Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I showcase a door in the Cloistered Courtyard (named "Transfiguration Courtyard" in some later games) that corresponds to the Transfiguration classroom entrance in the films which can be opened on the arrival night, the first day, and the night after, and then it becomes permanently locked. By going through the door as you can see, it causes Harry to exit from another door at the top of a random nearby tower that has nothing but a small unwanted balcony to stand on and you can't do anything other than going back through the door or dodge off the side, causing Harry to fall to his fainting and respawning. The door's warp seems really pointless because it becomes inaccessible so soon, but it's worth noting that the day it becomes inaccessible is the same day that Harry earns his Nimbus 2000 to use at daytime in the Hogwarts Grounds after Quidditch Practice, so it might simply be a method to tease the rooftops before they can be freely reached, but Harry cannot land on the aforementioned balcony from his broomstick.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Arrival Night at Hogwarts
1:21 - Harry's First Day
3:33 - Neville's Toad
6:44 - The Parselmouth-onward
I must admit, a model of Ray Liotta in the PS2 version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but a model of George Carlin, both as he looked in the 1960s and in later life would look a lot better. The same goes with fellow New Yorker Kyra Sedgwick was 37 when the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets video game and movie came out in November of 2002. This game would lose the E rating (E10+ today) and be rated T or M instead if it included her character from the crime drama The Closer whose name is Brenda Leigh Johnson since that show is rated TV-14.
The reason I enjoy associating both George Carlin and Kyra Sedgwick with Harry Potter is because Carlin was involved with a British property which was Thomas & Friends while Sedgwick is an American of British descent. Thus, as a result, I connect Harry Potter to Sedgwick's husband of Kevin Bacon as well.
Drew Struzan designed a poster for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but it went unused and he did finish his work. His poster design for Sorcerer's Stone was used, however.
Three out of the four Harry Potter films that are rated PG-13 have a video game with the E10+ rating with the only exception being Deathly Hallows Part 1 which is rated T while the four Harry Potter films with a PG rating have three video games based on them with an E rating which would be rated E10+ today and the Half-Blood Prince video game is rated E10+.
Among the things that the 2003 release of the Sorcerer's Stone video game on NGC, PS2 & Xbox that make it too similar to Chamber of Secrets on NGC, PS2 & Xbox is that in both, there's an arrival night at Hogwarts and a six-day time period, Harry arrives at Hogwarts at night, goes up to the Gryffindor Common Room and learns the password to the Fat Lady's portrait as everyone except him goes in so he goes in on his own and then he sneaks past Percy to get into Fred & George's shop and then heads back to the common room as Ron tells him about it being a long day and being really tired so he's off to bed with most of the dialogue that night in the common room being the same as Chamber of Secrets, Harry has a Flying Lesson on his first day of Hogwarts, the nights where he goes into the Girls' Bathroom and sneaks into the same Restricted Section, but with finding a way out in both is different while having the Invisibility Cloak in the first game, but it only prevents the prefects from seeing him from a distance which makes no sense, on the fourth day, he learns Incendio in Charms class, but in a different spell challenge on both occasions, he has a Quidditch march against Slytherin on the fifth day, he gets involved in a big boss battle after going down a trap and on the sixth day, he goes to the Great Hall for the House Cup Ceremony to end the game. It's not good because people want a brand new experience. In contrast, the GBC, PS1 & PC versions of Chamber of Secrets do a great job giving players a brand new experience from the one they had in the respective versions of Sorcerer's Stone, even though they re-used assets and gameplay elements from the previous game and made changes to the Hogwarts world map which is the right thing. The Girls' Bathroom where Harry rescues Hermione in the 2003 Sorcerer's Stone game is wrong because it should be on the first floor and not the second because the Girls' Bathroom on the second floor is Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. They should've NEVER have re-used the Hogwarts map from this game for the 2003 Sorcerer's Stone game and instead, they should've created a brand new Hogwarts map which would've made more sense. Thus, you can always play this game if you want to experience this specific Hogwarts world map which feels a lot better and you can tell why they shouldn't have used this Hogwarts world map in the 2003 Sorcerer's Stone game at all.
