Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the latest novel to be checked off my to be read list. This is book two in a seven part series. This is a book series that I’ve read multiple times, and I never get tired of it. Originally published in 1998, this is a series that has withstood the test of time and spanned multiple generations of readers along the way.

What is a series that you’ve read multiple times and love every single time? I would love to hear about your favorite series in the comments! Feel free to tell me all about them when you reach the end of this review.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

About Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.’

Harry Potter’s summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors – and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone… Dobby’s sinister predictions seem to be coming true.

Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter books never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers. 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

Hogwarts is a magical school, located in a magical castle, filled with hundreds of magic users, and is, naturally, full of unimaginable magical wonders, some of which have been hidden for centuries. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets delves deep into the mysteries of Hogwarts, and who knows what Harry might find there?

After enduring a long and dreadful non-magical summer with his aunt and uncle, Harry Potter finally returns to Hogwarts, the only place that has ever felt like home to him. But it doesn’t take long for him to realize that things aren’t as cozy at Hogwarts as he’d like. Students are being attacked regularly, with no sign of the culprit.

Even worse, Harry finds a diary which shows that similar attacks have previously happened in Hogwarts, some fifty years earlier. Could the same culprit be back again, unleashing the horrors of the so-called Chamber of Secrets on a new generation of students? Or perhaps is it a current student who discovered the chamber and is terrorizing his or her fellow classmates?

The mysteries keep piling on, one after another, and as always it’s up to Harry to figure things out. As in the previous book, Harry Potter must rely on his two close friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. But when evidence piles up that Harry is potentially behind the attacks, even his friends might not be enough to see him through. And what will happen when one of his friends is also a victim of the mysterious attacks?

But there’s more than just seemingly invisible monsters to contend with. There’s a new teacher at Hogwarts, a pompous braggart by the name of Gilderoy Lockhart, whose famed exploits have been made famous…in the novels he’s written about himself. Is Lockhart more than he seems? Or is he, as Harry suspects, significantly less?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Final Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a worthy second entry in the Harry Potter series. Some might say that the plot of this book is too similar to that of the Sorcerer’s Stone, but the widening scope of the wizarding world that is revealed here makes Chamber of Secrets different enough from its predecessor.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Discussion 

Have you read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets or any other writing from author J.K. Rowling? Are you a fan? Let me know your thoughts in the comments! Also, if there is a series that you absolutely love, tell me about it too! I want to know what you love reading and can read over and over again. Tell me about books that keep you excited to read.

About the Author 

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

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels for adults and children, and a bestselling crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide, been translated into 85 languages and made into eight blockbuster films. They continue to be discovered and loved by new generations of readers.

Alongside the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of her international children’s charity, Lumos. The companion books and original series are all available as audiobooks.

In 2016, J.K. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry’s story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London, and is now thrilling audiences on four continents. The script book was published to mark the plays opening in 2016 and instantly topped the bestseller lists.

In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Inspired by the original companion volume, it was the first in a series of new adventures featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander. The second, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018 and the third, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released in 2022.

The screenplays were published to coincide with each film’s release: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – The Original Screenplay (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – The Complete Screenplay (2022).

J.K. Rowling’s fairy tale for younger children, The Ickabog, was serialised for free online for children during the Covid-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020 and is now published as a book illustrated by children, with her royalties going to her charitable trust, Volant, to benefit charities helping alleviate social deprivation and assist vulnerable groups, particularly women and children.

Her latest children’s novel The Christmas Pig, published in 2021, is a standalone adventure story about a boy’s love for his most treasured thing and how far he will go to find it.

J.K. Rowling also writes novels for adults. The Casual Vacancy was published in 2012 and adapted for television in 2015. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, she is the author of the highly acclaimed ‘Strike’ crime series, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. The first of these, The Cuckoo’s Calling, was published to critical acclaim in 2013, at first without its author’s true identity being known. The Silkworm followed in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020 and The Ink Black Heart in 2022. The series has also been adapted for television by the BBC and HBO.

J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech was published in 2015 as an illustrated book, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, sold in aid of Lumos and university-wide financial aid at Harvard.

As well as receiving an OBE and Companion of Honour for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling has received many other awards and honours, including France’s Legion d’Honneur, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award and Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Award.

J.K. Rowling supports a number of causes through her charitable trust, Volant. She is also the founder and president of Lumos, an international children’s charity fighting for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world. 

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

Purchasing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

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More From J.K. Rowling

Did you enjoy my review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Need another great book in this series? Here they are!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Happy Potter and the Half Blood Price

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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