Harry learns that some in the wizarding community disdain Muggle-born wizards like Hermione, believing pure-bloods are superior. They fly in Mr Weasley's car to Hogwarts, crashing into the Whomping Willow on school grounds and damaging Ron's hand-me-down wand.
At King's Cross station, Harry and Ron are unable to enter Platform 9¾ and miss the Hogwarts Express. They run into Hermione Granger and meet Lucius Malfoy, father of Harry's nemesis Draco, and also Gilderoy Lockhart, a conceited autobiographer and adventurer who is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Harry and the entire Weasley family travel to Diagon Alley for school supplies. Ron Weasley and his brothers, Fred and George, arrive in their father's flying Ford Anglia and rescue Harry, taking him to the Weasley home. The Ministry of Magic immediately sends a notice accusing Harry of performing underage magic and threatening dismissal from Hogwarts. A furious Uncle Vernon locks Harry into his room in retaliation. Harry refuses, so Dobby magically ruins Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's dinner party. He warns that Harry is in danger and must not return to Hogwarts. While spending the summer at the Dursleys, twelve-year-old Harry is visited by a house-elf named Dobby. 3.1 Connection to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.Video games loosely based on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were also released for several platforms, and most obtained favourable reviews. The film adaptation of the novel, released in 2002, became (at the time) the fifth highest-grossing film ever and received generally favourable reviews. Institutional authority is portrayed as self-serving and incompetent. Some commentators regard the story's diary that writes back as a warning against uncritical acceptance of information from sources whose motives and reliability cannot be checked. Several commentators have noted that personal identity is a strong theme in the book and that it addresses issues of racism through the treatment of non-human, non-magical, and non-living people. Much like with other novels in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets triggered religious debates some religious authorities have condemned its use of magical themes, whereas others have praised its emphasis on self-sacrifice and the way one's character is the result of one's choices. Although Rowling says she found it difficult to finish the book, it won high praise and awards from critics, young readers, and the book industry, although some critics thought the story was perhaps too frightening for younger children.
The book was published in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1998 by Bloomsbury and later in the United States on 2 June 1999 by Scholastic Inc. Throughout the year, Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione investigate the attacks. These threats are found after attacks that leave residents of the school petrified.
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The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the " Chamber of Secrets" has been opened and that the "heir of Slytherin" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families. Rowling and the second novel in the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel written by British author J.
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