Book Review

Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets             

Author: J.K.Rowling

Genre: Fiction.  Magic/Fantasy/Mystery

Harry Potter is a twelve year old wizard starting his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends Hermione and Ron. Mysterious things are happening to the students at Hogwarts, there is a ghost in the toilet, strange noises and spiders.  Everyone is starting to suspect Harry, who has started to hear voices and can speak like a snake.  When Hermione, gets frozen, Harry and Ron take control and try to solve the mystery.

The story was good because it had lots of imagination and great words.  It is really interesting, because it never gets boring and you can read it again and find out new things each time.  It is a mixture of funny, exciting, scary and sad.  The book has really good characters, my favourites are Hermione and Ginny, Harry, Ron and the twins.  It is a hard book to put down.  It is good that it is in a series and movies, because this helps it makes sense and you can understand it better and you never want it to end.

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It has some hard words that are tricky to sound out and some people might not understand some of the words or some of the things that go on in the book without a parent.

The book has got themes of new friendship, accepting different people, fixing problems with friendships, dark themes of power, evil and mean people. The book is trying to send a message that if you are different, it doesn’t mean that you are wrong.  You don't need to be smart to be brave, and even if you have a rough time with your friend, you don’t give up on them.  Good wins over evil and they need to keep finding solutions to defeat evil, because it keeps coming back.  Because of the dark themes, they use humour to brighten the book up.  

I recommend the book and the series and the movies for ages 10 and up.  It is good if your parents read it first to explain things and watch the movies, because it helps understand things too.  It is like real life, except it is in another perspective.  It is a cool book and it makes me feel happy.  It makes me want to be magic and go to Hogwarts!