Ebook
English language
Published Oct. 30, 2015 by Pottermore Limited.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the summer after Harry's first year at Hogwarts has been his worst summer ever... the Dursleys more distant and horrible than ever before. But just as he's packing his bags to return to school, a creature named Dobby the house-elf announces that if Harry goes back to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And it turns out, Dobby is right. Harry and Ron miss the Hogwarts Express, so they fly to school in a blue Ford Anglia, crash landing in the notorious Whomping Willow. Soon other worries accumulate: the outrageously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockhart; a ghost named Moaning Myrtle, who haunts the girls' bathroom; the strange behavior of Ron's little sister, Ginny Weasley; rumors about the "Chamber of Secrets," a cavern buried deep below Hogwarts; and a magical diary owned by Tom Riddle, a Hogwarts student of long ago. Harry is also shocked …
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the summer after Harry's first year at Hogwarts has been his worst summer ever... the Dursleys more distant and horrible than ever before. But just as he's packing his bags to return to school, a creature named Dobby the house-elf announces that if Harry goes back to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And it turns out, Dobby is right. Harry and Ron miss the Hogwarts Express, so they fly to school in a blue Ford Anglia, crash landing in the notorious Whomping Willow. Soon other worries accumulate: the outrageously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockhart; a ghost named Moaning Myrtle, who haunts the girls' bathroom; the strange behavior of Ron's little sister, Ginny Weasley; rumors about the "Chamber of Secrets," a cavern buried deep below Hogwarts; and a magical diary owned by Tom Riddle, a Hogwarts student of long ago. Harry is also shocked to discover that he can speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes - a rare ability that Lord Voldemort also possessed - and that anti-Muggle prejudice exists in the Wizarding world, even affecting Harry's friend Hermione. But all of these seem like minor concerns when someone starts turning Hogwarts students to stone: an evildoer said to be the fearsome Heir of Salazar Slytherin, on of the founders of the school. Could it be Draco Malfoy, Harry's most poisonous rival? Could it be Hagrid whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one person everyone at Hogwarts most suspects: Harry Potter himself?
The second novel in the Harry Potter series.
5/5
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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.
Beim zweiten Mal und auf englisch besser als beim ersten Mal. Freue mich auf die folgenden Teile
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Dumbledore is a wise nut.
