Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling

Dec 2015 · Harry Potter Book 2 · Sold by Pottermore Publishing

About this ebook

'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'

Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.


Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.

Ratings and reviews

JKRowling's writing is as magical as the unique, colorful, characters found in the charming world of Harry Potter. It's unbelievable, but true that each new book is as good as - if not better, than the last. Kids who don't like reading and adults alike will be drawn into the fun fantasy and you may actually find yourself fighting to put it down. Chamber of Secrets, is year two at Hogwarts school of magic. Mystical creatures & mystery will test the bonds of friendship and Harry's own courage. A charming book for the entire family, both young and old. A keeper series, worth rereading.

I love the Harry Potter series. It has so much detail and excitment. I already read the whole series last year and it was AMAZING. Right now I am reading the Hunger Games but I want to read Harry Potter again when I am done. I want to see Universal Studios since Harry Potter world is there. I want to experience Diagon and Knockturn Alley just like Harry did. Hopefully I can go soon. Anyway, bye. WAIT! I also recomend the Hunger Games.🎯Katniss Everdeen is awesome.

I first refused to get into the Harry Potter books when they first came out since I am not a huge fan of fantasy, but I worked at a movie theater when some of the movies came out and my mom wanted me to take her, I obliged and watched it with her and fell in love with it, I then read all of the available books and I was hooked. I am a "Potterhead" through and through. She is so descriptive and detailed in all of her writings that the books play out like a movie in my mind while I am reading them. I would HIGHLY recommend this series to anyone and everyone, no matter your age!

About the author

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels and a crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and wrote the series of seven books and the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in the UK in 1997. Smash hit movie adaptations followed, with the last of the eight films, Deathly Hallows Part 2, released in 2011. The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 80 languages. They continue to be discovered and loved by new generations of readers.

To accompany the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard in aid of her non-profit children's organisation Lumos.

One of these companion volumes inspired the Fantastic Beasts film series, begun in 2016, with screenplays written or co-written by Rowling.

Also in 2016, she collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry's story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

J.K. Rowling's stand-alone novels include The Casual Vacancy, which was published in 2012. Writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, she is the author of the highly acclaimed 'Strike' series, featuring private detectives Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.

In 2020 she returned to publishing for younger children with her fairy tale The Ickabog, which was initially serialised for free online for children during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Christmas Pig, an adventure story about a boy's love for his most treasured toy and how far he will go to find it, was published in 2021 and was a bestseller in the UK, USA and Europe.

As well as receiving an OBE and Companion of Honour for services to children's literature, J. K. Rowling has received many other awards and honours, including France's Legion d'Honneur, Spain's Prince of Asturias Award and Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2020, Jo received a British Book Award, recognising Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as the most important book of the last thirty years.

She supports humanitarian causes through her charitable trust, Volant, and is also the founder and president of Lumos, an international children's charity fighting for every child's right to a family by transforming care systems around the world.