If we're being honest here, this is my least favorite Potter book. I really dislike spiders and snakes and what's this book filled with? A GIANT SNAKE AND A TRILLION SPIDERS. Yes, that makes reading this book an exceptionally wonderful read. Only not.
So, moving on...
Here we find Harry shut up in his room and not allowed to even SPEAK to anyone in the wizarding world. When a house elf (who doesn't love Dobby? Honestly.) shows up in his bedroom and tells him that he must not go back because terrible things are going to happen at Hogwarts and proceeds to tell Harry he has stopped his letters, Harry is both curious and furious (I really couldn't help the rhyming). Dobby refuses to take no for an answer and smashes a pudding over a visitor's head. This clearly doesn't bode well with the Dursleys and Harry becomes an absolute prisoner in his own home. Luckily, the Weasley brothers come to the rescue.
The chapters where Fred, George and Ron come to rescue him and he's at the Burrow are my favorites. They're just so much fun.
After crashing the flying car into the whomping willow, seeing Lockhart at the staff table, a few weeks of schoolwork and Nearly Headless Nick's 500th deathday party, the trio happens upon the first attack once the chamber of secrets has been opened. There's a few more attacks, people accuse Harry, Lockhart really sucks at being a wizard, Hermoine turns into a cat, Harry and Ron follow the spiders ("Follow the spiders?! Why couldn't it be follow the BUTTERFLIES?" is one of the best lines from that movie), they suspect Hagrid and Ginny is taken into the chamber. Being the ever adventurous duo (as Hermoine is petrified and they cannot be a trio), Harry and Ron set out to help Lockhart. Seeing as he is completely inept and cause a cascade of rock, Harry leaves Ron behind and enters the chamber to save Ginny. Why is Tom Riddle here? How has he not aged a day? Why does he have Harry's wand? Fishy stuff, if you ask me.
Anyway, it turns out that the diary is a "preserved memory" of Voldemort's sixteen-year-old self and Harry erases it with a basilisk fang. He rids the school of the monster within, saves Ginny and helps to free Dobby. Just another year at Hogwarts, you know?
I think what I have enjoyed most about rereading the early books (it's the last time to ever read the series before a movie comes out, duh) is how incredibly intricate the series as a whole is. I mean, she gives you clues in the first two books that are immensely important all the way in the seventh and final episode. I would also like to point out that for a book I enjoy least, I sure as hell had a lot to say.
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