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Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets
It's hard to fall
in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger!
And in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone, he is in terrible danger indeed. As if it's not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid
Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second
year. But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car, it is just his luck to crash into a valuable (but clearly
vexed) Whomping Willow. Still, all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted
halls of Hogwarts. Chilling, malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry, and it seems certain that his classmate
Draco Malfoy is out to get him. Soon it's not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen
at Hogwarts. The mysteriously gleaming, foot-high words on the wall proclaim, "The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies
of the Heir, Beware." But what exactly does it mean? Harry, Hermione, and Ron do everything that is wizardly possible--including
risking their own lives--to solve this 50-year-old, seemingly deadly mystery. This deliciously suspenseful novel is every
bit as gripping, imaginative, and creepy as the first; familiar student concerns--fierce rivalry, blush-inducing crushes,
pedantic professors--seamlessly intertwine with the bizarre, horrific, fantastical, or just plain funny. Once again, Rowling
writes with a combination of wit, whimsy, and a touch of the macabre that will leave readers young and old desperate for the
next installment.
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