Talk:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Contents 1 Points to Consider 2 Storyline 3 The Plot 4 Setting a house-elf free 5 Images 6 Points to Consider

[edit] Points to Consider

Does the point of comparing CoS to Redwall really need to be included? Each part of their respective stories that are about snakes like are obviously influenced by the Perseus/Medusa story, right? -- Hollerama 08 July 2006

[edit] Storyline

There is no storyline or anything here. Someone really ought to add on. All the other Harry Potter books' articles have more.

Feel free to add it. It would be better to add material to existing Harry Potter articles than to create tiny articles about every place name and spell in the books. Please see your talk page. -- Someone else 06:39, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

It takes a lot of work to write these pages. I was merly suggesting that purhaps I shouldn't do all the work. -- User:12.203.10.240

While your enthusiasm is certainly astonishing, creating so many short articles has already caused people to start combining them, and not always in the best possible way. Your efforts would be better directed to making longer, more inclusive, articles rather than articles on every object, spell or place mentioned in Harry Potter. This has been mentioned numerous times on your talk page. -- Someone else 07:37, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I deleted the rest of this article, because it was a describtion of the Chamber of Secrets.

[edit] The Plot

As I have noted on Wikipedia_talk:Spoiler_warning#Harry Potter Madness, the spoiler is far too long. But it doesn't seem to be very accurate either (I am currently fixing errors). Brianjd

Hey I was thinking that perhaps the plot section could be merged into Harry Potter (plot) for the articles of the books. Some of the book articles have more lengthy plot summaries than the plot article, some less lengthy, and I'd like to try and make that more consistent. Any opinions? EvilPhoenix 03:16, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm... I swapped the text here with the much shorter overview of the plot in Harry Potter (plot). Is this better? - Alex Nisnevich (talk) 16:19, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

There's no reason for a plot summary so long it can't go in this page. The one at Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Full Plot Summary needs to be condensed and joined with this one. For discussion on the issue with book 6, see Book 6's VfD and discussions at: MoS, Village Pump, What Wikipedia Is Not, and Wikipedia Fiction Guidlines.

I'd like the full plot summary page deleted as well as any other books' full plot summaries. I have started a plan here to drop all wordy pages and relink to the new HP Wikibook that another user created. Any problems? -Matt 23:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Full plot sumamry moved to the Wikibook and is voting for deletino now. -Matt 18:57, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

There seem to be spoilers in the page that need to be removed from inappropriate sections. -Matt 18:13, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, i think there might be problems. I just re-edited the plot summary here so it is more readable and makes a bit more sense in the story it is telling. But looking back at the earlier summaries which are many times its length, i have to think that some important details have been left out. There also seem a few contradictions between versions which have crept in. It is no good just referring people to a truly mammoth summary on wikibooks when what they want is something in-between. Sandpiper 00:04, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Just added a newer Plot Overview edit. Yes, there are still important details that might be missing, but I hope we're closer to having the most direct summary, and having the flow of events clearer without adding in every single scene. Further edits would be appreciated. Cybertooth85 20:50, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Setting a house-elf free

See Talk:House-elf#Setting a house-elf free (it has a reference to this article). Brian Jason Drake 02:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

The Brazilian and French covers do not belong on the English page. They should be on the French and Portuguese Wikipedia equivalents. It might be good for someone to add the British adult cover, however. --Phi*n!x 00:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Why don't they belong? I always find it interesting to see foreign translations of book and album covers. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 03:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:Harry Potter#Foreign language cover images. Brian Jason Drake 06:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Points to Consider

I removed a line from "Points to Consider" that was specifically stating a little detail in the movie, which hardly belongs here. If anyone objects, please reply, but I see no reason that it should be left in. If you're curious, the line was "When Harry and Ron exit the Slytherin common room (as Crabbe and Goyle), Ron's bangs aren't red, as they were when Harry and Ron transforming back into themselves, while talking to Draco." -Nyx 03:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)