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Summary: To all the over-pretective parents
Review: A girl I know has a mom that works in a school. Her mom was walking down the hall one day and saw a girl outside a classroom crying. She asked her what was wrong and the girl said her mom and dad wouldn't let her read the Harry Potter book with the rest of the class. Pesonally I think this is very pathetic and think that those parents should pe shuned from parenting. I am 12 years old and have read all three of the Potter books. They don't teach me hate or make me have dreams about being killed by Dark Lords. The books taught me to expect the unexpected and not to lose my head in an emergency. I think that if you are worried your kid will have nightmares you should read it with them and explain it's not real. No kid should be deprived a book this great. I liked them so much I read all three in 6 or 7 days. Don't deprive your kid because of what an adult mind thinks it's the kids mind that matters. THE BOOKS ARE GREAT READ THEM!
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Summary: Harry Potter Chamber of Secreats Review
Review: A good book by J.K. Rowling, one of her best. In my opinion it was her best. She did a good job writitng about the characters. And the ending with the snake and the Phoenix was great. As Harry's second adventure at Hogwarts School of Witch craft and Wizardy was a good one. Ron was great in the book as was Hermoine. The book has a lot of twists and turns. Anyway it is a great book and readers everywhere will love it!
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Summary: And awesome book as Harry,Ron,Hermione solve a mystery.
Review: A good book for Adults and kids. As Harry and his sidekicks Ron and Hermione try to solve wierd things going on in Hogwart(a school for wizard and wicthcraft). They risk dentention and even being expelled to find out. This book keeps you on the edge of your seat, not with action but with thought of who is the bad thing. two words good book
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Summary: An exciting and thrilling clif hanger
Review: A great book for people who don't like to figure out who the bad guy is until the end. It is a real cliff hanger that will leave you on the edge of your seat. It's a book that you definatly won't want to put down.
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Summary: Harry Potter
Review: A great book for younger readers and older is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The ending to this book is very good. So far all of the Harry Potter books that I have read have had really good endings. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets is a book about a kid named Harry Potter who is in a school that teaches magic. Later in the book Harry, finds out about the chamber of secrets and whatever is in the chamber is making some kids petrified when it looks them straight in the eyes.
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Summary: chill guys, she's on our side
Review: A great deal of angst has been expressed in the Christian press and amongst conservatives over the notion that the Harry Potter books
sanction magic and are, by the very nature of the story, irreligious. Though many commentators have had great fun with this worry, feeling
that it somehow shows how fundamentally silly Christians are, I'm not inclined to dismiss it so quickly. In a society in which Wicca has
begun to be taken seriously as a belief system, even receiving IRS tax-exempt status, a parent has to be concerned about the possible effects
on their child of such a phenomena as Harry Potter. But a responsible parent who reads with their child and discusses the books and their
themes presumably has no more need to worry about the witchcraft within them than have preceding generations of parents needed to lose
sleep over the sorcery in The Lord of the Rings. In fact, it's hard to escape the nagging feeling that most of us simply accept that Tolkien
won't warp our kids because we know him to have been a devout Christian himself, and influential in converting C. S. Lewis, whose Narnia
books are too explicitly Christian-themed to worry anyone. Presumably, if J. K. Rowling were known to be religious (I've no idea whether
she is or not), and outspoken about her beliefs, many of these concerns about her writings would likewise disappear. But this is neither a
realistic nor a productive standard to hold authors to; instead we should judge them by the moral message of their works. By this standard,
the Harry Potter books should give Christians, and religious parents of all stripes, reason to be grateful, not worried.This is the case because Harry is a quintessential example of Man's struggle to choose between good and evil. In fact, we've reached a point
in our culture where the simple acknowledgments that Evil exists, that the propensity to behave in an evil manner is an essential aspect of
Man's character, that Evil is seductive, and that we are susceptible too it--the bifurcated nature of Man which is the very basis of
Judeo-Christianity and, thus, of our civilization--are in themselves conservative notions. The political and spiritual philosophies of the Left
are premised on a very different conception of Man, that he is fundamentally Good and that selfish, antisocial, and antihuman behaviors are
products of external factors : of faulty social institutions; political oppression; or errant belief systems. The Left believes that if all of these
artificial accretions could be stripped away Man would return to his natural state of goodness. J. K. Rowling obviously disagrees. Famously, or at least it will be famous to anyone who's read the books, when Harry arrived at Hogwarts the Sorting Hat hesitated over what
dorm to place him in. Eventually he was assigned to Gryffindor, but the Hat also noted that he would fit in Slytherin, the dorm associated
with Salazar Slytherin and the study of the Dark Arts. Merely noting that the capacity for evil, as well as good, resides in Harry is unusual
enough, but Rowling also makes it clear that Harry will be defined by the choices he makes between the two. At the end of Chamber of
Secrets, worried about his ability to tap into skills that are usually associated with Slytherin (like communicating with snakes [note the
Biblical echo]), Harry confesses his self-doubt to Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts. Harry wonders if he really should be in
Slytherin : '[The Sorting Hat] only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'Because I asked not to go in Slytherin. . . .' 'Exactly,' said Dumbledore, beaming once more. 'Which makes you very different from [Voldemort]. It is our choices, Harry, that show
what we truly are, far more than our abilities.' Harry sat motionless in his chair, stunned. Well might Harry, or any other modern child, be stunned by this revelation, that it is our moral choices in life that define who we are, that
we bear the responsibility for who we become in life. Adults hear this seldom enough, children almost never. It is this message that makes
the Harry Potter books so valuable to parents and makes their appeal to children such a welcome development. Concerned parents--though
they may obviously prefer that kids not be exposed to such themes in public schools, which antireligion activists have rendered so morally
neutral and hostile to Christianity that they are incompetent to address them--should embrace the books, should read them with their kids,
and, without sucking the fun out of them, should take advantage of the lessons that they teach. Meanwhile, the popularity of the books suggests a genuine thirst among kids for the kind of moral clarity that they provide. The Education
establishment, the Left, and parents who leave such matters to the public schools to fulfill would do well to engage in some soul searching
about the inadequacy of the moral education that the schools are apparently providing. One approach that conservatives and Christians
might take is to, quite disingenuously, suggest that just as these Wiccan novels have valuable non-religious lessons to teach, so might some
of the great children's novels of the Christian tradition, like Swiss Family Robinson, which is usually horribly bowdlerized to strip it of
religious themes. Rather than trying to ban a worthwhile series of books, one which has kids reading enthusiastically, they should be used as
a lever to get more good books into the curricula, to at least make sure that the same schools are reading Tolkien and Lewis and Madeleine
L'Engle. After all, what's good for the Wiccan goose is good for the Christian gander, right? GRADE : A+
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Summary: For all ages...
