Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling shared by taamr

The book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets depicts Harry Potter (a boy who lived a magical curse driven by the powerful sorcerer, Voldemort) once again, in his second year at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The story starts off illustrating Harry at his despicable, loathed Aunt’s and Uncle’s house (his temporary guardians). After accidentally humiliating his uncle, Harry gets locked up in his room with no way to escape. Yet luckily, he is rescued by none other than his best friend, Ronald Weasley in a flying car. At Ron’s house, Harry is shown a new way of transportation and is then introduced to a far unusually cocky man named, Gilderoy Lockhart. When it is finally time to board the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Ron miss the train. However, Harry and Ron do make it to Hogwarts via flying car, but get into far more trouble than expected. When it is time for classes to be in session, Harry learns that the unusually cocky man that he met was his new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. After a few weeks, when Harry and Ron are in detention for the flying car incident, Harry starts to hear strange voices inside the walls of Hogwarts. He then finds a petrified cat, and large words written in blood saying, “the chamber of secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir beware.” Now, Harry, Ron, and Hermione (another good friend of Harry’s), set out to figure out more regarding the Chamber of Secrets. After months of judgment, all three find out that the Chamber of Secrets was a place in Hogwarts where a powerful wizard, Salazar Slytherin, had built a chamber where he kept a monstrous creature in his custody. At one point, Harry finds a diary in the girl’s bathroom; he discovers that the diary had belonged to someone named Tom M. Riddle and that it has unusual and bizarre powers. Powers such as, when Harry had written, “Hello, my name is Harry Potter,” it responded, “Hello Harry, my name is Tom Marvolo Riddle.” Amazed, Harry started to ask questions about the Chamber of Secrets. The diary told him that he, Tom Riddle, had seen Hagrid, his close friend, open the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago, and set a monstrous animal into the castle. A few days following this event, Harry and Ron ascend off to Hagrid’s and discover that he has to go to Azkaban (Wizard Prison). Nevertheless, before leaving, Hagrid does tell them this, “Follow the spiders.” Aching to solve this puzzle, Harry and Ron set off to follow the spiders; however, they are discontinued to learn that their dear friend, Hermione Granger was petrified. They still continue though, for they know that this was what Hermione had wanted them to do. Several nights later, Harry and Ron sneak into the Forbidden Forest to follow the spiders. They discover the monster that killed the girl fifty years before was not a spider. They also discover that a girl's body was found in a bathroom the night the real monster attacked, and that Hagrid is innocent. Yet, seconds later, the boys almost get killed by a colony of giant spiders. As they escape, Harry and Ron decide their friend Moaning Myrtle from the bathroom must have been the girl killed by the monster. When Harry and Ron go to meet Hermione in the Hospital, Harry finds a crumpled up old paper inside her hand. It had described a snake called a basilisk. They finally deduce that the Chamber monster is a basilisk. Before the boys act on their knowledge, the teachers announce that Ginny Weasley (Ron’s little sister) has been taken into the chamber. Harry and Ron find out that the Chamber entrance was in the bathroom itself where their friend Moaning Myrtle was killed. While Ron waited, Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets to encounter Ginny Weasley’s still body and Tom Riddle (the man from the diary). To Harry’s surprise, Tom turns out to be a younger version of Voldemort, who has been enchanting Ginny through his diary. Harry calls for help from Dumbledore and suddenly, A phoenix and a magic hat arrive. Tom finally summons the basilisk; yet, the hat produces a sword, which Harry uses to kill the giant snake. Harry sticks a basilisk’s fang through the diary, destroying Tom and awakes Ginny. Harry explains his adventure to Dumbledore, and once again, all is well in the castle as the students leave for their summer vacations.