· Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: After studying at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a year, Harry's summer vacation begins. He endures a painful holiday at his aunt and uncle's house. Just as he is packing his bags to go back to school, the house-elf Dobby comes to warn him: if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. But Harry, undeterred, returns to Hogwarts. The new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, is pretentious and repulsive; the ghost "Moaning Myrtle" lurking in the girls' bathroom plagues him; the younger girl Ginny often gives him concerned glances, making him feel awkward; and the boy Colin Creevey, in his star-struck pursuit of Harry, frequently leaves him running for cover. However, all of this is merely the prelude to disaster. As Dobby had predicted, Harry suffers countless trials and faces numerous dangers. A mysterious puzzle torments him: students at Hogwarts are one after another turning to stone. Is this the masterwork of the morally corrupt student Draco Malfoy? Or a blunder by the kind-hearted and good-natured Hagrid? Or will someone else orchestrate a greater conspiracy at Hogwarts? And does this all have something to do with the legendary Chamber of Secrets? Determined to uncover the truth, Harry sets out to solve the mystery.