Writer: J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets is the sequel of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone. The plot followed Harry’s second year at Hogwarts. The disaster started
since the school caretaker’s cat was petrified and the words on the wall saying
“THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE” and
followed by a series of the trio’s searching on the chamber; it’s also has the
elements of detective except from the elements of fantasy.
Like Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone, it’s a richly textured novel. Things that look
normal happening in the front were strongly related to what happened at the end,
for example, the spell Expelliarmus Harry learnt in the dueling became a very
important spell that saved his life.
Harry’s coming across Hagrid in Knockturn Alley (a place where there’re
lots of evil wizards) became one of the reason they suspected him of being the
one opening the Chamber of Secret. There’re also lots of twist and turn in their
process of searching on the Chamber of Secret.
The other reason I
like the novel is that author J.K Rowling added lots of interesting things to
the book, like house elf, Ron’s house (house of a wizard), whomping willow,
floo powder (one of the ways they travel), flying car, deathday party,
polyjuice potion, special diary, aragog, and the Chamber of course, and interesting
characters, like Gilderoy Lockhart, a
self-centered wizard, who was proved to be useless at once. The dialogues were
well created; they clearly shown the reader the characteristics of the
characters, whether being brave, or self-conceited, and so on.
In this book,
sometimes author J.K. Rowling explained things that had already been explained
in the first book, like how Quidditch worked, but it’s okay. They’re precise, and
she did use different ways to say the same thing, like she explained the rule
of Quidditch by using the conversation between Harry’s fan, Colin Creevy who
was a new student and him.
Except
from those merits, there’s one thing I didn’t like about book, which is that
the author used many pages in the end of the books, explaining things, like in the
first book, which I found it quite boring and a bit irritating, but maybe this’s
the way it should be in a detective fiction.
Some interesting
fact about the books
The author used third person narrator, who was
following Harry and applied matter-of-fact tone.
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