Harry returns to Hogwarts to start his second year. Upon returning he learns that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened again and anyone whose both parents are not wizards will be killed by Heir of Slytherin which includes Hermione. Harry, Ron, and Hermione meet Moaning Myrtle who is the ghost of a girl who was killed the previous time that the Chamber was open. Myrtle shows Harry a diary through which he discovers that fifty years ago Tom Riddle, the Head Boy, blamed Rubeus Hagrid for opening the Chamber. However, a while later the diary is stolen. Not long after the diary is stolen, Hermione is petrified by a serpent but discovers that if she does not look the serpent directly in the eyes she will only be petrified. The serpent tries to get her to look him directly in the eyes so that he can kill her with his gaze. Ron’s sister is taken to the Chamber and Harry and Ron seek Lockhart’s help who is the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Lockhart is a fraud and tries to erase Harry and Ron’s memories several times one of which using Ron’s wand. However, the wand does not work properly and the action backfires and gives Lockhart amnesia and making part of the tunnel to the Chamber collapse and separating Harry from Ron and Lockhart. Ron tries to get through the rubble of the tunnel and Harry enters the Chamber to find Ginny who is lying by the diary. Tom Riddle appears and tells Harry that he is a memory in the diary. Ginny had written in the diary and Tom gained her trust by seeming to understand her hopes and fears only to use Ginny to open the Chambers. Harry also learns that Tom is Voldemort as a boy. Upon all of this happening Ginny realized her mistake and threw the diary away which is how Harry acquired it. Tom releases the serpent to kill Harry but Harry kills the serpent with a sword but not before being bitten by the serpent. Tom is celebrating Harry’s defeat and that Harry is dying. However, Fawkes cries on Harry’s wound and heals it and uses the fang from the serpent to stab the diary which causes Tom to vanish. Harry tells Dumbledore that he is afraid that he too much like Tom Riddle to which Dumbledore responds that Harry is a true member of the Gryffindor House and only a true member could have killed the serpent with the sword that Harry use.
I enjoyed reading this book because it continued the first Harry Potter book which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. This book is one that is filled with adventure and as a reader you cannot put down and cannot wait to read the next one.
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