Secrets of The Chamber of Secrets - Chapters 1-4

Chapter 2, Moment 2: A simple yet ridiculously fun game.
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     The chapters released for The Chamber of Secrets in Pottermore already have a plethora of fun surprises and new experiences (as well as, you guessed it - secrets), and they've only released the first four chapters! Here is a little guide that should help you through your journey as you continue your exploration of the world of Harry Potter.

Items For Your Trunk

Chapter 4, Moment 2, a moment rich in items you can
collect and put in your trunk. Source

     As you explore the first four chapters of The Chamber of Secrets, you will find a variety of new objects for your trunk - many of which, oddly enough, are individual Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans. While you journey through these chapters, stay on the lookout for at least 6 of these delicious jelly beans, as well as some fire tongs, floo powder, a hairpin, a mask, some pruning shears, a key to the Burrow's scullery, and of course, your second year shopping list, which is required. Keep in mind that some of these objects may unlock previously inaccessible areas in moments you have already explored, so once you've gone through every moment once, I would suggest going through them all again.

     And keep an eye out for the chocolate frog cards detailing Bertie Bott, Cornelius Agrippa, Ignatia Wildsmith, Miranda Goshawk, and Newt Scamander.

     Don't forget to look for the following books: Charm your own Cheese, Enchantment in Baking, Encyclopedia of Toadstools, Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests, Magical Me, and One Minute Feasts - It's Magic! Don't waste your time looking for the comic book The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle, like I did; unfortunately, it's not collectible. Don't forget, more books are available to buy at Flourish and Blotts in Diagon Alley once you have collected your shopping list; these books are all required.

     Also, you may find a few more Galleons then you are used to...

Potion Ingredients

There's more to this garden then meets the eye... Source

     There is no scarcity of potion ingredients in these chapters, and throughout them the following ingredients are scattered: flower heads, a jar of honey, dried nettles, rose thorns, horklump juice, a dragon liver, and a sprig of peppermint. Keep a close lookout and remember to hover over any suspicious-looking plant, shelf, or cupboard, and the non-suspicious looking ones too, if your not very good at reading the facial expressions and body language of plants, shelves, and cupboards. 

Games/Puzzles

De-Gnoming the Garden, my favorite game so far. Source

     The newly released chapters also include several more fun games, the most sophisticated of which is De-gnoming the Garden, in which you must throw four gnomes over the hedge bordering the Weasley's Garden in 98 seconds. You get a bonus if you manage to throw a gnome past the stump outside the garden, and your farthest throw is recorded until you beat it.
     Another strange but wonderful game is Aunt Petunia's Pudding (see first picture), in which one must keep Aunt Petunia's "masterpiece of a pudding" afloat in the air for 14 seconds before watching it fall to the ground with a satisfying splat.
     In Chapter 4 one must play a memory game to obtain the second-year shopping list. It can be solved in three ways; through logic, through quick thinking and memory (using the hint), or by reading part of The Chamber of Secrets. You could cheat, too, of course, but what would be the fun in that?

Recap

     All in all, I would say The Chamber of Secrets has been even better than The Philosopher's Stone was, so far. It was more interactable, and the exclusive content was much more detailed and, to put it simply, much more exclusive. There were more games and puzzles, and the art was fantastic, including even more detailed images of the main characters than the first book this far in, although we still haven't seen Gilderoy Lockart yet. So, if you haven't done so already, go and explore the first chapters of The Chamber of Secrets, and if you have, explore them more!