library binding, 368 pages
Published June 26, 2018 by Turtleback Books.
Harry Potter #2
Throughout the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter has been receiving sinister warnings from a house-elf called Dobby.
Now, back at school to start his second year, Harry hears unintelligible whispers echoing through the corridors.
Before long the attacks begin: students are found as if turned to stone.
Dobby’s predictions seem to be coming true.
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Me queda claro que Harry no quiere gastar ni un "peso" del dinero que tiene en Gringotts, así sea que destruyó propiedad ajena, así sea que el equipo donde juega necesite nuevas escobas jaja
Na [b:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|30515786|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)|J.K. Rowling|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1465582516l/30515786.SY75.jpg|4640799] valt het tweede deel wat tegen. Joanne Rowling werkt de magische wereld van Hogwarts verder uit en introduceert een paar nieuwe personages, maar laat steken vallen bij het opzetten van een op zichzelf staand verhaal. Daarentegen kent de herlezer het belang van het dagboek van Tom Riddle in het grotere geheel, waarmee Rowling ook dit deel onmisbaar maakt in de reeks.
Ondertussen pakt Rowling de lezer wel degelijk in met haar vlotte, creatieve doch herkenbare lijn. De enige inconsistentie waaraan ik me ergerde, was de vage scheiding tussen de magische en de niet-magische wereld. Harry en Ron komen in grote problemen wanneer zij te opzichtig in een auto vliegen, terwijl muggles ondertussen af en aan in contact komen met de magische wereld.
Mrs. Weasley geeft ten slotte nog een tip die uit …
Na [b:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|30515786|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)|J.K. Rowling|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1465582516l/30515786.SY75.jpg|4640799] valt het tweede deel wat tegen. Joanne Rowling werkt de magische wereld van Hogwarts verder uit en introduceert een paar nieuwe personages, maar laat steken vallen bij het opzetten van een op zichzelf staand verhaal. Daarentegen kent de herlezer het belang van het dagboek van Tom Riddle in het grotere geheel, waarmee Rowling ook dit deel onmisbaar maakt in de reeks.
Ondertussen pakt Rowling de lezer wel degelijk in met haar vlotte, creatieve doch herkenbare lijn. De enige inconsistentie waaraan ik me ergerde, was de vage scheiding tussen de magische en de niet-magische wereld. Harry en Ron komen in grote problemen wanneer zij te opzichtig in een auto vliegen, terwijl muggles ondertussen af en aan in contact komen met de magische wereld.
Mrs. Weasley geeft ten slotte nog een tip die uit de Netflexdocumentaire The social dilemma had kunnen komen:
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
7/10
I have always wondered why anyone would hire Gilderoy Lockhart, and then I started working in international schools. It makes perfect sense because, when in need, they hire absolutely anyone without an actual care for their abilities or expertise. The number of people I have met who've been hired into schools, even though they have massively problematic histories, is absurd. It's scary.
The only benefit of Lockhart: Snape's appearances in the novel decrease in order to show how incapable Lockhart is. Snape appears almost randomly to make a student miserable, still making me wonder why anyone at Hogwarts would've ever kept him around since he hates approximately 75% of his students so much.
Regarding Lockhart: If he was the only available candidate for the job, I would've found ways to have my teachers working together and restructuring the whole approach to schooling. They're a wizarding school, so why is everything …
I have always wondered why anyone would hire Gilderoy Lockhart, and then I started working in international schools. It makes perfect sense because, when in need, they hire absolutely anyone without an actual care for their abilities or expertise. The number of people I have met who've been hired into schools, even though they have massively problematic histories, is absurd. It's scary.
The only benefit of Lockhart: Snape's appearances in the novel decrease in order to show how incapable Lockhart is. Snape appears almost randomly to make a student miserable, still making me wonder why anyone at Hogwarts would've ever kept him around since he hates approximately 75% of his students so much.
Regarding Lockhart: If he was the only available candidate for the job, I would've found ways to have my teachers working together and restructuring the whole approach to schooling. They're a wizarding school, so why is everything so blatantly the same as the real world? It's so boring, uncreative, and just doesn't do anything at all to make people question things beyond the common issues of schools.
One of the things I would've liked to have seen was more focus on the Malfoys (less so Draco, more so Lucius); Dobby's appearances, as a stand-alone text, feel weird and out of place. He feels superfluous to the story, only acting as random events to Harry. It might set things up later, but it's pretty unimportant and tedious here. Like, if it's setting something up for later, the reader doesn't need to be bludgeoned with it happening; the author can just draw your attention to the background or prompt you to remember something at a later date.
Read it in Spanish this time. Just as good as in English:)
Listened to the audiobook this time. I highly recommend it.
Hagrid is my good friend, and a good man.
Κάπου ο Ντάμπλντορ λέει: "Είναι οι επιλογές μας Χάρι που δείχνουν πολύ πιο ξεκάθαρα από τις ικανότητές μας ποιοι είμαστε πραγματικά".
Je öfter ich "Die Kammer des Schreckens" lese, desto weniger kann ich nachvollziehen, dass es früher der Band war, den ich am wenigsten mochte.
Es ist so genial, wie J.K. Rowling immer wieder verdeckte Hinweise ausstreut, dabei aber so geschickt vorgeht, dass man manchmal sogar mehrere Anläufe braucht, bis man sie durchblickt hat.
