Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second installment of the ever-so popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. This series is full of moments where terror strikes the mind, adventure whisks the heart away, and mystery pokes and prods around every corner. I absolutely love these books and others with these same themes. Though I have read this series numerous times in the past, I received the set of e-books for Christmas and became immersed in them once again. The most interesting thing books do is transporting you from sitting in your room or at a table in the library into a whole other universe. With a little imagination you feel as if you are part of this other universe and the characters are really your friends. You make such an intense connection with the characters you read about to the point where you miss them once the book is done because you feel as though you’ve grown up with them along the way. This is exactly what J.K. does with all of her novels. The Chamber of Secrets takes place in Harry Potter’s second year at the mystical school of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school where young wizards and witches, such as Mr. Potter, go to learn the dos and do-not’s of magic. I find that every time I read this series and other books like it that my reason for reading it is always different. The first time I read them it was just because I had seen the movies and I loved them immensely but everyone knows that the book is always better than the movie. The second time I read through them it was just for fun and I had nothing else to do. Now on my third run with Harry, I have realized that I really just missed an old friend that I had seen grow up and I wanted to be proud of him again—to see him stand up in the face of adversity without backing
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