Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. It follows Harry, Ron, and Hermione as they return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their second year of magical education.

Teaser
"All Harry Potter wants is to get away from the Dursleys and go back to 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."

--from Goodreads

Characters

 * Harry Potter
 * Ron Weasley
 * Hermione Granger
 * Ginny Weasley
 * Albus Dumbledore
 * Minerva McGonagall
 * Rubeus Hagrid
 * Gilderoy Lockhart

Series and Sequels
Chamber of Secrets is the second novel in the Harry Potter series; the story begins in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and continues with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Adaptations
Chamber of Secrets was adapted into a Warner Brothers film in 2002, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint.