The Summer holidays with the Dursleys in Privet Drive is not a happy time - until Ron Weasley arrives to rescue Harry by flying car. Life with the non-Muggle Weasleys is wonderful but Harry has been warned by an obsequious house-elf, Dobby, not to return to Hogwarts. Is the elf trustworthy or an enemy and what is the threatening Chamber of Secrets? Will the glittering ink in a hidden diary reveal the consoiracy of silence? Harry, returning to school for his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is determined to find out.