![]() And let’s not forget Hagrid’s friend Aragog. I love the history that Rowling creates around the Chamber. This is one of my favorite installments of the series. What monster awaits the friends this time? The fabled Slytherin Chamber of Secrets is open. It’s only happened once before and it looks like it is happening again. This is all strange, but becomes haunting when students begin to be petrified. Harry begins hearing whispers in the wall, speaks Parseltongue (snake speak), and talks to a book….literally. But then mysterious things begin happening and their safe world is rocked. All of these are just annoying for Harry and his friends, not anything they can’t handle. Then there’s the new Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, a famous wizard author and his nose so far in the air that he doesn’t notice his students’ disdain. This year Ginny Weasley will join the crew in Gryffindor, and her crush on Harry is unwanted. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are ready to return to Hogwarts. Ron and his twin brothers show up with a flying car to bust Harry out, but that’s only the beginning…. Luckily for Harry his friends haven’t forgotten him. Magic isn’t allowed, but the Dursleys don’t know that □ When a house elf by the name of Dobby shows up in Harry’s room warning him not to return to Hogwarts, things go haywire. His friends haven’t written him, maybe they’ve forgotten him. Harry has spent a lonely summer with the Dursleys. Rowling is the second book of the series and picks up around the same time the first book does….at Harry’s birthday. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. What better way to spend a road trip than listening to Jim Dale read Harry Potter?! Recently we went on vacation which means a road trip. It’s so good that even my 8 year old son wants to listen to them and asks at random when we can start the next Harry Potter book. Jim Dale is a master narrator! He breathes new life into the series. However y’all I’m so glad I’ve got the audiobooks. I make no secret of my love for Harry Potter. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.īut each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone - or something - starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strikeĪnd strike it does. The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Reading Challenges: 2019 Audiobook Challenge
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