书名：Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets哈利波特与密室
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数940L
作者：J.K. Rowling 
出版社名称：Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
出版时间：2014
语种：英文
ISBN：9781408855669
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3.5 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：384
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets《哈利·波特与密室》是英国女作家J.K.罗琳创作的魔幻小说《哈利波特》系列小说的第二部。这本书继续讲述了哈利波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校的学习生活。
推荐理由：
1.英文原版，原汁原味的英式英语让你尽享神奇的“魔法”盛宴；
2.电影《哈利波特2：消失的密室》原著小说，内容无删减；
3.英国版，印刷清晰，字体较大，纸质护眼。

Harry Potter’s summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors—and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone . Dobby’s sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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Review
“I’ve yet to meet a ten-year-old who hasn’t been entranced by its witty, complex plot and the character of the eponymous Harry” — Independent

“Spellbinding, enchanting, bewitching stuff” — Mirror

“Teachers say a chapter can silence the most rowdy of classes” — Guardian

“One of the greatest literary adventures of modern times” — Sunday Telegraph

“The Harry Potter stories will join that small group of children’s books which are read and reread into adulthood” — TLS

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets《哈利·波特与密室》
哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校学习一年之后，暑假开始了。他在姨父姨妈家熬过痛苦的假期。正当他准备打点行装去学校时，小精灵多比前来发出警告：如果哈利返回霍格沃茨，灾难将会临头。
但哈利义无返顾地回到了霍格沃茨，新来的吉罗德·洛哈特教授装腔作势，让他作呕；游荡在女生舆洗室里的幽灵“哭泣的桃金娘”搅得他不得安宁；低年级的小女生金妮对他投来关切目光常令他尴尬不已；小男生科林·克里维“追星”式的跟踪又经常使他落荒而逃。
但是，这一切仅仅是灾难的序曲。正如多比所预言的，哈利遭受了重重磨难，经历了种种危险，难解之谜又使他煞费苦心：霍格沃茨的学生接二连三地变成了石头。这一切是品德败坏的学生德拉科·马尔福精心策划的杰作？还是忠厚善良的海格无心铸成的大错？或者另有人将在霍格沃茨制造更大的阴谋？这一切又是否与传说中的密室有关？哈利决心揭开谜底……
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls’ bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley’s younger sister, Ginny.
But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone—or something—starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself!

J.K.罗琳，毕业于英国埃克塞特大学，英国女作家。1989年，她在前往伦敦的火车旅途中萌生了创作“哈利波特”系列小说的念头。七年后，《哈利波特与魔法石》问世，之后她陆续创作了《哈利波特与密室》《哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》等系列。哈利波特系列小说被译成79种语言，全球销量达4.5亿册。2012年，J.K.罗琳出版小说《偶发空缺》。之后以男性笔名Robert Galbraith陆续出版了Cormoran Strike系列侦探小说，包括《布谷鸟在呼唤》《罪恶生涯》。
J.K. Rowling is the author of the seven Harry Potter novels, which have sold over 450 million copies and have been translated into 79 languages, and three companion books originally published for charity. She is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults published in 2012, and, under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, is the author of the Cormoran Strike crime series.

THE WORST BIRTHDAY 
Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive. Mr. Vernon Dursley had been woken in the early hours of the morning by a loud, hooting noise from his nephew Harry’s room. 
“Third time this week!” he roared across the table. “If you can’t control that owl, it’ll have to go!” Harry tried, yet again, to explain. 
“She’s bored,” he said. “She’s used to flying around outside. If I could just let her out at night—” 
“Do I look stupid?” snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache. “I know what’ll happen if that owl’s let out.” 
He exchanged dark looks with his wife, Petunia. 
Harry tried to argue back but his words were drowned by a long, loud belch from the Dursleys’ son, Dudley. 
“I want more bacon.” 
“There’s more in the frying pan, sweetums,” said Aunt Petunia, turning misty eyes on her massive son. “We must build you up while we’ve got the chance... I don’t like the sound of that school food...” 
“Nonsense, Petunia, I never went hungry when I was at Smeltings,” said Uncle Vernon heartily. “Dudleygets enough, don’t you, son?” 
Dudley, who was so large his bottom drooped over either side of the kitchen chair, grinned and turned to Harry. 
“Pass the frying pan.” 
“You’ve forgotten the magic word,” said Harry irritably. 
The effect of this simple sentence on the rest of the family was incredible: Dudley gasped and fell off his chair with a crash that shook the whole kitchen; Mrs. Dursley gave a small scream and clapped her hands to her mouth; Mr. Dursley jumped to his feet, veins throbbing in his temples. 
“I meant ‘please’!” said Harry quickly. “I didn’t mean—” 
“WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU,” thundered his uncle, spraying spit over the table, “ABOUT SAYING THE ‘M’ WORD IN OUR HOUSE?” 
“But I—” 
“HOW DARE YOU THREATEN DUDLEY!” roared Uncle Vernon, pounding the table with his fist. “I just—” 
“I WARNED YOU! I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!” 
Harry stared from his purple-faced uncle to his pale aunt, who was trying to heave Dudley to his feet. 
“All right,” said Harry, “all right... “ 
Uncle Vernon sat back down, breathing like a winded rhinoceros and watching Harry closely out of the corners of his small, sharp eyes. 
Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. As a matter of fact, he was as not normal as it is possible to be. 
Harry Potter was a wizard—a wizard fresh from his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And if the Dursleys were unhappy to have him back for the holidays, it was nothing to how Harry felt.