When you go to the movies today one of the first reactions you have is “but does it have post-credits?”… and you stay a little longer just in case. Marvel movies have popularized these surprises in the credits, but a couple of decades ago it was not so common and for this reason many of us missed an extra scene in ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’.
Scene with gift joke
In fact ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ It is the only film in the entire saga with this peculiarity, and many fans of the saga are realizing it twenty years after its premiere. The post-credits scene ‘Harry Potter‘ It does not serve to anticipate ‘The Prisoner of Azkaban’ or to wink at the future of the franchise, but rather it is a very short scene centered on Gilderoy Lockhart to make clear what has become of the character.
Rewinding to the final stretch of the film, we discover that the professor is actually a fraud and that he has no intention of rescuing Ginny from the Chamber of Secrets. When he tries to use a spell against Harry and Ron with Ron’s broken wand, the memory spell it turns against him and… well, it makes his brain a little mush.
So going back to the scene that you can see after all the credits, we go into Diagon Alley and you can see a book of in a window with a book of Gilderoy Lockhart in which you can read “Who Am I?”. Lockhart is also wearing a straitjacket in the cover photo and he looks totally clueless, making it clear that he has lost his memory.
This is the last time we see the character in the movies, and he brings his story to a close after the scene where the enchantment rebounds. many fans of ‘Harry Potter’ They are finding out now after revisiting the saga on HBO Max, so we have to be aware in case the revised ones leave us with any more surprises.