Harry that turns out the light.
151	* SuddenlyShouting: Twice.
152	** Lockhart, when "teaching" about Cornish Pixies as he unleashes them on the class.
153	--->'''Lockhart:''' It might ''[[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable PROV]]''OKE THEM!
154	** Lucius, when [[spoiler:Dobby is freed]].
155	--->'''Mr. Malfoy''': "[[spoiler:You lost me my '''''SERVANT!!!''''']]"
156	* TakingYouWithMe: In this version, [[spoiler:Harry destroys the diary as he is dying from the Basilisk venom, ''then'' Fawkes heals him.]]
157	* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Harry hits one of the pixies with a book who grabs Hermione by the hair.
158	* TimeshiftedActor: Young Hagrid was played by Martin Bayfield, who stood in for Creator/RobbieColtrane as his height double in all of the Potter movies. His voice was dubbed by Coltrane for the sake of consistency.
159	* TooDumbToLive: Unsurprisingly, Crabbe and Goyle who eat the ''floating cupcakes'' enchanted with Hermione's sleeping spell without a second thought. Ron is quick to comment on how ridiculously easy that trap was.
160	* TookALevelInBadass: Dobby once he's set free.
161	--> "You shall not harm Harry Potter!"
162	* TruerToTheText: Among the ''Harry Potter'' films, this is easily the most accurate adaptation of the source material, with most of the major changes being holdovers from the previous film (e.g. [=McGonagall=] explaining the rumour about the Chamber due to Binns being written out). Although the second book is a bit longer than the first, it has a less episodic plot structure, which allows for a more straightforward film adaptation.
163	* VocalEvolution:
164	** Aside from Creator/MatthewLewis (Neville), Creator/AlfieEnoch (Dean), and Creator/HarryMelling (Dudley), all of the regular male child actors' voices broke before filming started and sound much deeper than in the first film.
165	** Richard Harris was dying from lymphoma, and you can tell because Dumbledore sounds a lot quieter and shakier. He clearly wasn't long for this world as he would pass away the same year that the film was released.
166	* VoicesAreMental: Unlike in the book, the Trio keep their own voices when using Polyjuice Potion, instead of having the voices of the people they transformed into.
167	--> '''Ron, as Crabbe:''' Bloody hell!\
168	'''Harry, as Goyle:''' We still sound like ourselves. You need to sound more like Crabbe.\
169	'''Ron:''' Uh... ''(puts on a deep voice) Bloody hell.''\
170	'''Harry:''' Excellent.
171	----
172	->'''Lucius:''' Well... let us hope that Mr. Potter will always be around to save the day.\

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