Harry Potter 

and therefore the Chamber of Secrets.

The second book in the JK Rowling series, a young, orphan wizard named Harry Potter begins
shortly after his twelfth birthday at the top of July. Harry lives together with his mother’s sister
Petunia and her husband and son, Vernon and Dudley Dursely on a quiet street in Surrey.
However, Harry isn't as normal just like the rest of his family, and from September until June
he lives during a huge hidden castle somewhere in England called Hogwarts. many other boys
and girls live at Hogwarts too, where together they're all learning magic. a number of them are
from wizarding families, whilst others get older knowing nothing of the magical world and
receive letters on their eleventh birthday telling them that those strange abilities they’ve always
had are actually impotent magical powers.
It is Harry’s second year at Hogwarts and there he has two very close friends Ron Weasley and
Hermione Granger, a origin wizard and muggle born respectively. After the shocks of Harry’s
first year at Hogwarts, where he discovered that the person who murdered his parents lives ,
albeit a sort of half life, draining the life from others, and seeking how to return himself back to
his full health and power. This man’s name is Lord Voldermort.
In the second book we start to realize an insight into Voldermort, as Harry, without realising it,
drifts into the memories of his nemesis through an enchanted diary. Harry isn't the
primary person to possess Voldermorts memories however, actually Ron’s younger sister
Ginny, who is in her first year at Hogwarts, has been pouring her heart out into the pages of the
diary for months and therefore the diary, disguised as a caring ear to Ginny, has been using her
life to become more and more powerful himself. As Voldermort’s power has grown he has used
Ginny to unleash a deadly terror upon Hogwarts, an unknown killer that seems untraceable and
leaves his victim’s paralyzed by fear.
Harry meanwhile, begins to listen to menacing voices, voices only he can hear and strange
messages begin appearing across the varsity proclaiming that any student not a full-blood
wizard will die which the “Chamber of Secrets” has been re-opened.
Together, Harry, Ron and Hermione begin to research , trying to get what the Chamber of
Secrets is, and what could possibly be attacking the scholars . Whilst in one among the
memories locked within the diary Harry learns that his part giant teacher and friend, Rubius
Hagrid, was expelled from Hogwarts as a toddler for keeping a dangerous animal on the
grounds. To Ron’s horror the 2 boys discover that the monster was an enormous , man-eating
spider, but even worse that he's not the one who has been attacking the scholars .
Eventually Hermione is found paralyzed on her way back from the library and a student is
dragged into the Chamber of Secrets together final sacrifice to the monster before Voldermort
can finally be returned to full strength.
Harry finds himself, separated from Ron and their brain-washed Defence Against the Dark Arts
teacher who had accompanied him, within the caverns beneath the varsity and facing an
enormous , deadly snake, with nothing but his wand and a tattered old hat.
This book is more of a mystery than its predecessor; with a true air of intrigue and uncertainty
about it. Yet it finds itself during a slightly awkward position, somewhere between childhood
innocence and naivety and darker teenage horror. In many places it seems a touch obvious and
ham-fisted, Rowling seems to possess opted for stereotypes instead of originality in these
monsters and it makes it all a touch contrived.
Unfortunately this is often inescapable and dulls the intrigue and interest of the book, in some
ways this book came timely , when the dark side of the magical world was still too undefined
for readers for it to really be explored to the extent that it must be for this story. Yet it's a
necessary a part of the series and must be read so as to know the subsequent five books.
In some ways the Chamber of Secrets opens doors to aspects of the Harry Potter series which
will become hugely important afterward , ideas about Voldermort’s past and his soul and even
his option to hunt Harry begin to require shape and future relationships are hinted at.
However, when it comes right down to it The Chamber of Secrets is most definitely the weakest
of all the Potter books, the story line is predictable and therefore the newly introduced
characters are pretty stereotypical and just increase the aforementioned predictability.
The books best asset is that the stuff with Lord Voldermort and Tom Riddle, the finale within
the Chamber of Secrets is way better than the remainder of the book; which seems to exist
largely of ridiculous filler moments, like an event with a cat hair and a few polyjuice
potion, instead of slowly gathering information throughout the story to create to a climax. it's a
shame that longer isn’t dedicated to Tom Riddle and therefore the mysteries of Voldermort’s
past, but that's reserved for afterward within the series. Without it however, this book sits
more within the thriller/mystery section, despite its fantastical elements, and even seated there
it’s not the simplest book on the shelf.
It does have its positive points, of course, because the characters develop and therefore
the mysterious and interesting magical world is made upon, getting stronger with every word.
Where within the first book everything is new the second book builds on the already established
understanding and really sets up the remainder of series.