Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Author: (English) J.K. Rowling; Translated by Ma Aixin
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: After studying at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a year, Harry Potter's summer vacation begins. He spends a painful holiday with his aunt and uncle. 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 pompous and nauseating; the ghost "Moaning Myrtle" haunting the girls' bathroom disturbs him; the younger girl Ginny often looks at him with concern, making him feel awkward; and the boy Colin Creevey, in his star-struck pursuit, often leaves him running for cover. However, all this is merely the prelude to greater disasters. Just as Dobby predicted, Harry faces countless trials and dangers, and the mysteries surrounding him are a source of great frustration: students at Hogwarts are turning into stone one after another. Is this the masterwork of the morally corrupt student Draco Malfoy? Or an innocent mistake by the kind-hearted Hagrid? Or is someone else plotting a greater conspiracy at Hogwarts? And does all this have something to do with the legendary Chamber of Secrets? Determined to uncover the truth, Harry sets out to solve the mystery.