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Blog Prompt#1
Throughout the novel, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", there where many times when my reading changed. The novel threw many curve balls and many things happened that I was very surprised about. Harry Potter is a very interesting person in the book and his fiends, Hermione and Ron, are constantly going on crazy adventures. In the novel "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" there were many plot twists. The first plot twist in the novel involves Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Harry and Ron went to the train station to board the train to Hogwarts. The train to Hogwarts is on a special plat form, 9 and 3/4. In order for the wizards and witches to be able to board the train they have to go through a wall. The wall has a magic spell on it so that the wizards and witches can walk through the wall but the muggles can not. When Harry and Ron went to go through the barrier it had closed and instead of going through the wall they had crashed straight into the wall. This event threw a twist in the plot because instead of Harry and Ron getting on the train and going to Hogwarts like all the other kids they took Ron's dad's flying car. I expected Harry and Ron to be getting on the train and meeting their friends like in the last book but instead it added in another adventure to the novel and they didn't end up seeing their friends until later in the novel. There were characters introduced later in the book than I expected because Harry and Ron did not get on the train. Another event that put a twist in the plot was when we found out that Harry could talk to snakes. Almost the whole time Harry was at Hogwarts he could hear voices in the halls and throughout the castle that no one else could hear. I kept trying to figure out why he was the only person that could hear the voices and no one else could. When we found out that he could talk to and hear snakes it made sense why. It is a very rare thing for wizards to be able to talk to snakes and one of the only other wizards that could talk to snakes was Voldemort. This put a twist in the plot because at the time everyone was trying to figure out who the heir of Slytherin was and Voldemort was the most powerful wizard to come out of Slytherin. After finding out that Harry could talk to snakes many people thought that he was the heir of Slytherin, which threw a big twist in the plot.