Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Who is your Audience?
The audience is people who have read the first Harry Potter book, The Sorcerer’s Stone. The audience is also directed towards teens and adults who enjoy reading about wizardry and magic.
What is your Hook?
Think of your fiction openings.
The hook will be and acton hook. It will be when Harry is in the Chamber talking to Tom Riddle or when Tom Riddle is forming into Voldemort right in front of Harry’s eyes.
Important Characters (protagonist, antagonist, and supporting characters)/ Names and descriptions:
Description
Harry Potter
Harry is a twelve-year-old boy with messy hair and glasses who became famous within the wizard world by surviving the curse of a powerful wizard that goes by Voldemort also known as You Know Who or He Who Must Not Be Named. Harry often finds himself entangled in dangerous adventures but he always find a way out
Ronald Weasley
Ronald Weasley also known as Ron is a tall, red haired boy.
Ron is Harry’s best friend and helps him out especially when Malfoy is picking on him. Ron hates Malfoy just as much if not more than Harry does. Ron’s family is pretty poor, he has 1 sister named Ginny and 5 older brothers named Bill, Charlie, Percy, and twins Fred and George. Ron is in the Gryffindor House.
Hermione Granger
Hermione is also one of Harry’s best friends. She is the smartest out of the 3 of them. She is always prepared and is also in the Gryffindor House. Comment by Jennifer Heckman:
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy is Harry’s arch nemesis. His family is very wealthy, he is able to buy himself a position on the Slytherin House Quidditch team. He has the fastest broomstick but, he isn’t very good at it. Malfoy and his friends bully Harry in school a lot. They absolutely hate him. Comment by Jennifer Heckman:
Dobby
Dobby is the Malfoy’s elf. Dobby tries to get Harry out of Hogwarts to keep him away from the danger that lurks there. He almost kills Harry by trying to save his life.
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Setting ( Time and Place. Be sure to describe):
The setting of this book is at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Magic. This magic School is in a place where no muggle shall find. A muggle is a human with no magic. Harry has to take a secret train from platform 9 3/4 which is hidden through a wall. This is Harry’s second year at Hogwarts.
Conflict/Plot:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets begins when Harry is spending a miserable summer with his only remaining family, the Dursleys. Harry stays with them because his parents were killed by Voldemort. Harry gets a real shock when he gets a surprise visitor…Dobby the house-elf, who warns him against returning to Hogwarts, because terrible things are going to happen. Harry decides to ignore Dobby’s warning and continues with his plan. But at Hogwarts, strange and terrible things are indeed happening. When Harry arrives he is suddenly hearing mysterious voices from inside the walls, muggle-born students are being attacked, and a message scrawled on the wall in blood puts everyone on his or her guard. Harry finds a secret notebook that belonged to Tom Riddle where the ink will disappear and reappear as he asks questions.
While HArry was communicating with the notebook he got to go into Tom Riddle’s life and see how he lived but no one could see him. Later on Harry went to Myrtle the ghost’s bathroom that no one was in and went into the chamber. He then unlocked a big door that had a snake around it. When Harry went into the chamber he saw a snake, Harry can speak to snakes. He also saw a hat appeared and the sword of Gryffindor was in it. Harry ended up having to fight the snake, Harry ripped the snakes tooth out and stabbed the notebook with it and got rid of Tom Riddle which at that time he realized was Voldemort. Harry explains his adventure to Dumbledore. Then, Lucius Malfoy storms into the office with his house-elf, Dobby, and Harry frees Dobby from by tricking Lucius into giving Dobby a sock. Comment by Jennifer Heckman:
Ideas for a Cliffhanger:
- What will Harry do next?
- Will Harry ever get out of this?
- Is Harry going to die?
- What will Hermione do now?
- Sales Pitch?
- What should I read this book?
( Even if you didn’t like it! Remember advertising companies need to sell things they don’t like/don’t use all the time!)
Do you want to learn how to be a wizard? Harry is one! Harry is going to go on numerous crazy adventures through the movie. He will fight in battles and run away from crazy things, you will never see anything coming. Go see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! Coming soon to theatres near you.
Tone of your book trailer (what kind of background music will you look for?):
- Action music to accommodate the dramatic scene