Bookstores in Movies – 4

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

From IMDB:

It’s Year 2 at Hogwarts, and Harry Potter, Ron, and Hermione are back learning, but their year doesn’t go passed quietly. Members of the school are turning up petrified and bloody writings are appearing on the walls, revealing to everyone, that someone has opened the Chamber of Secrets. The attacks continue, bringing the possibility of the closure of Hogwarts. Harry and his friends are now forced to secretly uncover the truth about the chamber before the school closes or any lives are taken.

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2 thoughts on “Bookstores in Movies – 4”

  1. This is the Grammar Police.

    “…doesn’t go passed quietly.”

    Try either “…doesn’t go past quietly” or “doesn’t pass quietly.”

    Also, it should be “…turning up petrified, and bloody…”

    Furthermore, “…revealing to everyone that someone…”

    “…forced to secretly uncover the truth about the chamber before the school closes…”

    What’s that? You say they’re forced to secretly uncover the truth about secrets?

  2. I always found it interesting that for a series of books that have sold fantastically well and are credited with instilling a love of reading in so many children, the characters in the books never read. Hermione reads non fiction, and in this book it is intimated that she’s read Lockhart’s books, but otherwise no one ever reads. Lockhart’s books are memoirs, and all that is discussed is their veracity.

    Characters never walk up to someone reading, or have someone interrupt their reading unless it is a non-fiction book that advances the plot. Rowling’s supposedly well-built world does not contain purely fiction books and the characters never discuss fiction books, ever. It’s like she has some sort of blind spot in that regard.

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