Harry Potter Needs ALL the Help! with Sarah Chamber of Secrets Ch 17

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Heir of Slytherin.

Sarah from First Years: A Harry Potter Podcast for adult first time readers of the series is BACK! The first repeat guest on the podcast AND first back-to-back chapter guest!

It's time for the main climax, the final showdown, and of course the VILLAIN MONOLOGUE. And nobody can villain monologue like a teenage memory of Tom Riddle. He's not even Voldemort yet (really) and he's got the "I'm the greatest sorcerer in the world" thing down. Harry doesn't stand for that slander though because he knows the head wizard on the cobble street is actually Albus Dumbledore. And lucky for him, that loyalty is enough to bring Fawkes the Phoenix to his aid when it comes time to battle a giant snake with a murder stare, without a wand... Seriously Tom, give him his wand back!

There's far more blood and gore than you might expect in a book written for children, and way more 'Harry is a bit slow' than you remember from reading this as a kid. Luckily, Fawkes takes care of the Basalisks eyes for him AND brings him the Sorting Hat. While avoiding a concussion, Harry retrieves the sword of Godric Gryffindor and stabs the Basalisk through the mouth. He then uses his new fang souvenir to do more stabbing (so much stabbing in this chapter), this time through the diary, which kills memory Tom Riddle and, unknowingly to Harry, one of Voldemort's horcruxes.

This is a huge chapter with a ton of laughs along the way!

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