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  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(Harry Potter #2)

Author
Illustrator
Mary GrandPré
Publication Date
July 01, 1999
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Format
Chapter Book
Includes Illustrations
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)

Description

In the second book of the Harry Potter series, Harry returns to Hogwarts only to face a mysterious force that is turning students to stone.

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone — or something — starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself!

Publication date
July 01, 1999
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781338878936
Lexile Measure
940
Publisher
Scholastic
Series
Harry Potter
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV035000 - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
Library of Congress categories
Magic
Schools
England
Wizards

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review

Rowling's wonderful ability to put a fantastic spin on sports, student rivalry, and eccentric faculty, all while building a gripping mystery, makes this second installment every bit as enchanting as the first.

Copyright 1999 Publisher’s Weekly, LLC Used with permission.

School Library Journal

Starred Review

Fans of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Scholastic, 1998) won't be disappointed when they rejoin Harry, now on break after finishing his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Reluctantly spending the summer with the Dursleys, his mean relatives who fear and detest magic, Harry is soon whisked away by his friends Ron, Fred, and George Weasley, who appear at his window in a flying Ford Anglia to take him away to enjoy the rest of the holidays with their very wizardly family. Things don't go as well, though, when the school term begins. Someone, or something, is (literally) petrifying Hogwarts' residents one by one and leaving threatening messages referring to a Chamber of Secrets and an heir of Slytherin. Somehow, Harry is often around when the attacks happen and he is soon suspected of being the perpetrator. The climax has Harry looking very much like Indiana Jones, battling a giant serpent in the depths of the awesome and terrible Chamber of Secrets. Along with most of the teachers and students introduced in the previous book, Draco Malfoy has returned for his second year and is more despicable than ever. The novel is marked throughout by the same sly and sophisticated humor found in the first book, along with inventive, new, matter-of-fact uses of magic that will once again have readers longing to emulate Harry and his wizard friends.—Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA

Copyright 1999 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Kirkus Review - Children

Readers will be irresistibly drawn into Harry's world by GrandPré's comic illustrations and Rowling's expert combination of broad boarding school farce and high fantasy.

ALA/Booklist

Fans who have been thirsting for this sequel will definitely not feel any disappointment. In fact, once they have read it, they will be lusting for the next.

User
January 8, 2025
THIS BOOK IS PHENOMENAL

This book is so good with shocking plot twists, silly characters, and detailed magical mystery things. The one person who wouldn't do it did! It is such a good book and I highly recommend it.

User
November 14, 2022
i love this book
J K Rowling
J.K. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. To accompany the series, she wrote three short companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. Harry’s story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties for which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. Her latest children’s novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children’s care reform charity Lumos. J.K. Rowling lives in Scotland with her family. --- J.K. Rowling es autora de los siete libros de la famosa saga de Harry Potter. Amada por lectores de todo el mundo, la serie ha vendido más de 500 millones de ejemplares, se ha traducido a ochenta idiomas y ha inspirado ocho películas de enorme éxito de taquilla.

Ha escrito asimismo tres volúmenes complementarios con fines benéficos: Quidditch a través de los tiempos, Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos (en beneficio de Comic Relief y Lumos), y Los cuentos de Beedle el Bardo (en beneficio de Lumos), así como el guión inspirado en Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos, la primera de una serie de cinco películas que escribirá la autora. También colaboró en una obra, Harry Potter y el legado maldito, Partes Uno y Dos, que se estrenó en el West End de Londres en el verano de 2016.

En 2012 creó la plataforma digital Pottermore, donde sus fans pueden disfrutar de noticias, reportajes y artículos, así como de contenido original escrito por J.K. Rowling. Asimismo, ha escrito la novela para adultos Una vacante imprevista, y, con el seudónimo Robert Galbraith, la serie de novelas policíacas protagonizadas por Cormoran Strike.

Ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios, entre ellos la Orden del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura infantil y la Orden de los Compañeros de Honor, la Orden de la Legión de Honor de Francia y el Premio Hans Christian Andersen.
Colorado Blue Spruce Award
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Nominee 2003 - 2003
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Best-of-List 1999 - 2024
Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
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Best-of-List 1999 - 2024
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