Book #5: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, happens to be my least favorite of the seven. However, I enjoyed reading it a lot more this time around and I found a lot of things that I hadn't noticed before, which was surprising and fun. I've read this book a total thirteen times now and I am retiring my first edition copy to buy a new one, as this one is a bit frayed and dying, unfortunately. Throwing it in my backpack over the course of seven years and packing it numerous times in bags and boxes has not done it any kind of good.
Inside flap:
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was o get back to Hogwarts School of 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 that 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!
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Kelly <3