Return to the Chamber of Secrets?

lily_paige_delaney lily_paige_delaney at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 14 21:38:00 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 82902

Is it just me or did we never actually find out what secrets were 
contained in the Chamber?  I mean I know it was home to the Basilisk 
but there must be something more to it than that.

While mulling this over the other day I went back to re-read the 
encounters between Harry and Riddle and something caught my eye 
which made me shiver a bit:

Ch 17 pg 236 - The Heir of Slytherin

"So ends the famous Harry Potter," said Riddle's distant 
voice "Alone in the Chamber of Secrets, forsaken by his friends, 
defeated at last by the Dark Lord he so unwisely challenged.  You'll 
be back with you dear Mudblood mother soon Harry...She bought you 
twelve years of borrowed time...but Lord Voldemort got you in the 
end, as you knew he must."

Now maybe its just Riddle getting carried away but I don't think 
Harry was forsaken by his friends, he didn't unwisely challenge the 
Dark Lord (just went to save Ginny) and book 2 Harry doesn't yet 
know that Lord Voldemort must get him in the end (or vice versa).

But...it gets a little creepy if you think about our post book 5 
Harry hearing that speech.  Is this a sign of things to come?  

LPD






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