Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets [Hardcover]

The summer after his first year at Hogwarts is worse than ever for Harry Potter. The Dursleys of Privet Drive are more horrible to him than ever before. And just when he thinks the endless summer vacation is over, a creature named Dobby the house-elf shows up issuing a grave warning to Harry not to go back to school or disaster will happen! Of course, Harry has to go back- and he does so in grand style, in a flying-car magicked by his friends Ron and Percy Weasley. But getting back to Hogwarts isn't the cure Harry expects it to be. Almost immediately a student is found turned to stone, and then another. And somehow Harry stands accused. Could Harry Potter be the long-feared heir of Slytherin?Harry and friends Hermione and Fred are stretched to their limits in a desperate fight against Draco Malfoy and his gang, the hideously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockheart, the malevolent owner of the diary of Tom Riddle, giant spiders, and perhaps even...Hagrid!This is the book that proves J.K. Rowling is a talent that's here to stay!

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter books. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first was published asHarry Potter and the Philosophers Stonein the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication ofHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity,Quidditch Through the AgesandFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, andThe Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. She also collaborated on the writing of a stage play,Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was published as a script book.

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