Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling
Bloomsbury. First published 1998.
In this second installment of the series, a few new ideas are introduced. We have the whomping tree and the flying car - a brilliant touch to make it a Ford Anglia. We are also introduced to polyjuice potion and house elves and so on. The structure of the story is the same as in the first book. Summer holidays with the Dursleys, off to Hogwarts, run-in with various teachers, high jinks, fights with the bully, and the final face-off against Voldemort, after which Harry and the readers learn more about the 'history' of the magical world. J.K. Rowling made her books darker and darker as the series progressed, and as her initial set of child fans grew to be teenagers. This volume, however, is written with much the same atmosphere of the first one.
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