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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the continuance of the first story of Harry Potter written by J. K. Rowling. The plot tells Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the adventure of Harry and his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to face the terrors and fight with their biggest enemy, Lord Voldemort.

The book was published in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1998 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 2 June 1999 by Scholastic Inc. Although Rowling found it difficult to finish the book, it won high praise and awards from critics, young readers and the book industry, although some critics thought the story was perhaps too frightening for younger children.

The theme of the book is magical so it is a book filled with the writer's imagination, so much so that it cannot help but in turn spur the imagination of the young who read it.

The personal identity of this book is a strong theme in the book, and that it addresses issues of racism through the treatment of non-magical, non-human and non-living characters. The diary as a warning against uncritical acceptance of information from sources whose motives and reliability cannot be checked. Institutional authority is portrayed as self-serving and incompetent.

It is all of the details that truly make Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a wonderful book, a book that is a pleasure for adults to read but which will for a child prove to be a true and memorable joy.

Annisa Aulia Saharani

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