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The 2002 video game Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was developed by KnownWonder for Windows and Mac and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for PC and Mac. As its sequel, it has similar action-adventure platforming gameplay. The game was succeeded by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the PC, which also has similar gameplay.
Ron Weasley (voiced by Greg Chillin), Harry's best friend, usually seen leading Harry to classes and challenges or to the Quidditch stadium, or in cut scenes.
Hermione Granger (voiced by Emily Robinson), Harry's other best friend, a brainy girl who also leads Harry to classes. She is petrified towards the end of the game.
Draco Malfoy (voiced by Lewis MacLeod), Harry's arch-rival. Harry duels him at the DuellingClub. He is also in the clips where Harry goes to Quidditich practise, and where Harry (in the figure of Goyle) is in the Slytherin Dungeon to talk with Draco. He can be seen at the House Point Ceremonies, and at the end of the year feast. When Harry plays Quidditch against Slytherin, Malfoy will be the seeker.
Albus Dumbledore (voiced by Lewis MacLeod), the Headmaster of Hogwarts. While normally absent from a good part of the game, he features prominently in a cut scene in which he tells Harry that he does not think that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin. He also appears at the end of each day to announce the latest house point totals, and at the end of the year ceremony.
Professor McGonagall (voiced by Ève Karpf), the Transfiguration teacher. Her classroom is located on the left side of the second floor. She isn't seen very often because Harry doesn't have any Transfiguration classes. There is a time in between classes/challenges when the classroom has just been open when McGonagall is holding a class. If Harry enters the classroom, she will give him a warning and send him out. If Harry enters a second time, McGonagall will take 5 house points away. She also leads Harry to Dumbledore's study when Nearly Headless Nick has been petrified.
Rubeus Hagrid (voiced by Jonathan Kydd), a very large half-man, half-giant, usually found in his cottage in the grounds. He can also be found right in front of the entrance if Harry goes outside just before Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Professor Sprout (voiced by Ève Karpf), the Herbology teacher. She teaches in the greenhouses, which are located on the right-hand side of the grounds.
Oliver Wood (voiced by Lewis MacLeod), Gryffindor Quidditch team Captain. Wood appears after Harry's first Defence Against the Dark Arts Class. Wood leads Harry to the Quidditch pitch, and re-teaches Harry how to play Quidditch.
Percy Weasley (voiced by Lewis MacLeod), a Gryffindor prefect, older brother of Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny. Percy can be found in the Gryffindor Tower or the Duelling Club if Harry visits there in between classes/challenges.
Peeves (voiced by Chris Crosby), a poltergeist Harry meets during the Skurge challenge. He also pops out of certain chests.
Gregory Goyle (voiced by Harry Robinson), one of Malfoy's friends and his figure is playable when Harry transforms into him.
Lee Jordan (voiced by Greg Chillin), the commentator for Quidditch and is good friends with Fred and George Weasley. He does not appear and only his voice is heard.
Lucius Malfoy (voiced by Allan Corduner), the father of Draco. He is seen in Borgin and Burkes and then in Diagon Alley. He is also mentioned during Harry's Quidditch training. The last cutscene he appears in is the one where he fires Dumbledore and arrests Hagrid.
Tom Riddle (voiced by Harry Robinson), the young version of Lord Voldemort. He is controlled by his diary. The diary is destroyed during the showdown in the Chamber of Secrets and Riddle is destroyed with it.
Alohomora: Unlocks locks, including those found on doors, chests and secret doors. Harry learned this spell in Philosopher's Stone.
Lumos: Cast on Gargoyles, temporarily illuminates the caster's wand and reveals magically hidden things. Harry learned this spell in Philosopher's Stone.
Skurge: Clears ectoplasm (an "unpleasant greenish substance left behind by certain ghostly beings") from doorways and off floors. Harry learns this spell in Charms.
Expelliarmus: Available only in wizard duels. Deflects spells cast by the opponent.
Spongify: activates certain specially marked "Spongify" carpets and paved floor, making it bouncy, allowing Harry to leap high off of it. Harry learns this spell in his second Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson.
In the previous computer game , there is a background character named Marilyn who is a Hufflepuff that collects curious objects. As an inside joke, in the next adaptation for Chamber of Secrets, there is another extra, Arthur, who is stated to be Marilyn's younger brother and shares her strange hobby.
In the previous game, there's only 727 beans to be collected (150 of those can be traded for wizard cards), but in this game, you can constantly collect beans, such as winning dueling. You could also constantly get beans and Wiggentree barks by playing Diffindo challenge and getting beans from mushrooms and Wiggentree barks from 5 Bowtruckles.
In the previous game, wizard cards are either for trading only, or can't be traded for at all. In this game, all wizard cards can be collected without trading beans for, and any bronze or silver wizard cards missed can be for trade. However if you trade beans for a wizard card, then go to an area where that card would be, it wouldn't be there, and if it would be in that chest, it would give one bean instead. So be sure to find all wizard cards without trading any beans for, and save beans for quidditch supplies and Flobberworm mucus.
Unlike the previous computer game, in which casting Lumos at a gargoyle directly made things appear, casting Lumos at a gargoyle does differently in this game; it lights your wand, which then makes things appear or disappear. Any Lumos related objects would be affected within distance from Harry's lighted wand, regardless of which gargoyle you casted Lumos at. The only exception is a last gargoyle at Gold Wizard Card Challenge, which directly makes a floor disappear, then reappear if you cast at it again, and so on.
Unlike the previous computer game, there are levels that can be replayed any number of times which are Hogwarts grounds, Hogwarts main, grand staircase, and all four spell challenges, and Gold wizard card challenge (PC only due to resetting bug on Mac), Quidditch, and wizard duelling.
Unlike the previous game, it's best to play spell challenge at least twice due to timer, one to get goodies, and other to master the challenge.
There is a secret level known as the Gryffindor Challenge. It is only accessible through the debug mode, which is activated by pressing the Delete key next to the help key. To get to the challenge, one needs then to move to beyond the door usually leading into the Gryffindor Tower's dormitories, and deactivate the debug mod again. There are nine secrets, and ten challenge stars there. There is no timer for this level.
Even if Slytherin had the most house points at the end of the year, they will still get second place.
The basilisk is not green, but purple and it attacks by spraying a purple stream of venom which Harry must dodge. After failing to kill Harry from the mouth of Slytherin's statue, the snake pops from grating in the floor to try and bite or spray the young wizard. When it is killed, it simply falls on Riddle's diary, presumably burying its fangs in the book and destroying it.
Neville Longbottom is not present in this version of the game, despite being present in the previous game.
There is a cheat in this game that allows the player to move Harry to anywhere in the current area, that can be done with debug mode via delete key. This cheat does not allow the player to access different areas, however.
Gallery[]
Harry in the Great Hall
Main Menu
Dumbledore's office
the Greenhouse
Peeves the poltergeist
Lumos
Harry in the Hospital Wing
chocolate frogs
purchasing silver Wizard Cards
unlocking key for Gold Wizard Cards
Bronze Card
Silver Card
Harry Potter! the last Gold Wizard Card
Mistakes[]
In UK releases, some words are misspelled with their American spellings. For example, in Lockhart's introductory speech, Dark Force Defence League is misspelled as Dark Force Defense League.
In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry stares directly at the basilisk long before Fawkes scratches its eyes out.
During the opening sequence of Harry being rescued from No.4 Privet Drive, Hagrid can be seen inexplicably standing in the back garden of the house next to the Dursleys'.
Once you enter Slytherin Common Room, and a cutscene about Harry as Goyle talking to Draco starts, if you skip this cutscene, then quit the game before leaving the Slytherin Common Room and reopen it, skipping the cutscene would keep it going and the screen would remain dark. You would have to start the game all over again. Maybe the creator noticed that error when being caught by Snape then changed it so instead of being reloaded, Harry gets transported back. You might notice this if you get some beans or cards then get caught.
If you go outside of Hogwarts unless you're going there for the forbidden forest, you will be trapped there, and you would have to quit the game and reopen it.
Only in Mac version[]
The Macintosh edition (ported by Aspyr Media) has two different executables allowing it to be run on either Mac OS 9 or OS X. The former version however had many bugs in its initial release, including:
The doors outside the spell challenges in the Entrance Hall (which are supposed to remain locked until the player had completed the challenge for the first time) were always open
The door in the dungeons to get to the Bicorn Horn would not work properly.
Loss of video would sometimes occur after the Skurge challenge.
Some things would keep resetting, which includes opened chest being closed again, with same number of beans, except that if you got the wizard card from the chest already, it would give one bean. It also includes cauldrons in Potions acting like you didn't already took a lesson and not letting you get potions (all other identical cauldrons will still give the potion after Potions class). It also includes Gold Wizard Card Challenge door to lock even after you unlocked it, but if you already got all silver cards, you could workaround by turning on debug mode and using a delete key to go through the door. But don't do it until you get all 40 silver since it would be cheating. Also number of secrets found in areas would reset to zero. However number of beans, cards, house points, spells learned, players available to duel, and record time in spell challenge will remain, and events like tasks for Polyjuice Potion, and classes would not repeat unless you start a new game.
Framerate would sometimes decrease randomly regardless of the kind of Mac being used.
Aspyr planned to release a patch (1.0.1) to fix these problems, however only a beta version of this patch was released - which left some bugs unfixed. The Mac OS X launcher does not contain these bugs (with the exception of the resetting bug, which still remains).
