chamber of secrets

The Rowling Magazine Issue #69 · September 2022

The Ink Black Prince

Connections between The Ink Black Heart and Harry Potter From the beginning J.K. Rowling has encouraged readers to find parallels between Strike and Harry Potter. There was the initial announcement of a new seven book series (since quashed – I’m delighted to find that she’s now planned out ten1 and hopefully we’ll get even more). […]

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The Rowling Magazine Issue #54 · June 2021

Harry Potter Goes Down

Harry must descend into the Underworld, the realm of the dead, traditionally situated below the world of the living.

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The Rowling Magazine Issue #53 · May 2021

The evolution of The Daily Prophet

The Daily Prophet newspaper has been used as a key element throughout the Harry Potter series both to provide a broader view of the goings-on in the Wizarding community and at times to deliver important clues and information to move the main plot of the story forward. Besides the fact that the newspapers contain moving […]

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The Rowling Magazine Issue #34 · October 2019

Harry’s Halloweens: A History

Throughout the seven books of the Harry Potter series, a handful of similarities are seen between the Muggle and Magical worlds. One of these is Halloween. Rowling’s Wizarding World is sprinkled with many things that come to mind when Muggles think of Halloween, from witches and wizards on broomsticks to the ghosts that roam the […]

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The Rowling Magazine Issue #31 · July 2019

20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

July 8th marked two decades since the release of the Prisoner of Azkaban. It was a normal day, July 8th 1999, when Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban reached the bookshops in the United Kingdom for all the kids who were waiting for the third part in the Harry Potter saga. In the United […]

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March 31st, 2016

Artwork from the upcoming illustrated edition of The Chamber of Secrets

As we told you previously, the illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is going to be published in the United Kingdom and the United States of America on October 4th. The book will have 272 pages, and will be illustrated by Jim Kay again. 

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March 30th, 2016

Illustrated Chamber of Secrets: Cover artwork and phoenix

BuzzFeed (in partnership with Scholastic and Bloomsbury, the publishers behind this project) has published the cover of the upcoming illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, alongside with an inside illustration of a phoenix.

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January 22nd, 2016

Win the slipcase gift edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Next week (January 28th), Bloomsbury will publish the slipcase (gift) edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – you can already pre-order it here. However, this is your chance to win a copy of this beautiful edition for free, because the amazing people from Wordery are giving us a copy of the book to give […]

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May 27th, 2014

New cover for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets revealed

Bloomsbury has revealed the new cover of the second book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Enjoy it here. The artwork has been made by Jonny Duddle and will be part of the new editions that Bloomsbury plans to publish in September of this year.

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