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Reader reviewed by Nicole

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is Harry's second year at Hogwarts. Harry is back at his aunt's and uncle's for the summer. And if you can believe it, treat him worse than usual. Harry has been back at his aunt's and uncle's for a month and has yet to recieve a single letter from either of his friends, even though Ron had promised to invite him to stay.

Harry's uncle is having a rich man and his wife who he hopes will order a large order of drills from the company he is the president of. Harry is to stay up in his room and not do anything that will give the man and his wife any sort of inkling that he is in the house. But when Harry goes up stairs when their guests arrive, he finds an odd creature sitting on his bed. The creature introduces himself as Dobby the House Elf. Dobby tells Harry that he is there to warn him of danger at Hogwarts this year. But every time he attempts to give Harry more information, he begins to hit his head on the wall or on a lamp. He explains that his masters do not know he's there and that he must punish himself. Dobby tries to convince Harry not to return to Hogwarts because of the danger. One of his ways of trying to get him to stay home is to give him his mail if he agrees. Harry gets very upset to learn that Dobby has been stealing his mail and Dobby darts out of the room, down the stairs and into the kitchen in fright, where he smashes Harry's aunts pudding and dissappears. Which of course gets Harry in big trouble because right afterwards an owl arrives telling Harry that he has broken a wizard law (performing underage magic) and that if he breaks that law again, he will be expelled from Hogwarts. After a pudding being smashed by a "disturbed" nephew and an owl flying through they're house, his uncles guests decide NOT to order any drills and hurry out of the house.

Harry's uncle locked him in his room for this. Only allowing him out to go to the bathroom. On his third night, Harry is surprised to see his best friend Ron floating in front of his bedroom window in an old car. Ron tells him that he and his twin brothers, Fred and George, were worried because he hadn't answered his letters and came to take him to their house.

Harry spends the rest of his summer with the Weasley's and returns to HOgwarts on September first. All is well until around Halloween when the caretakers cat was attacked and petrified by an unknown criminal. Along with that, Harry is hearing a voice that no body else seems to hear, a rogue bludger hits his arm and breaks it during a Quidditch match and every one seems to think that Harry is the one attacking the muggle borns. That is, until Harry's best friend, Hermione, who is muggle born is attacked. Without Hermione's smarts, Harry and Ron are forced to figure out how to help Ron's little sister, Ginny, who has been kidnapped by the attacker and Harry meets the Dark Lord again.