Crooked Table Podcast: ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ (featuring Teri Sears)

This episode, we return to Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for an in-depth chat about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In many ways, Year Two feels like the end of an era for the franchise. Director Chris Columbus left after this point, taking the warm and fuzzies largely with him. And the late Richard Harris makes his final appearance as Albus Dumbledore.

Teri Sears joins the show to help us unlock Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. We’ll address why the movie is perhaps too slavish to J.K. Rowling’s novel, how it marks the series’ first incremental steps into the dark, and which character is shockingly devoid of much-needed development.

So brush up on your Parseltongue and tame that bloodthirsty beast if you can. Oh, and enjoy our in-depth discussion on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Next month, we’re heading straight for Azkaban prison!

SYNOPSIS

The second installment of boy wizard Harry Potter’s (Daniel Radcliffe) adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, based on the novel by JK Rowling. A mysterious elf tells Harry to expect trouble during his second year at Hogwarts, but nothing can prepare him for trees that fight back, flying cars, spiders that talk and deadly warnings written in blood on the walls of the school.