Hermine ist in diesem Teil ja nicht so präsent, vielleicht ist es das, was mich früher gestört hat. Dafür hat Ron wieder die allerbesten One Liner überhaupt. Und ich liebe es, wie brüderlich die Weasley Zwillinge mit Harry umgehen.
Einfach eine fantastische Geschichte, die durch die Illustrationen sogar noch zauberhafter wird.
One of my favorite Harry Potter books - I love the introduction of Dobby and the Moaning Myrtle, Lockheart's hilarious egocentrism and the mystery surrounding the Chamber of Secrets.
Pretty decent. Especially now that I've tracked down the UK version.
Upon re-reading the novels, it's hard not to see the author's traditionalist, gender-conformist mindset.
Once, I believed in separating the art from the artist, but this is the first time I've had to try doing so while the artist is still alive and using wealth gained from their art to cause suffering.
Writers have power, the living have power, and the wealthy have power. She is all of those things. I have to do what I can to regain the power I gave her, and this is it.
This book will remain a staple for children who have yet to be jaded by the world.
When an author writes an epic series of books you gotta expect that some stuff maybe recycled and that the beginning of each book will be similar as you get a recap of what happened and the characters are introduced again, for those who forget easily or maybe for those who like to read a series in random order. What I wasn't expecting was Rowling to just rehash the first potter book, I don't understand why nobody has complained more about this. Everything that happened in this book is just slightly tweaked from the last book. Here's a run-down of both books.
1. Harry has horrible foster parents and they lock him away because they don't want him going to wizard school (it looked like they had learnt their lesson in book 1 but conveniently forgot all that for book 2)
2. They go to Diagon ally to buy some …
When an author writes an epic series of books you gotta expect that some stuff maybe recycled and that the beginning of each book will be similar as you get a recap of what happened and the characters are introduced again, for those who forget easily or maybe for those who like to read a series in random order. What I wasn't expecting was Rowling to just rehash the first potter book, I don't understand why nobody has complained more about this. Everything that happened in this book is just slightly tweaked from the last book. Here's a run-down of both books.
1. Harry has horrible foster parents and they lock him away because they don't want him going to wizard school (it looked like they had learnt their lesson in book 1 but conveniently forgot all that for book 2)
2. They go to Diagon ally to buy some stuff.
3. They go to school, lessons are tough, Ron moans about something, One possibly evil teacher is in a bad mood and takes it out on harry.
4. Something bad is happening at the school, in this instance kids are ending up long term in medical, where the hell is OFSTED or social services? Why aren't the parents there worried for their kids? Magic! That's why.
5. Hagrid has a strange pet.
6. The boys go into the woods and meet a strange creature
7. The teachers are completely oblivious to what is going on, all their years of experience and training are out the window at this point. IMHO the only teacher with an excuse is the amazing Gilderoy Lockhart. What a guy!
8. Oh Hermione is a goody goody two shoes who likes to learn.
9. Harry figures it out
10. There is a battle under the school
11. Harry wings it like a pro.
12. Bad guys get what's coming to them.
And repeat for book 3?
Given it 2 stars as the writing has improved from book 1.
Have decided to re-read the entire series. Will not change the original star ratings, but will include my updated star ratings in the wall o' text.
4 stars
The first time I read this, way back in high school, I remember thinking that it just wasn't as good as #1. When I read through the first part of the series again before reading #5, I remember thinking #2 might just be my favorite. This time, I know already it won't be my favorite of the series, but it's a huge improvement over #1, as there's actually a plot.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets sits rather awkwardly in the crossroads between the juvenile read that was The Philosopher's Stone and the steadily more sophisticated series that was to come.
Certainly we get a more directed plot in this book than we did in Philosopher's Stone (which was more of a jaunty tour of Hogwarts than anything else)but there are times when the characters behave in a manner that simply defies adult logic... and it works.
This is certainly not the end of the world. After all the target audience is young and the logic will probably seem sound to them. But re-reading this and knowing what is to come, the notion of Harry and Ron hiding in a cupboard, listening to the teachers and knowing the location of the Chamber of Secrets... but not sharing it... is a little bizarre.
I am still impressed though by the …
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets sits rather awkwardly in the crossroads between the juvenile read that was The Philosopher's Stone and the steadily more sophisticated series that was to come.
Certainly we get a more directed plot in this book than we did in Philosopher's Stone (which was more of a jaunty tour of Hogwarts than anything else)but there are times when the characters behave in a manner that simply defies adult logic... and it works.
This is certainly not the end of the world. After all the target audience is young and the logic will probably seem sound to them. But re-reading this and knowing what is to come, the notion of Harry and Ron hiding in a cupboard, listening to the teachers and knowing the location of the Chamber of Secrets... but not sharing it... is a little bizarre.
I am still impressed though by the number of elements that will be important in the later books are set up this early on. And there's certainly much more of a sense of fear in this book than in the first (where no one really ever felt they were at any risk).
Our trinity of characters are established firm friends now and it's good to see them stretch a little beyond the roles they had in the first book. The secondary cast expands a bit as well, though I did think that Neville got short shrift in this one.
And of course we're still at the point in the series where it remains focused for the entire book rather than meandering in the middle as happened with some of the later installments. Pretty much everything that happens here is relevant to the plot in some fashion.
