Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) on Netflix
PG20022h 41mAdventureFamilyFantasy
Dobby, a house-elf, appears to warn Harry Potter against going back to Hogwarts for his second year. Harry returns anyway, and a voice keeps coming from inside the school's walls.
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Harry Potter's summer with his aunt and uncle is interrupted when Dobby, a house-elf, warns him of danger at Hogwarts and wrecks a dinner with Uncle Vernon's client to keep him from returning. Ron Weasley and his brothers Fred and George pull up in their father's flying car and carry him off. In Diagon Alley, Harry and Hermione Granger meet Gilderoy Lockhart, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and run into Draco Malfoy and his father Lucius. Blocked from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Harry and Ron take the car to Hogwarts and hit the Whomping Willow, breaking Ron's wand. During detention he hears a strange voice and finds the caretaker's cat petrified beneath a warning written in blood about a chamber that only Salazar Slytherin's heir can open.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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- The giant spider Aragog stood 9 ft tall with an 18 ft leg span, each leg controlled by a different team member, and the whole creature weighed three quarters of a ton; it took over 15 people to operate the animatronic on set.
- Jason Isaacs gave Lucius Malfoy a whiny tone of voice based on that of the Child Catcher of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, whose voice had resonated with him throughout his childhood for the character scaring him; Isaacs also provided the voice of the Basilisk.
- When Shirley Henderson auditioned to play the 14-year-old Hogwarts ghost Moaning Myrtle she was 37 years old, but the casting director encouraged her to attend the audition anyway and keep her age a secret.
- Chamber of Secrets was Richard Harris's final live-action film; he died shortly before it was released, and Michael Gambon played Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban onwards.
- Hugh Grant was rumored to be the first choice to play Gilderoy Lockhart but reportedly could not due to scheduling conflicts with Two Weeks Notice, and Columbus later denied Grant had been considered; Alan Cumming and Rupert Everett were also considered, and Cumming backed out over a salary dispute.
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