Review: A real "page turner". Without a doubt this book will entertain anyone interested in reading about wizards & witches -- with intrigue & humor. Not just for kids! HONEST!! Read this in one day. I'll be ordering ALL the books. Thx for a wonderful read.
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Summary: The Secret of Tom Riddle
Review: A review by Andrew
Harry, Hermione and Ron were trying to find out about the chamber of secrets all book and then they find that it has been opened. And the monster was out and petrifying all the muggle-born kids. Harry finds that he can sort of scar the snake away by yelling at it in passel mouth. Then all the kids think that he is the heir to Slytherin. This makes a lot of kids scared and mad. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets is an exciting and fitting sequel to Book I. I think that J.K. did a great job of developing the plot and characters. If in Book 1 I felt Harry's emotions, here in Book 2 I ended up caring for Harry and his friends. I found some of the characters annoying and ridiculous (Lockhart & Dobby), they nevertheless paved the way to bring out Harry's best qualities. While Lockhart prided himself with his fame, charm and good looks, Harry has proven himself humble and not at all hungry for fame and publicity. Dobby, the house-elf who tried to keep Harry away from Hogwarts failed because of Harry's determination to go back, and was even more determined to stay upon learning of the threat against the lives of the Muggle-borns. The events that happened to Harry and his friends has proven once again that Harry is not just a wizard, but also a compassionate and self-sacrificing individual who will go to great lengths in saving another person's life. And although he was suspected to be the Heir of Slytherin because he is a 'passel tongue', it nevertheless showed that his inherent goodness has the power to outweigh whatever qualities Voldemort passed on to him on their first encounter where he ended up with the lightning scar. I recommend this book for all. I thought that this book was great, I enjoyed it greatly. I plan to read the rest, and others should too.
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Summary: Fatal Secrets
Review: A Review by Gina Harry after being held up at the Dursley's eventually gets to stay at Ron's house. When they go to King's Cross Station, something happens when they are getting on the platform. When they get to school, a series of weird events happens. Harry, Ron, and Hermionie think that what's happening at Hogwarts is all Malfoy's fault. But when they find a spell to help them prove it, something went wrong with Hermionie. The new teacher has a big secret, and when Harry and Ron find out, he tries to stop them from telling anyone. Harry finally finds out who is behind everything that is going wrong at school. I liked the creativity the author had when she was writing this book. She made sound like she had a lot of fun when she was writing it and that usually makes the book more fun to read. There is a lot of suspense in this book. It always keeps you on your toes. It was hard for me to put the book down. The plot is well thought out and the whole story, though sometimes misleading, leads you right to the climax. Like any good book, this book has a conflict between two of the main characters. That conflict leads a few of the characters astray.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery and fantasy. Someone who liked the first book in the series, would probably like to read this book.
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Summary: definetly not the best of the first three
Review: a series that i only read because my little brother recommended to me. and since my little brother really hates to read, i figured, okay, why not? why not indeed! the first book was really awesome, but you have to read it to gain full understanding of this one. also, this book lacks the excitement and twists of the other two books of the first three. harry potter is kind of a reflection of what everyone wants to be in life...someone popular, but not for nothing, someone who can maintain friendships, someone who can go to a fabulous school and break the rules without getting in too much trouble... even jesus broke the rules sometimes. so how can parents say that this is a bad read for children because it teaches them to turn to witchcraft? this book, along with the rest of the series, illustrates how so many people are biggots, afraid of what is different and unlike them. that is why, i think, that 'muggles' are portrayed through uncle vernon and his sniveling wife...to show that most people resent differences. i hope that all of you 'paranoid parents' that think this book will turn your child against god will read the book for yourself first. then maybe you can see which will have more influence on your kid-a book or a lifetime of your dedicated teaching.
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