A Thought about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Last week I was in a reading slump so I decided to reread Harry Potter after a long time. When I started the second book in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a thought came to me - and to J.K. Rowling, as I just read :) - regarding Tom Riddle's diary and how it "trapped" Ginny Weasley. source Even though the book was written in 2002, when cyber attacks weren't that much of a thing, the diary has many similarities to social media. Many teenagers have started conversations with strangers, opened up to them and at the end they were assaulted, exactly like Ginny Weasley with Tom Riddle's Diary. Those kind of incidents happen usually in girls with low self-esteem or girls who are uncomfortable with opening-up in reality so they find shelter in the unknown person behind their screen or - in Ginny's case - a diary which replies instantly. It is very difficult to spot cyber attacks, as the victims are, in their majority, already ve...