Tuesday 9 April 2013

Stuck in Your Head # 42

I'm going to give you the line from the books I've read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.

Okay, so my kid ‘made’ me watch the first movie, and this line stuck in my head—okay, so it may not be from that movie but it's still all I could think about


‘[…]. “I mean, that’s only the second time I’ve done it. I accidentally set a boa constrictor on my cousin Dudley at the zoo once […]”’
page 146 paperback (#2)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
(Harry Potter #2)
Mass paperback 1998 by Bloomsbury Publishing
YA fantasy

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl's bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble beings, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself.

Series includes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallow