#ooh almost forgot about Guy Fawkes night too

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

CHAPTER TWELVE: The Polyjuice Potion

I wonder if anyone has ever tried on the hat after being sorted into their houses, like Harry does in this moment

Oh do you think Dumbledore tries on the hat when he wants someone to talk to lol

I like how the hat teases Harry with: I stand by what I said earlier… about the Slytherin thing

‘Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore’s pet bird to die while he was alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.’ LOL poor Harry

I remember reading about the dying Fawkes just bursting into flame for no apparent reason and I thought it was just a joke and not an actual mythical creature, because that came out of nowhere lol

‘It was quite as ugly as the old one.’ Stop shaming the bird Harry, it just died/was born

Is Dumbledore going to put Fawkes back on the pedestal or is he just going to lay there in his ashes on the floor

I like this Hagrid scene, it was good timing. Also the fact that Hagrid’s got Harry’s back one hundred percent… Remember that for later Harry, just saying

OHHH YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST REALISED? I always assumed he didn’t think it was Harry who attacked Justin, because he just knew it wasn’t Harry, because Harry is the good guy. Maybe the fact that Hagrid had just met him before the body was found also helped. Most importantly though, especially after hearing that Harry’s a parselmouth, I think he assumed Harry was being controlled by Voldemort! So when he said ‘I know it wasn’t you’ he basically meant ‘I know you were being controlled by Voldemort somehow and it isn’t your fault’, because what other explanation is there? There isn’t really an explanation for why Harry should be a parselmouth other than the fact that it might have something to do with Voldemort’s mysterious disappearance the night he tried to kill Harry. So instead of straight up asking Harry if he was being controlled, because he still isn’t too sure, he just asked him if there was anything Harry wanted to tell him, in the hopes of getting a clue as to how Voldemort is getting away with this

OH what if he thought Voldemort was straight up inhabiting his body? Especially after Quirrell was killed, Harry was right there, maybe Dumbledore thinks Harry’s like, unintentionally hosting him or something… I mean he’s not wrong, it’s just in this situation that he’s wrong

Or maybe he just straight up wants to know if Harry has more information than he does, considering last year and his success with the philosopher’s stone

I’m not surprised that Fred and George found that people thinking that Harry was Slytherin’s heir was funny

I’ll bet Ginny didn’t find it amusing

Why did Draco look increasingly sour each time he saw Fred and George making fun of Slytherin’s heir? Was it because the suggestion of Harry being Slytherin’s heir was ludicrous? Or was it because he too thought that Harry was the heir? Or was it because, yet again, Harry is the center of attention? Probably the last one

It must be really cool to have Gryffindor tower all to yourselves

How do presents get delivered otherwise? I mean, from Hermione, or Mrs. Weasley or whoever? Did Hermione send them by owl last time? Did she sneak into the dormitories to deliver them? Also how come we never hear what Harry’s given anyone? Does he just not give anyone gifts for Christmas? Shame!

How did the Dursleys send Harry a gift??? Not by owl, did they? Maybe Hedwig pestered them until they did, which is why he only got a toothpick

Oh yeah, they were about to break more rules, I almost forgot

‘Harry and Ron had barely finished their third helpings of Christmas pudding when Hermione ushered them out of the Hall.’ Lol

Hermione has to think of everything lol TGFH

Just put them in a broom cupboard lol, easy-peasy

Ooh there’s a grammatical error in this book: ‘Much the most difficult bit was hiding them in the cupboard across the hall.’

I wonder what Crabbe and Goyle thought happened to them, when they woke up in a broom cupboard

Was there no smoke coming out of the girl’s bathroom then? Someone would’ve seen it for sure, and it would have been especially suspicious if it was coming out of the out-of-order bathroom

Honestly the fact that they managed to pull this off is astounding. Three twelve-year-olds worked together to make a really advanced potion, tried it, two out of three succeeded in impersonating two people, they managed to find the information they needed and they managed to escape in time. Of course it sucks that Hermione got turned into a cat now, but I guess there had to be some flaws in the plan.

OH MY GOSH I JUST REALISED THAT THE RAVENCLAW GIRL WAS PENELOPE CLEARWATER! She and Percy were down in the dungeons gettin busy! I knew why he was there earlier when I first read the book, because we find out later that he was meeting Ms. Clearwater, but I didn’t know they actually bumped into her coming out of that entrance way when they were trying to find the Slytherin common room… that’s WILD

Malfoy noticed that Percy had been sneaking around a lot and nobody else did, granted, he didn’t get the reason why correct

Oh dear poor Mr. Weasley

Also, I just realised that they carried out their Polyjuice Plan on Christmas Day

Lol Malfoy just wants to be Harry’s friend so bad

He also is annoyed that everyone thinks that Harry was Slytherin’s heir, so I guess one out of three guesses I made earlier were right

At least they got to find out that it was fifty years ago, and also that it was before Lucius Malfoy’s time

‘Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backwards.’ lol poor Goyle

Also Azkaban! Coming soon to a tumblr blog near you!

Ok but at this point, only about a half hour has passed I would say: They spent five minutes in the bathroom, fifteen minutes looking for the common room, then they bumped into Percy, and then Malfoy, who made them wait for a bit while he showed them stuff, so i’d say that took roughly ten to fifteen minutes maybe? That adds up to around thirty to forty minutes, forty-five minutes at best. So it’s too soon for Ron to be turning back, is my point.

Also Ron immediately finding out about Malfoy’s secret drawing-room room lol ‘Ho!’

Haha I like that addition that they heard a muffled pounding from the broom cupboard in which they locked up Crabbe and Goyle

Aw they left their shoes back for them lol

I just realised, it’s like a weird reverse Cinderella

Lol Madam Pomfrey never asks too many questions because she knows too much already probably

MYRTLE STOP TEASING HER

Chapter 13