JKR's "small thing" in CoS

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No: HPFGUIDX 94487

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Snyder" <jasnyder at i...> wrote:
> Hello everyone...
> 
> There's something I'd been thinking about even before the release of
OotP,
> but when JKR said in the recent World Book Day chat that there was a
"small
> thing" she'd put in CoS that almost gave everything away, I was
reminded of
> it...I wonder if that small thing is the fact that Tom Riddle
doesn't seem
> to have any difficulty using Harry's wand.  Snip

My how many 'small things' there are to contemplate!

I've also been thinking about this too, especially the Chamber of
Secrets. We've two books to go both based on Harry's school years, so
in principal most of the action should take place at Hogwarts.
Although we've been introduced to other parts of the Wizard World, I
would argue that the School is Harry's home and the center of the
conflict.

It seems to me that this is getting harder for JKR to arrange, in OotP
she fudged it by making Voldy 'hide' and therefore postponed the war,
predicted at the end of GoF, for another year. If that ploy is out for
the next book how is she going to keep Harry at Hogwarts and stop him
from 'doing a Weasley', especially now Sirius is dead and the revenge
issue is unavoidable.

One possible solution is to revisit the Chamber as an area of yet more
undiscovered evil, a narrative gateway between Voldy and Harry based
in the 'heart' of the school. The sorting hat is certainly hinting
that the Salazar issue is unresolved so JKR could also pull all of the
epic threads together using the Chamber.

Is there something in CoS, or in the Chamber itself (confusing much)
that is small but significant and unresolved.

Finally (honest), two books one Chamber, how else is JKR going to fix
the action to Hogwarts?

Jo
Who thinks the books should have been called 'Hogwarts' because that's
the real heroic character.