I showcase a door in the Cloistered Courtyard (named "Transfiguration Courtyard" in some later games) that corresponds to the Transfiguration classroom entrance in the films which can be opened on the arrival night, the first day, and the night after, and then it becomes permanently locked. By going through the door as you can see, it causes Harry to exit from another door at the top of a random nearby tower that has nothing but a small unwanted balcony to stand on and you can't do anything other than going back through the door or dodge off the side, causing Harry to fall to his fainting and respawning. The door's warp seems really pointless because it becomes inaccessible so soon, but it's worth noting that the day it becomes inaccessible is the same day that Harry earns his Nimbus 2000 to use at daytime in the Hogwarts Grounds after Quidditch Practice, so it might simply be a method to tease the rooftops before they can be freely reached, but Harry cannot land on the aforementioned balcony from his broomstick.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Arrival Night at Hogwarts
1:21 - Harry's First Day
3:33 - Neville's Toad
6:44 - The Parselmouth-onward
I must admit, a model of Ray Liotta in the PS2 version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but a model of George Carlin, both as he looked in the 1960s and in later life would look a lot better. The same goes with fellow New Yorker Kyra Sedgwick was 37 when the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets video game and movie came out in November of 2002. This game would lose the E rating (E10+ today) and be rated T or M instead if it included her character from the crime drama The Closer whose name is Brenda Leigh Johnson since that show is rated TV-14.
The reason I enjoy associating both George Carlin and Kyra Sedgwick with Harry Potter is because Carlin was involved with a British property which was Thomas & Friends while Sedgwick is an American of British descent. Thus, as a result, I connect Harry Potter to Sedgwick's husband of Kevin Bacon as well.
Drew Struzan designed a poster for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but it went unused and he did finish his work. His poster design for Sorcerer's Stone was used, however.
Three out of the four Harry Potter films that are rated PG-13 have a video game with the E10+ rating with the only exception being Deathly Hallows Part 1 which is rated T while the four Harry Potter films with a PG rating have three video games based on them with an E rating which would be rated E10+ today and the Half-Blood Prince video game is rated E10+.
Among the things that the 2003 release of the Sorcerer's Stone video game on NGC, PS2 & Xbox that make it too similar to Chamber of Secrets on NGC, PS2 & Xbox is that in both, there's an arrival night at Hogwarts and a six-day time period, Harry arrives at Hogwarts at night, goes up to the Gryffindor Common Room and learns the password to the Fat Lady's portrait as everyone except him goes in so he goes in on his own and then he sneaks past Percy to get into Fred & George's shop and then heads back to the common room as Ron tells him about it being a long day and being really tired so he's off to bed with most of the dialogue that night in the common room being the same as Chamber of Secrets, Harry has a Flying Lesson on his first day of Hogwarts, the nights where he goes into the Girls' Bathroom and sneaks into the same Restricted Section, but with finding a way out in both is different while having the Invisibility Cloak in the first game, but it only prevents the prefects from seeing him from a distance which makes no sense, on the fourth day, he learns Incendio in Charms class, but in a different spell challenge on both occasions, he has a Quidditch march against Slytherin on the fifth day, he gets involved in a big boss battle after going down a trap and on the sixth day, he goes to the Great Hall for the House Cup Ceremony to end the game. It's not good because people want a brand new experience. In contrast, the GBC, PS1 & PC versions of Chamber of Secrets do a great job giving players a brand new experience from the one they had in the respective versions of Sorcerer's Stone, even though they re-used assets and gameplay elements from the previous game and made changes to the Hogwarts world map which is the right thing. The Girls' Bathroom where Harry rescues Hermione in the 2003 Sorcerer's Stone game is wrong because it should be on the first floor and not the second because the Girls' Bathroom on the second floor is Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. They should've NEVER have re-used the Hogwarts map from this game for the 2003 Sorcerer's Stone game and instead, they should've created a brand new Hogwarts map which would've made more sense. Thus, you can always play this game if you want to experience this specific Hogwarts world map which feels a lot better and you can tell why they shouldn't have used this Hogwarts world map in the 2003 Sorcerer's Stone game at all.
