Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling

...my least favourite of the Harry Potter books. It just seems to lack the same readability, the same flowing story-line, and it gives me a funny feeling of dread every time I read it. So where has the magic gone? ======================== First of all the plot and tone of the book are noticeably darker than the first book 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. This means that you don't get the same feel-good attraction when reading it... I must ...
...before that even though the Harry Potter books are a good read, full of creative links to mythology and the Classics, JK Rowling isn't the best story teller in the world. Her enthusiasm and imagination surpass her actually writing ability; this is why her books are so popular. But there are some things that really get on my nerves. For example JK Rowling has a nasty habit of re-telling the whole of Harry's life story in each of her books following ...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the series that has been wrote by the great author JK Rowling. It follows on from the first book that she wrote and leads on nicely to the next book in the series. The Harry Potter books have been out in the world for quite some time now although the sixth book in the series has only been out for about a year now, but I am sure that most people in the world know the books staring Harry ...
...The plot As Harry ends his first year at Hogwarts he is then sent home again for the summer holidays and it is not trusted by the Dursley's one little bit. Dudley is now ever so careful about what he says to Harry and Vernon is always threatening about what will happen if he uses his magic in his house or against his family. Whilst Harry was staying at the Dursley's in the summer it was his birthday and he considers it the worst birthday that he ...

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...but the second one – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – was the first time I had read a book in this series without knowing what was going to happen! So, did it pass the test? Or was it just an over-hyped children’s’ book? I’ll tell you what I thought of it in a minute – but the one problem I was having as a thirty-two year old reading a kids’ book was that I did worry it didn’t look right. ...
...– ‘Look! Miss is reading Harry Potter!’ This led us on to discussions about the characters, the film and the series of novels. Miss was IN! So, that was one problem over, but intellectual snobbery can be conquered. However, was it worth it? Did I enjoy the book? Well, YES, I LOVED IT!! I enjoyed it much more than the first book, probably just because each page was a surprise on this one. I went into it knowing nothing, but expecting ...

KarenUK 29.11.2001 · Read full review
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...bolt with the first, excellent Harry Potter tale, HP and the Philosopher's Stone (HP1 to keep things short), needn't have worried, for her follow up story, 1998's HP and the Chamber of Secrets (HP2, of course), if anything, outdoes the original and develops the myth of the boy wizard in a tale which is much darker, much more gripping and totally absorbing. I mocked Mrs D and her childlike wonder after reading the Potter stories, but had my sarcasm ...
...she had previously captivated. Harry still had his hated tormenters from HP1, Draco Malfoy and the sinister Professor Snape, to deal with, but the real bane of his life this time around was Gilderoy Lockhart, the newly appointed teacher of Defence against the Dark Arts. Harry's not sure if it's his wavy blonde hair and the suspicion of rollers, or the gleaming teeth of his smile, or the endless chummy chummy nature of the relationship that he thinks ...

dave27 28.10.2001 · Read full review
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...plunge and read the first Harry Potter book (The Philosopher’s Stone) I am now hooked. So I begged a colleague at work to ask her son if I could borrow the remaining books in the series (being too tight to buy my own). So on Friday, she turned up at work with the remaining 3 books – I finished the 1st one by Saturday, the 2nd one on Sunday and am about to start on the last one! But for now, I will concentrate on the second book in the ...
...haven’t yet been tempted by Harry Potter), Harry is a twelve year-old boy who was orphaned when he was a baby. His parents were a well-known witch and wizard, but Harry was not aware of this until his eleventh birthday. He was rescued from a life of misery with his aunt and uncle and enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he met his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. I won’t go into the full history ...

jools30 27.11.2001 (15.10.2002) · Read full review
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the book about Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. There are four books in total so far (and three more to come) - one per school year. You should always read the Harry Potter books in the correct sequence, which is: 1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Harry Potter and ...
...As with the other Harry Potter books - once I had started to read it, I could not easily put it down before I had finished reading. As all the other books, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets starts with Harry being at home with the Dursleys, his aunt and uncle who do not really like him. When the Dursleys expected important visitors at home, Harry was told to stay in his room and by no means to disturb the dinner. However, when he went into ...

Michael-S 11.12.2001 · Read full review
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...write a review of the Harry Potter books, because so much happens. However, I will endeavour to give it my best shot! **Blurb** (from the back of the book) "Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last..." **Plot** (minor spoilers) Chamber of Secrets continues the story of the boy wizard. He is now twelve years old, and ...
...a very important dinner party, Harry encounters an odd-looking creature, who we later learn is Dobby the House Elf. He warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts, but obviously Harry does not heed his message and is soon on his way back to school in a flying Ford Anglia, accompanied by his best friend Ron Weasley. Like in Philosopher's Stone, it soon becomes clear that this is not going to be an uneventful year. When mysterious writing is daubed on the ...

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...Rowling's second book in the Harry Potter series. Inevitably as a follow up, it lacks some of the freshness and inovation of its predescessor, but happily, it builds well on the first book and is largely satisfying. If you haven't read the first book, read some ops about it if you want this to make any sense. Harry Potter spends a dreadful time with his relatives, the Dursley's before being rescued by the Weasley's and taken to their house for the ...
...trying to persudae Harry not to go back to school, but despite mising the train and having to 'borrow' a flying car, he's determined to get back to Hogwarts, the magical school. It is soon clear that some new and dastardly plot if afoot, and that the school is in very real danger from an ancient plot. The founder of Slytherine has left something nasty for his followers to take advantage of, and when strange things start to happen, rumour has it that ...

