Welcome, dearies! 🍁
Another Friday, another Flashback, this one for Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, book 2 of the Wizarding Saga.
To go along with the newest episode of the podcast: Ep. 2 of Season 3 of EachPage Flow, I decided to go back to The Chamber of Secrets, but there were two things I didn’t say on the podcast because they skipped my mind as I was rambling about the book.
Sorry, there is a lot on my mind.
You can check out the full episode below, I put it here because I’m nice like that. 🙂
So, the dueling club at Hogwarts started by Lockhart, and the introduction to the word ‘mudblood’ or how pure-blooded families see those born of Muggles but with the gift of magic like: Hermione Granger. These are the two things that I later thought, oh wait, I missed something.
Alright, first dueling.
The Dueling Club
“Scared, Potter?”
In The Chamber of Secrets, the dueling club was a moment where you were: wait, what? Harry can talk to snakes, so what?
To us, it was fine because we saw Harry talking to snakes in book 1.
Well, it turns out it is a big deal because Salazar Slytherin was also able to do this trick, and everyone begins to wonder if Harry is the Heir of Slytherin. And that kind of overshadowed with the dueling with Malfoy, or Lockhart vs Snape, and it shifted the focus towards Parseltongue.
Prejudice in the Wizarding World
Now, a little into the high class of the wizarding world, call it as it is, it is about people with centuries of wizardry and money versus those who are not like that. Well, the ‘pure-blooded’ families have one prejudice that we found out in book 2, and it is against those born of Muggle parents, meaning, the ‘Mudblood’, which became an ugly term thrown around to insult someone, and this is what Malfoy calls Hermione, and well, it becomes a whole thing because Harry discovers what it is and how some in the wizardry community sees people like Hermione. In any case, if you want to read the whole chapter, you can go to Chapter 7: Mudbloods and Murmurs of The Chamber of Secrets, pretty specific.
So, yeah, that is how it went down. I completely forgot about the mudblood thing, and for the Dueling Club, I was focused on the parsel tongue part in general and didn’t think of mention of how Harry discovered that talking to snakes is a thing for “dark wizards” and that Slytherin could speak, too.
And because life is fun, I had to know what would it be like to know the recreation of the description of the statue of Salazar Slytherin as Harry first saw it, check it out:
“Then, as Harry drew level with the last pair of pillars, a statue high as the Chamber itself loomed into view, standing against the back wall… It was ancient and monkeyish, with a long, thin beard that fell almost to the bottom of the wizard’s sweeping stone robes, where two enormous grey feet stood on the smooth Chamber floor.“
What do you think?
Did you read the book, did you imagine something similar? Let me know, or if you have any insights on the dueling club or the Mudbloods. Don’t forget to like, shared, and follow for more.
Thank you, dearies!
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