Hardcover, 251 pages
English language
Published Aug. 11, 1998 by Bloomsbury.
Harry, Ron and Hermione have returned to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Qizardry for their second year. (But Harry and Ron only just made it - they missed the Hogwarts Express and had to get ther in a flying car...!) Soon the threesome are immersed in the daily round of Potions, herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch.
But then horrible things start happening. Harry hears evil voices. Sinister messages appear on the wall. But nothing can prepare the three friends for what happens next... (front flap)
Me queda claro que Harry no quiere gastar ni un "peso" del dinero que tiene en Gringotts, así sea que destruyó propiedad ajena, así sea que el equipo donde juega necesite nuevas escobas jaja
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 …
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 of the story was still good enough.) This has to be some kind of record.
