As both a book and a film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets had the hard job of following up from a rather good predecessor and expanding the story of the Boy Who Lived. The two versions are a little more evenly matched this time, but it's the little details that start to count from here until The Half-Blood Prince, as Tom Riddle's true identity and Harry's Parsletongue ability get much more time allocated in the novel to allow for us to get a much firmer grasp on the series lore, whereas the revelation of both twists in the movie is a lot harder to see coming and thus proves somewhat unsuccessful in both instances. Dobby's on-screen portrayal is perfectly matched to the book's humorous approach on house elf slavery, as is new student Colin Creevey (played by Hugh Mitchell), wanting a photograph with Harry at all the wrong times in both incarnations. The battle for top spot between the two versions of Chamber of Secrets is a lot closer than with The Philosopher's Stone, but that the film skips over several key scenes from the book and a couple of lines of dialogue that later in the series proved crucial (leaving Half-Blood Prince to awkwardly recap them) ensures that the paper version of Harry's second outing remains the best one to get.
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