The Dursleys were so mean that 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 Lockheart, 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?

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Thanks to all of the challenges, I finally read the first two Harry Potter books. Unfortunately I had seen the movies so I knew what was going to happen, but I still enjoyed them. I liked the first one better than the second. Now I'm eager to read the third, as I heard that most people like it better than the first two. And hopefully I can read the fourth and on before I see the movies.

RELEASE NOTES:

On the bench with the Lego lady.

Released for the Keep Them Moving Challenge, the May Race to 50, and the Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenges.