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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Chris Columbus

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Movie propaganda

The secret is out.

The follow-up to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone finds young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorising the school.

Persons of interest

Daniel Radcliffe .... Harry Potter
Rupert Grint .... Ron Weasley
Emma Watson .... Hermione Granger
Kenneth Branagh .... Professor Gilderoy Lockhart
Robbie Coltrane .... Gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid
Richard Harris .... Headmaster Albus Dumbledore
Alan Rickman .... Professor Severus Snape
Maggie Smith .... Deputy Headmistress Professor Minerva McGonagall
Alfred Burke .... Headmaster Armando Dippet
John Cleese .... Sir Nicholas "Nearly Headless Nick" De Mimsy-Porpington
Warwick Davis .... Professor Flitwick
Tom Felton .... Draco Malfoy
Julian Glover .... Aragog
Richard Griffiths .... Uncle Vernon Dursley
Shirley Henderson .... Moaning Myrtle
Jason Isaacs .... Lucius Malfoy
Gemma Jones .... Madam Poppy Pomfrey
Matthew Lewis .... Neville Longbottom
Miriam Margolyes .... Professor Sprout
Hugh Mitchell .... Colin Creevey
Sally Mortemore .... Madam Irma Pince
Katharine Nicholson .... Pansy Parkinson
Gemma Padley .... Penelope Clearwater
James Phelps .... Fred Weasley
Oliver Phelps .... George Weasley
Fiona Shaw .... Aunt Petunia Dursley
Julie Walters .... Mrs Weasley
Mark Williams .... Arthur Weasley
Bonnie Wright .... Virginia "Ginny" Weasley
Robert Hardy .... Cornelius Fudge
JK Rowling .... Author
Steve Kloves .... Screenwriter
Chris Columbus .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Harry Potter official movie sites:

Australia
International

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2003

See also Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the half-blood prince, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows: Part 2
Studios and distributors:

Warner Bros * Roadshow Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Puberty. Those cherubic boys have become husky young men but they still get to play magic and monsters with the best of them. The Chamber of Secrets is less coherent than The philosopher's stone with many of the motivations behind the secondary and tertiary characters unclear, particularly Draco Malfoy and the Gryffindor team Captain. They wander in, grumble a bit and then wander out. All in all, they have no effect on the story or on the outcome.

Gilderoy Lockhart is just plain annoying. Sure, he injects some humour into the film but would anyone really hire him as a teacher? I think not, despite the "fame" that he attaches to himself. On the upside, it's good to see racism getting the smack about the ears that it deserves. Mud-blood or pure-blood, Hogwarts is based on talent and skill, the way the world should be.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fun adventure and a good mystery that everyone will enjoy, even if it does run for nearly three hours - who says kids have no attention span?