Chapter Discussion Chamber of Secrets Ch. 8 The Deathday Party

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Chapter Discussion: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Chapter 8: The Deathday Party.


October comes with increasing colds among students and increasing Quidditch training sessions. While walking one of the Hogwarts corridors Harry meets Nearly Headless Nick, who is upset because his application to join the Headless hunt was denied, since they only accept headless horsemen. Nick warns Harry to be careful with Filch and not throw mud around. Alas, too late. Filch shows up with Mrs. Norris and Harry is forced to go to his office. Peeves shows up and Filch is chasing after him, while Harry has to wait. Harry is sitting on the chair at the Filch's desk, sees the envelope with beautiful writing and
 you guessed it, he reads it.

Turns out Filch is taking Kwikspell course, when Filch is back he asks Harry if he read the envelope and Harry answers no. Filch lets Harry go without any punishment. Nick is asking Harry if asking Peeves to help worked and Harry agrees that it did, that he did not even get detention. As return of the favor Harry agrees to go to Nick's Deathday party at Halloween where he will be celebrating 500th  anniversary of his death with other hosts.

By the time Halloween arrives Harry regrets that he promised to go, but he goes anyway with Ron and Hermione, after spending some time at the party and getting awfully bored they finally leave, and when they are coming back, Harry hears the voice, who says that it is time to kill and it smells blood and things along that line. He shares the discovery with Ron and Hermione who are quite shocked. Trio is even more shocked when they see the infamous writing on the wall about Chamber's opening and Enemies of the Heir. And of course Mrs. Norris is hanged and not moving. And this chapter closes with Draco Malfoy screaming `Enemies of the Heir beware"


1.	Nick warns Harry to be careful with dripping the mud around, but when I was rereading the chapter I realized that I cannot find any description of Harry doing just that, could somebody point me to it? 

2.	What was your first thought when you realized that Filch was taking Kwikspell course?


3.	 500th anniversary of Nick's death is one of the few dates (or is an only date?) that can help us place Harry Potter in time. And we debated the timeline many many times in the past. Do you feel that JKR made a wise decision to actually place it in time or would it have been better to let the reader place the action in time as they see fit and not give any definite dates in the book?

4.	Would you like to go to Deathday party?

5.	Obviously we know now that Draco was not Slytherin Heir, but what do you think was the reason for him saying that?

6.	Ginny is pale at the beginning of the chapter and Percy bullies her into taking the medicine. We find out later about the diary and Tom, but at this point, we don't know. Did Percy seem out of character in "bullying" her?

7.	Filch is a Squib as we know now and he is expected to clean up the messes that magical kids make all the time. Do you think it is too much to expect of him?


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