Bryn_Pearson 28.11.2001 · Read full review
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. I have already written an opinion on the first book, if you are interested in a bit more detail, but to set the scene, Harry Potter is no ordinary boy, he discovered a year ago that he was a wizard, and after a very unhappy childhood spent living with his Muggle (the wizarding word for non-magic people!) aunt and uncle, he has just finished his ...
...home with the Dursleys. Harry hopes that his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, will stay in touch during the summer, but is disappointed when he doesn’t hear from them. Then, at the end of the holidays, he gets a visit from Dobby, the house-elf, who tries to warn Harry that he is in danger and shouldn’t go back to Hogwarts. Despite Dobby’s best efforts, Harry makes it to Hogwarts (despite getting both himself and Ron into trouble in ...

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...the DVD of the first Harry Potter film, I thought it fit to move onto the second book, 'The Chamber Of Secrets', which carries on with the adventures and escapades of Harry Potter, and his two close school friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Grainger, this time in their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. JK Rowling did such a good job with the first book, as the characters were so well defined, they felt like I knew them, but ...
...The book starts with Harry being back home with the only relatives, the hateful Dursley's as it is summer break. They are even more ashamed of him than ever, as the idea of him learning wizardry make them uncomfortable to say the least, and whilst they do not make him live in the cupboard under the stairs any longer, he is still banished to his room whenever they entertain visitors. It is one of these nights that Harry is visited by a house elf called ...

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...the second book in the Harry Potter series ( so far there have been 4 books released and the next book and film will be released very soon!) Previously.... Harry Potter finds out in the last book that his parents were wizard and witch and were killed by Lord Vordemort rather than dying in a car crash as his nasty uncle and aunt had always told him. More unusual than that Lord Vordemort had tried to kill Harry too but for some strange and unknown ...
...powers and flee and baby Harry came out of the attack with nothing more than a lightening shaped scar on his forehead. Fast forward 10 years and Harry is living with his Uncle and Aunt and their podgy son Dudley and having a pretty miserable life. Enter Hagrid the Hogwarts gamekeeper who is sent to give Harry his enrollment letter from Hogwarts Academy (wizarding school) and Harry's life is turned upside down. He goes to take his place in the wizarding ...

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...publication of the adventures of Harry Potter – I think the greatest part of you know that already. Like the first one, the story started in number four, Privet Drive where lived together with his aunt Petunia, his uncleVernon and his cousin Dudley. And like in the first novel, Harry is treat very badly. His parents were killed by Lord Voldemort when he was only one year old and in the view of his only remaining relations he is an abnormal ...
...Not carrying about this warning Harry arrived together with his best friend Ron Weasley in Hogwarts, on the first september. And things started to go on the same way like last year. As quite as normal as it is possible in the world of magic. But on Halloween everything changed when a cat was found in the floors of Hogwarts – nearly frightened to dead. On the wall next to her someone has written: “Enemies of the heir of Slytherin beware. ...

SoerkeKlein 26.10.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling

JK Rowling's Harry Potter returns in this best selling sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Harry Potter is a series of seven books in which a boy discovers that he is a wizard and goes to learn magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (For more on the basics of the series, see my review for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone). The story opens with Harry living back with the Dursley's during the summer holidays. ...
...of the way. But when Harry notices a house elf in his bedroom, it looks like the evening may not go as planned! The house elf (named Dobby) warns Harry that there will be a great danger at Hogwarts this year, and that Harry should not go. But, when Harry refuses to agree not to go, Dobby casts a spell which ruins the dinner downstairs... An official warning from the Ministry of Magic arrives, who think that Harry was the one who cast the spell. ...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets continues the story of Harry Potter. Harry was orphaned at an early age, and condemned to live with the Dursleys, his nasty relatives who want nothing to do with the magical world. In the first book of the series Harry attends Hogwarts ( a school for wizards) and makes friends with Hermione and Ron. The second book continues the story of Harry Potter. The Plot When Hogwarts was built by the four wizards (Gryffindor, ...
...open the chamber. As Harry begins to attend Hogwarts for his second year the Chamber of Secret’s is mysteriously opened and a foul creature is let loose, causing mayhem and fear to run riot around the school. Harry, Hermione and Ron, sure that their evil nemesis Malfoy is the heir to Slytherin, set out to prove this fact and save the school from immanent closing. This story introduces a few new characters. We meet Ron’s sister who is ...

Simoncook1 27.03.2001 · Read full review
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Well that's what I thought, I did think that the first was absolutely brilliant and I was so upset when I finished it that I went straight out and bought the second one and then that week I even bought the third and fourth ones too! Now I have finished the second one in less time than it took me to read the first and its 251 pages long which is about 25 pages longer then the first and they do appear to be getting longer especially when you look ...
...both the 3rd and the 4th so look out for them when I have finished! Anyway, back to the book and it is a similar story to the first book only at the beginning of this book when he is traveling to Hogwarts he misses the Hogwarts Express train and he and Ron have to travel by a flying car, which just happens to be on the front cover of the book! There is also a few reminders of certain things like Quidditch the broomstick game which aren't necessary ...

princesssoapy 07.08.2001 · Read full review
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