Chapter 101: Volume Two Summary

Volume Two Summary

Explaining the overall setting and some hidden plot lines

The title of the second volume is "Harry Potter and Avalon". Avalon is the ideal land in Celtic legend, but in modern context, it often refers to a tabletop game.

The rules of the tabletop game Avalon involve six to ten people holding different identities, each with their own winning conditions. They guess other players' identities through speaking and vote to make a series of decisions, calculating winning conditions based on these decisions. Overall, it is very similar to Werewolf (also known as Murder Game).

The feature of Avalon is that the Blue side doesn't need to find all the Red side; they just need to complete the tasks to have a high probability of winning (public opinion and results are more important). The Red side doesn't need to deliberately lie; they just need to recognize their own identity to turn the tables and win (truth is more important).

The meetings of the group of eight are actually based on these two points to analyze the essence of the Chamber of Secrets incident step by step. The theme of this volume is actually to deconstruct the Chamber of Secrets incident using the form and core of the tabletop game Avalon; the hidden realm is just a bonus.

The situations of Harry and Deng Buliduo have been analyzed many times in the text. Deng Buliduo cleverly used the tactic of "letting the enemy's plan succeed to trap them," and Harry's astonishing growth in politics—undoubtedly, they are the biggest beneficiaries of the Chamber of Secrets incident.

The Death Eaters' conspiracy is actually very simple: just let Harry get the diary. When Voldemort was briefly resurrected on the train, he noticed that Harry was also his Horcrux. This way, with Harry holding the diary, the safekeeping of the Horcrux would be safer. If Harry trusted the diary, then Harry, who was already a leader, could protect the diary. If Harry didn't trust the diary, then the diary's self-destruction could once again elevate Harry's status, and no one would be able to suspect Harry again. Voldemort's plan was very clever; the only problem was that he ignored the possibility of Harry discovering the truth and choosing to sacrifice himself. But with his awareness, he certainly wouldn't have thought of this point.

As for the third-party forces Tang Tang Nade and Cui Ge, Cui Ge succeeded, and Lu Na accepted him; the ignorant early puppy love began. But Tang Tang Nade needs to experience a phased failure, partly because of respecting the curse in the original work, and partly to make way for Lu Ping. And here, I will give a spoiler in advance: Tang Tang Nade is not a good person in the standard sense. Most readers might not want to see him with Hermione, but for a long time, although Harry can see through his true face, he has to cooperate with him for the sake of interests. This involves the outline design, which is to ensure that Tang Tang Nade can continue to participate in the plot advancement in subsequent writing. Please understand appropriately; eventually, this scumbag will meet his retribution and regret.

Speaking of this, you will find that the truth of the Chamber of Secrets is actually not important. What is important is that Harry deeply realizes that "appearance, public opinion, and truth are equally important, and sometimes even more important than the truth." It can be said that Harry has grown up politically (he hasn't started growing emotionally yet). Compared to the original work, it's even a "darkening," so that the subsequent plot can have more designs. Otherwise, Harry Potter would forever be a fairy tale of a righteous protagonist slaying the Demon King.

At the same time, considering that the second volume of the original work contains suspense elements, but how to reproduce this suspense when the reader knows the whole truth became a problem. Therefore, eight people using the diary simultaneously were introduced, as well as the attack details that were a hair's breadth away. And the design of the truth also followed the commandments of detective novels. To increase the suspense elements, many chapter titles also borrowed from Sherlock Holmes' case names.

The overall truth of the Chamber of Secrets will be revealed step by step later. I will state the commandments followed by the truth design in advance, hoping that readers (readers who have read the original Harry Potter, including the Fantastic Beasts movies and the Cursed Child stage play) can make some of their own guesses after this volume ends.

Supplementing the commandments of detective novels: the criminal is someone who has appeared in the story; the criminal means and detection means do not exceed the scope of the original magical abilities; there are no secret passages not mentioned in the original work; Harry is not the criminal and the information he obtains is the same as the reader's; Harry's idiot friend (Luo En) will speak his thoughts without reservation; twins or extremely similar people in the novel will be notified in advance (in fact, for this point, we notified in advance that Polyjuice Potion was stolen); and there must be Chinese people appearing in the novel (this point is because if readers see Chinese people appearing in the novel, they will feel very close and interesting, and will want to keep reading).

Finally, some hidden plot lines that will not be explained later will be given a definitive statement in the summary.

The Avalon Hidden Realm was proposed by Tang Tang Nade and implemented by Deng Buliduo as a large-scale amusement project prepared for Harry and Luo En (so it contains some meme-related items). Tang Tang Nade donated a set of custom magical armor and a spell, and Deng Buliduo took the opportunity to decide to entrust Gryffindor's sword (in the original work, he did leave the sword to Harry in the seventh book).

Draco only knew that he had to hand the diary to Harry; he didn't discover any mystery in this thing. At the same time, he was also trying his best to maintain his relationship with Harry, because he didn't think Voldemort could win if he came back again. If the Dark Lord fell again, at least Draco needed a chance and connections to clear his name. This is also a manifestation of the Malfoy family betting on both sides.

Tang Mu in the diary did have ulterior motives, but facing four groups of eight different users, he himself was a bit confused, so actually, no one was affected. Tang Mu played the role of a sympathetic big brother for a term. Pan Xi-Draco live-streamed being a simp, Lu Na-Cui Ge live-streamed dog food, Jin Ni-Eve live-streamed palace intrigue, Crabbe-Goyle live-streamed having a mental breakdown. Tang Mu said it was torture.

Dobby was really acting on his own out of kindness, but because he was suppressed by Zhang Qiu on his birthday, he didn't dare to show up during the Bludger incident. He overheard their conversation and realized he had caused trouble for Harry. Because this novel doesn't need him to come out later to rescue the captured Harry, the subplot of Dobby and Harry was simply deleted. This kind of "for your own good" style of causing trouble is actually quite annoying. ===== CHAPTER 102 =====