Chapter Eight: The Deathday Party
In chapter eight of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Wood continues to train the Gryffindors come rain, shine, or tornado, everyone’s sick including me, and our trio attends a very cool party that’s #CutForTime out of the movie.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
We open up with everyone sick, and I wish the Pepperup potion was real so I would just feel better already. Percy forces Ginny to drink some and I tick a column on the “Percy really does care” chart I keep in my head. #JusticeforPercy.
The Slytherin’s new brooms makes Wood practice his team even harder, and Harry runs into Nearly Headless Nick, who’s fuming over being turned down for the Headless Hunt again for not being practically decapitated, which is possibly one of the weirdest problems I’ve ever heard in my life, which of course makes me love it.
Harry gets caught by Filch traipsing in some mud and gets dragged to the Filch lair, a place that probably smells like cat, dandruff, chains, and lost humanity.
So Nick does his first solid for Harry and gets Peeves to distract Filch from punishing Harry with who knows what, especially after Harry spots the “Kwikspell” course Filch is paying for, and in return, Harry agrees to go to his Death Day Party.
Now I don’t know about you all, but I’m sad that not only can I not attend the oddness of a Death Day Party, the party a ghost apparently throws to celebrate the day they died, but that we also didn’t see it in Chamber of Secrets the movie. And yes, I’m one of those weirdos who would’ve watched a ten hour Harry Potter movie.
Moaning Myrtle makes her first appearance at this party, until Peeves chases her away like the pest he so often is, and our trio leave shortly thereafter to get some actual food that isn’t rotting when Harry hears the basilisk again. Following the murderous disembodied voice ends, as it so often does, badly, and our trio is caught next to a petrified Mrs. Norris and an ominous message on the wall. Filch freaks out and Malfoy, as usual, one ups himself with his bigotry.
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