Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter, #2

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Bloomsbury)

506 pages

English language

Published April 23, 2002 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
9780747560722
OCLC Number:
1023161147

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Harry Potter can’t wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a Chamber of Secrets, holding unknown horrors for wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that turn people to stone, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect – always in the wrong place – is Harry. But something much more terrifying has yet to be unleashed. Source: harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-large-print-edition-9780747560722

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1 star

The second book in this series is still written in present tense. It gets slightly worse though, as sentences dealing with the relative past are formed incorrectly.

The author’s A/Ns get worse, too.

Harry has some successes and otherwise keeps being his oblivious self.

And then, in the midst of a chapter, without this being recognisable, the author explodes the fourth wall, and the fifth to go with it, and switches to their PoV and basically deals with the rest of the year (which is just most of it) in a short bullet-point list and ends it. Just like that.

This is utterly insulting.

The only saving grace might be that the author hates Year 2 and might recover a bit for Year 3… might. But nothing of that is published yet.

Woah, going from five stars to one in just 10½ rather short chapters. (Even less, considering most …

Subjects

  • Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
  • Wizards -- Juvenile fiction
  • Witches -- Juvenile fiction
  • Children's stories, English