**AUDIOBOOK** 
 Best decision ever to start "reading" Harry Potter while riding/driving around for work. 
 I remember reading this when I was younger and getting SO CONFUSED about who Tom Riddle was ha. After reading this I completely and understand the diary and the huge part that it played! (view spoiler)[Tom Riddle captured himself prior to graduating from Hogwarts inside the diary. That way even though he couldn't return personally to the school he would always be there. Draco's father tricked Ginny into writing in the diary to release Tom Riddle from the diary. When Tom and Harry confronted each other Harry learned that Tom Riddle = Voldemort from 50 years earlier. His soul you could say was trapped within the diary. (hide spoiler)] I never really realized either how much a part that Ginny played in this book compared to the movies! We also got to meet/see Dobby for the first time in this book! Love him! (view spoiler)[Harry sets him free by tricking Mr. Malfoy into giving him a nasty sock along with Riddle's diary. (hide spoiler)] 
 Any scene with Lockhart had me rolling my eyes. He was so annoying! The end though was hilarious and he got his own piece of medicine (view spoiler)[when he tried to take away Ron & Harrys memories only for it to back fire and take away all of his own! (hide spoiler)]. The defense against the dark arts teaching position is just cursed in a way of its own ha.