User blog comment:ProfessorTofty/Harry Potter Wiki Reading Club - Chamber of Secrets/@comment-1400578-20130221013146

Maybe weeknights just don't work out well for some people? I dunno.

Personal favorite passage from COS ch.1-9:

Harry learned quickly not to feel too sorry for the gnomes. He decided to just drop the first one he caught over the hedge, but the gnome, sensing weakness, sank its razor-sharp teeth into Harry's finger and he had a hard job shaking it off - until - "Wow, Harry - that must have been fifty feet..."