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// “ // Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets//”//, by J.K. Rowling , is the sequel to “ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ”. It is the second book in the series of seven //Harry Potter// books. Bloomsbury published the book in 1998, and has today sold almost 80 millions copies! “Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets” takes place in many different environments, but mostly at Hogwarts School. The novel starts at “Private Drive”, Harry’s home, before Rowling takes us through a whole school year at Hogwarts. Exact when the story is set doesn’t become known in the book, but generally in the early 90th.  It is summer and Harry Potter is once again back “home” with the Dursley family. He feels that the summer vacation isn’t going as he planed, he is bored. Uncle Vernon has locked Harry’s broom and all his magic stuff into a storeroom so he wouldn’t be able to reach them. Harry is starting getting worried, because he hasn’t received a single letter for him friends yet. On Harry’s 12th birthday, a house elf, called Dobby arrives to warn him that he would be in mortal danger if he returns to Hogwarts.  Harry is determined to return to Hogwarts because this is his only true home. Dobby doesn’t admit his choice so he destroys an important dinner party which uncle Vernon has arranged for a potential client and his wife. Thinking that Harry was the scapegoat, uncle Vernon decided to put bars on his windows so he wouldn’t be able to make an escape to Hogwarts. However, all of uncle Vernon’s efforts failed, when Fred, George and Ron Weasley arrives in a flying car to rescue Harry and take him to their home. Harry, who has never actually been in a wizard home before, finds “The Burrow” (their home) significant. While Harry´s stay he got to know Ron’s sister, Ginny. Ginny who is just starting Hogwarts in her firs year is overwhelmed meeting Harry. After a nice and funny month everybody includes Harry heads for platform 9 ¾ at King Cross station, to take the Hogwarts Express back to the school. To Harry and Ron’s shock they finds it impossible to enter through the magic barrier between platform 9 and 10. In their depression Ron decides to steals the magic car and then to follow the train all the way to Hogwarts. When Ron is about to land, the car suddenly gets empty of gas. They crash into the “Whomping Willow”, (a magic tree ) which immediately starts to attack, damaging the car and finally snapping Ron's wand in half. The wrecked car then disappears into the Forbidden Forest. Events at Hogwarts take a turn for the worse when the legendary Chamber Of Secrets is opened and a basilisk begins to stalk the school, petrifying anyone who meets its deathly gaze. According to the legend, the Chamber was built by Salazar Slytherin one of Hogwarts Founders. Rumors sais it only can be opened by its heir, in order to purge Hogwarts of all those who they found unworthy to study magic or 'Muggle-borns'. Many students’ suspects Harry is the heir of Slytherin because, while trying to protect a friend during a battle against Draco Malfoy, he inadvertently starts to speaks “Parseltongue”. This is the ability to talk to snakes, an unusual quality among the wizards. However, the real or true heir of Slytherin turns later out to be a memory of Tom Riddle, a former student of Hogwarts School. When Harry confronts Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets, he realized that he is a young Lord Voldemort who has been possessing and gained new energy from Ron's younger sister Ginny, through an old diary…
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