Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Second in the HP offering, I have a similar view to these as I do to the Lord of the Rings movies. I don't really view them as individual movies, but as some sort of long sequential movie. With Lord of the Rings that's actually closer to true than it is to false. It's not quite as true with HP, but still not too far off. It's been a couple years since I read the books, but I still remember my first impression of the first two movies being quite faithful to the books, choosing to leave out information rather than events. I actually like the ending of this episode better in movie form than I did when I read it. Because I read the first two books in rapid sequence I feared that the series was going to become a series of "oh no! Voldemort is back!" and they would find some new way of defeating him every book. Fortunately it doesn't. But I digress from my point about the ending. When I read the whole anagram thing from Tom Moldova Riddle to I am Lord Voldemort it seemed quite contrived, but for some reason seeing it in the movie made it a little easier to believe that Voldemort actually used to be named Tom Riddle and spent some insane number of hours sitting there thinking up an anagram of his name. I guess you need something to do during defense against the dark arts, since they never seem to have a teacher who actually teaches the class.

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