Harry Potter Poster #23 Crabbe and Goyle Joshua Herdman Jamie Waylett

Description

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. The film, which is the second instalment in the Harry Potter film series, was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman. The story follows Harry Potter’s second year at Hogwarts as the Heir of Salazar Slytherin opens the Chamber of Secrets, unleashing a deadly monster that petrifies the school’s pupils. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry’s best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and is followed by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

It was released on 15 November 2002 in the United Kingdom and North America. The film was very well received at the box office, making US$879 million worldwide and is the 34th highest-grossing film of all time and the seventh highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter series. It was nominated for three BAFTA Film Awards in 2003.

Harry hears voices and finds caretaker Argus Filch’s cat, Mrs Norris, petrified, and a message written in blood announcing the Chamber of Secrets has been opened and threatening “enemies of the Heir”. Professor McGonagall explains that one of Hogwarts’ founders Salazar Slytherin supposedly hid a monster which only his heir can control in a secret Chamber to purge the school of impure-blooded wizards and witches. Harry suspects Malfoy is the Heir, so Hermione suggests using a Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Malfoy’s friends, Crabbe and Goyle, and ask him directly. Their makeshift laboratory is in abandoned toilets haunted by Moaning Myrtle.

Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle are Slytherin students in Harry’s year; both of their fathers, Crabbe Sr and Goyle Sr, are Death Eaters. Due to their size and strength, the pair act as Draco Malfoy’s minions and serve to intimidate fellow students, being mentioned as “existing to do Malfoy’s bidding”. Crabbe and Goyle are both brawn-over-brains type; they are entirely lacking in introspection or curiosity. They seem unable to make up their own minds or to see things their own way.

Crabbe and Goyle make their first appearance as new Slytherin Quidditch Beaters in the opening match against Gryffindor in their fifth year; after Harry catches the Snitch, Crabbe vents his frustration by purposely hitting a Bludger into Harry’s back and knocking him off his broom, but receives the light punishment of writing lines. They do not return to the team the following year, as they regularly serve as Malfoy’s lookouts during his forays into the Room of Requirement. After Malfoy leaves the school following the death of Dumbledore just before the end of the term, Crabbe and Goyle are left in a state of loneliness.

The three of them are reunited in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Both of them speak for the first time, Crabbe’s voice being described as “oddly soft for someone with his huge frame” and Goyle’s simply as a grunt. Crabbe has sided with the Death Eaters with more conviction than either Goyle or Malfoy, and becomes increasingly independent of Malfoy, well aware of the Malfoy family’s falling out of favour with Voldemort. The pair have developed into surprisingly powerful wizards. Crabbe and Goyle are mentioned as having excelled in inflicting the Cruciatus Curse on other pupils who had received detentions under Amycus Carrow’s direction: according to Neville Longbottom, it was “the first time they were the best in anything”. During the fight for the Horcrux diadem with Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in the Room of Requirement, Crabbe defies Malfoy’s order to not kill Harry and casually throws around the Avada Kedavra curse. Finally, he summons Fiendfyre and turns the room into a blazing inferno, but it quickly rages beyond his control and ultimately leads to his death and the destruction of the Horcrux. Goyle is knocked unconscious during the ensuing fight, but is rescued along with Malfoy by Harry, Ron and Hermione. Goyle and Malfoy are left mourning Crabbe’s death.

Joshua Herdman played Goyle and Jamie Waylett portrayed Crabbe in the first six films of the Harry Potter film series.

Minor fraying to one edge.

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