What Jo says about...
Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ©1998UK ©1999US

Please note: unless you see quotemarks, these are summaries, and not JKR's words themselves. Please see the linked article for the actual text.

• Her favorite bits of the books: The ending of GoF, Chapter 12 of SS/PS, the final rescue scene in CoS, and Remus Lupin in PoA. Books 2 and 4 are her favorites overall, which is weird, because "they were the most difficult to write." [Read the whole quote from the Houston Chronicle, 2001]
• JKR: "Key things happen in book two. No one knows how important those things are ... yet. There's a lot in there. And I know how difficult it was to get it all in there without drawing too much attention to the clues." "All the important stuff [from book 2] got into the film."[Read the entire quote from IGN.com, 2002]
• Kloves: "There's one thing in Chamber [of Secrets movie] that Jo indicated will play a part later in the series..." [Read the whole quote from the Chamber of Secrets DVD]
• There is no trace of the HBP storyline left in CoS, rather the link between the two books relates to a discovery Harry made in CoS that foreshadows something he finds out in HBP. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince "was once, in the long distant past, a possibility for 'Chamber of Secrets,' and from that deduced that it was genuine. Certain crucial pieces of information in book six were originally planned for 'Chamber of Secrets,' but very early on (first draft of Chamber) I realised that this information's proper home was book six. I have said before now that 'Chamber' holds some very important clues to the ultimate end of the series. Not as many as six, obviously, but there is a link." [Read the exact quote from Jo's website, 2004]
• In 'Chamber of Secrets,' what would have happened if Ginny had died and Tom Riddle had escaped the diary? JKR: cannot answer except to say Voldemort would have been stronger. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Gilderoy Lockhart is the only character that she has consciously modeled after someone she has met. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website, 2004]
• In Book 2 Ginny sent Harry the valentine of her own volition. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• “Ginny is definitely in no way possessed by Voldemort.” She is not a Parselmouth. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Ginny does not have a life debt to Harry from Book 2. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Glasses do not protect one from a Basilisk. Cameras do because there are mirrors and numerous lenses. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• Goblet of Fire and Chamber of Secrets were the hardest books JK to write. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK removed the Half-blood Prince storyline from Chamber of Secrets because it didn't work well, and it would have blown too many things open. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
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