by Joel Penner HARRY POTTER AND the Chamber of Secrets is another gigantically popular book by J.K. Rowling. Like the first, third and a majority of the fourth, it is written amazingly well. Harry has been at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry before, so he knows some spells. So that means that Harry could possibly threaten his mean adoptive parents, the Dursleys, which is what they are most afraid of. But eventually the Dursleys find out that Harry is not allowed to do magic outside of Hogwarts and lock Harry’s door and bar up his window, hoping to keep Harry away from the school. Harry escapes the Dursleys’ evil clutches and unsurprisingly ends up at Howarts again. At Hogwarts, Harry has another adventurous year. A place called the Chamber of Secrets has been opened again, and because of Harry’s scar, he is largely involved with a series of incidents. The Chamber of Secrets is rumoured to have been created hundreds of years ago by one of the creators of Hogwarts, Salzar Slytherin. The only person who can open the Chamber of Secrets and let out the horrible monster is the heir of Slytherin. The monster within the Chamber of Secrets can instantly kill anybody that looks it straight in the eye. If you look at it through a mirror, you will be petrified. The person helping the heir of Slytherin is someone you would least expect... The reason I liked this book is because it is adventurous, and the characters are always going somewhere or doing something exciting. I don’t think that I came across any boring parts in the whole book. At the end, it is very exciting and scary. It is very hard to stop reading once you are at an exciting part, like the end, even on my second time through this book! Overall, I would recommend this awesome book to anyone, but be sure to read the first book in the series before you read this! Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Schlastic Trade Books, 2000. 341 pages.     You can respond to the author here (responses may be posted) or on our messageboard.