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Harry Potter · Book 2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

Published
2 July 1998
Pages
339
ISBN-13
9781408812785
Type
novel

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About this book

Following Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998, 339 pages) covers Harry's second year at Hogwarts, continuing J. K. Rowling's boarding-school-mystery formula as the series steadily grows up alongside its readers.

Its place in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is book 2 in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It is followed by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. See the full Harry Potter reading order.

Harry Potter follows an orphaned boy who discovers, on his eleventh birthday, that he is a wizard — and that the hidden magical world has been waiting for him. Whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry finds friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a talent for the broomstick sport of Quidditch, and a destiny tangled with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. Across seven novels, J. K. Rowling grows the story up alongside its readers. The…

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