The second coming of Harry Potter was the most awaited sequel ever. Fans had seen and read the magic of The Sorcerer's Stone and were clamoring with excitement when The Chamber of Secrets was finally released back in 2003. The appeal of the Wizarding World has extended till the present day and the second installment of the adventures of The Boy Who Lived is as popular as ever.
Memes are easily the most relatable and prevalent form of pop culture media, and the beloved movie has been the subject of countless hilarious memes. In fact, the whole of The Chamber of Secrets can be summed up perfectly with the help of this bite-sized content.
Updated on October 19th, 2022 by Fawzia Khan: 2022 marks the silver anniversary of the beginning of the Harry Potter series, which is nothing short of a worldwide phenomenon. The Boy Who Lived enchanted everyone with his debut at Hogwarts, and captivated the world in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he appeared surer of himself in the magical world. Every day, new memes appear on the internet, summing up The Chamber of Secrets better than anything else.
A Moody Ford Anglia
Harry's adventures at Hogwarts began with the blocked-off barrier to Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters, and Ron's brilliant idea to fly the magical Ford Anglia to the school remained one of his worst decisions ever.
While the car worked perfectly fine for Fred and George, it really did an about-turn for Ron and Harry, who drove it through Hogwarts' defenses and no-electricity zone, which landed them into the Whomping Willow and considerable damage done to the grounds and themselves.
Dobby's Perfect Excuse
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This installment of the franchise had a very different beginning, with Harry being stopped from going to Hogwarts by a determined little fellow named Dobby. At that time, Dobby had no reason to stop him from going to his favorite place, but if it was the time of a pandemic, he could have given Harry the perfect excuse of online classes.
Dobby's conviction to save Harry was awe-inspiring and could have worked had circumstances and world events been in his favor at the time.
Mrs. Weasley's Best Son
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There may be unpopular opinions about Molly Weasley and her love for Harry, but her fondness for the one boy who was not her biological son is still quite meme-able. The Chamber of Secrets was the first time when Harry visited The Burrow, and he experienced the warmth of the other Weasleys for the first time.
She had a soft corner for Harry, which was sweet considering he had no parents or parental figures at that time, and she certainly prioritized him over Ron sometimes.
Flying Cars to Hogwarts
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Iconic best friends, Ron and Harry, knew how to make an entrance - whether that was by scrambling into class late or making surprise returns. However, the one entrance that no one will ever forget occurred in the second movie when they drove a flying Ford Anglia to Hogwarts School.
While the audience had seen how terrifying it was for the boys, this amusing Spider-Man perfectly meme captures how the citizens in London must have felt when they saw the event occur. Although he has fought alien entities and machine-like villains, even he appears surprised and amazed by the flying vehicle.
A Polyjuice Faux Pas
Hermione was a brilliant young witch who rarely went wrong, so the one time she made an error, it had catastrophic results... for her. Picking Millicent Bulstrode's cat's fur, instead of her own hair caused her to become a giant cat-human hybrid, which was against the magical laws of the Polyjuice potion.
This meme captures the essence of that scene too well, with a confused pair made up of Ron and Harry, staring at a furious cat-Hermione as she realized her mistake.
Scumbag Tom Riddle
The eternal villain, Voldemort, kickstarted the events of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets decades ago when he decided to go down a dark path and open up the Chamber underneath the girl's bathroom and unleash the monster within.
The internet imagines how easy it must have been for him to bypass the safety of students and the world by just swaggering over to the Chamber and letting the basilisk out. Creating chaos was in Tom's nature.
Good Guy Tom Riddle
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Tom Riddle was bad to the bone, but students would be grateful to him in their school days as his folly of opening up the Chamber earned them freedom from final exams — and one dead classmate. He did what nobody else could do since he was the Heir of Slytherin, and Hogwarts had to make students move back for their own safety.
The younger, future Lord Voldemort was in the nascent stages of his evilness, which was enough to make Hogwarts' machinery and for the rules to break down (as seen in the flashback).
Draco's Prediction About Ginny
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In a fantastic moment of foreshadowing, Draco's snide remark about Ginny and Harry came true at the end of Harry Potter. While the young witches and wizards shopped at Flourish and Blotts for their schoolbooks, Draco took the opportunity to be rude to Harry.
A defensive little Ginny stood up to his bully, and revealed her feelings for Harry too soon. There's no way Draco was being serious, but his commenting passing made him a truly brilliant soothsayer.
Arachnophobes, Beware
Spiders seem to play a rather large role in fantasy franchises, and after witnessing Shelob in The Lord of the Rings, people with arachnophobia witnessed more spiders in Chamber of Secrets as Aragog and his family made an appearance.
Not only did they appear onscreen, but also chased and attempted to finish Ron and Harry for meat which was truly frightening for arachnophobes like Ron himself.
Hagrid's Achilles' Heel
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Hagrid and his magical creatures were a never-ending love affair, and also his Achilles' Heel. He loved his animals to the ends of the Earth, - even if they really didn't love him back. He had been framed by Riddle for opening the Chamber of Secrets because of his love for Aragog, but it's scary to think what would have happened if he had actually done it.
In all likeliness, Hagrid would have tried to get to know the Basilisk better, which would have led to his death by its gaze. His affection for creatures would be his downfall, yet again.
A Spider Theory
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Of his many fears, spiders were Ron's biggest nightmare. He was absolutely terrified of them, which audiences found out in the second Harry Potter movie.
In the process, they learned that spiders also fled from the Basilisk too. This meme depicts the mind-blowing discovery that fans made, after realizing that a creature that kills by sight would be deadlier to those with eight of them. Even the biggest of them was petrified (pun intended) of the thing in the Chamber.
A Khaby Lame Moment
The odds of a 12-year-old boy finding the infamous lair of the basilisk was unlikely, especially over the expertise of professors with decades of experience, but that was probably what made Harry Potter so special. Coupled with the fact that Parseltongue was required, it was embarrassingly easy for him to discover it.
This was when a pattern emerged in the series: Harry could scope threats out that others couldn't see, often better than the authorities. It resembled Khaby Lame's viral, wordless videos.
Dobby And The Sock
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One of the most honorable things that Harry did was setting Dobby free. He gave him a new lease on life, even if it was just to annoy an arrogant Lucius Malfoy.
This birthed the iconic phrase "Dobby is a free elf!" Few other catchphrases are as memorable as this one, and it definitely makes for a sassy meme about the noble elf.
The Chamber Of Love
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It may be called the Chamber of Secrets, but the hidden room played a rather large role in bringing the two biggest couples of Harry Potter together. Harry and Ginny spoke at length for the first time when they faced the threat of the Basilisk and the diary Horcrux, and Ron and Hermione gave in to their passions when they were collecting Basilisk fangs in the Chamber.
Something about the Chamber brought people closer together and created some of the most legendary relationships in the Wizarding World.
The Sword Of Gryffindor's Anomaly
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There aren't too many loopholes in The Chamber of Secrets, but the Sword of Gryffindor is a big one that fans are trying to figure out to date. It made its first appearance in this movie, as Harry pulled it out of the Sorting Hat, but he shouldn't have been able to handle it if a part of Voldemort's soul resided in him.
However, not only could he hold it, but he wielded it successfully against the Basilisk and the other Horcrux, the diary, without so much as a flinch. This was perhaps because he was, in essence, a true Gryffindor.