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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rowling, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / by J. K. Rowling.

p.    cm.

Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School

of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger

from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

ISBN 0-439-06486-4

[1. Wizards — Fiction.    2. Magic — Fiction.    3. Schools — Fiction.

4. England — Fiction.]    I. Title.

PZ7.R7968Har    1999

[Fic] — dc21    98-46370

60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53                     02 03 04 05 06

Printed in the U.S.A.    23

First American edition, June 1999