Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

by J.K. Rowling

All three of Mrs. Weasley’s sons were taller than she was, but they cowered as her rage broke over them. “Beds empty! No note! Car gone — could have crashed — out of my mind with worry — did you care? — never, as long as I’ve lived — you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy —”

“I’m very pleased to see you, Harry, dear,” she said. “Come in and have some breakfast.”

“Ginny,” said Ron in an undertone to Harry. “My sister. She’s been talking about you all summer.” “Yeah, she’ll be wanting your autograph, Harry,” Fred said with a grin,

“Just Muggle-baiting,” sighed Mr. Weasley. “Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it. . . . Of course, it’s very hard to convict anyone because no Muggle would admit their key keeps shrinking — they’ll insist they just keep losing it.

I will be taking up the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!”

“Leave him alone, he didn’t want all that!” said Ginny. It was the first time she had spoken in front of Harry. She was glaring at Malfoy.

Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin.

After a while, there was a serious argument on the subject between Slytherin and Gryffindor, and Slytherin left the school.”

The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic.”

He opened it eagerly. On the first page he could just make out the name “T. M. Riddle” in smudged ink.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”