For all you non Harry Potterers out there, the second book in the magical series is called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Lots of mysterious and sketchy things are happening at Hogwarts, and of course Harry finds himself in the middle of all of it, after-all, we wouldn't have ourselves a story if he didn't. Lord Voldemort is up to his usual tricks and he's being evil, causing havoc, and endangering lives. Muggle borns seem to be the target this year, a lot of them have been petrified and no one can seem to figure out how it's happening. Rumors of the Chamber of Secrets are running amok around the castle. The Chamber of Secrets is supposedly a secret place in the castle that founder of Slytherin created to house a terrible creature that would get rid of all the "Mudblood" students, in other words, students from Muggle decent.

 Harry has a special talent that lets him speak to snakes, which is a gift the normally only belongs to bad guys, so everyone starts to think Harry is evil and he wants to rid the school of muggle borns. However, when Hermione gets petrified, everyone changes their tune. Towards the end of the book, Ginny Weasley gets taken into the Chamber of Secrets (which turned out to be real, so whoops on the part of all the doubters). Things start to get real personal for Harry and Ron, first their best friend and now Ron's little sister? They are not having it. They make their defense against the dark arts teacher go with them to where they figure out the chamber is. After a bunch of hustle and bustle, they find themselves in an underground passage. After an avalanche they become separated and Harry is left to explore the creepy place alone. What he finds is kind of terrifying. Ginny, almost dead, a giant deadly snake, and Voldemort... as a teenager. Ginny who poured her soul into the diary of Tom Riddle, Voldemort, which made him super powerful, due to some dark magic. To make things short, Harry has an epic fight with the snake, he almost dies, Dumbledore's phoenix saves him, then Harry stabs the diary, which wipes out young Voldemort and brings Ginny back to her healthy self.