Summary: Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 16-18

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Genevieve Pratt" <jheen at m...> wrote:

Very nice summaries!  How you were able to focus so well right now to 
write them, I don't know, but I appreciate having something fun to 
think about. 
> 
> 2)	At one point, Tom makes the comment that Harry was a lot like
> him. Do you agree or is he entirely commenting on them both being
> half-blood orphans?>

Both.  Harry and Tom are both eager to prove themselves, but they do 
it in different ways.  Tom was quite Hermione-ish, by getting the best 
grades.  Harry is desperate to be normal but also to be good.  I don't 
mean good as in well behaved; I mean good as in good vs evil.  When he 
went looking for Justin to explain what happened at the Dueling Club 
is a good example of that.  

I can't claim this as my idea so I won't but I like what others have 
said about JKR using Tom and Harry as two people who were raised with 
similar circumstances but who *chose* to take different paths.  
Choices really are everything.
> 
> 6)	We learn a lot about Voldemort in these few chapters. Did you
> find anything that could possibly make him out to be a little more 
human or does he still seem as pure evil as in book one?>

I don't feel that I know so much about Voldemort; I have learned, 
however, a good deal about Tom Riddle.  By the time Tom became 
Voldemort, I don't think I can consider him a human being anymore.  My 
feelings about the Big V didn't change after finding out more about 
him in CoS, but Tom Riddle is very interesting to me and is not as 
one-dimensional as Voldemort is, if that makes any sense.

--jenny from ravenclaw 

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