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None Provided16 Harry's on summer break after completing his first year at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, and his aunt, uncle, and cousin are as mean as ever, trying at every turn to keep him from fulfilling his destiny as a wizard. Their efforts to prevent his return to Hogwarts are aided by an unknown force: a mysterious elf who shows up and warns Harry that he must never return to the school. Before departing, the elf performs a bit of mischievous magic that is blamed on Harry. As a result, Harry not only gets a stern warning from Hogwarts for using magic in the "real" world; he is also locked away by his aunt and uncle in a tiny closet beneath the stairs. Harry is eventually rescued by his classmates and friends, the redheaded Weasleys, but getting back to Hogwarts still proves to be a challenge. When he finally does get there, his troubles quickly multiply. Someone has opened the door to the Chamber of Secrets, releasing a deadly monster with the power to kill. Several classmates turn up petrified, and in addition to trying to puzzle out who the culprit is, Harry finds himself a prime suspect. The truth lies down the end of a trail marked by a magical diary with invisible ink, a ghost who hides inside a toilet, a flying car, a pompous new teacher with a talent for hyperbole, and some ghastly giant spiders. When one of Harry's friends is imprisoned and another is turned to stone, Harry is forced to once again confront his archenemy, the Dark Wizard Voldemort, who has a whole new bag of nasty tricks up his sleeve. The Dusleys were so mean and hidious that summer, that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry recieves a message from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry 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 ____-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's sister, Ginny. But each of these seem minor annoyances wher 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, who's mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself! Medusa was a terrible monster that had laid waste to the country. She was once beautiful women whose hair was her chief glory, but as she dared to become more beautiful than Athena the goddess deprived her of her charms and changed her beautiful features into a ugly creator. She became a cruel monster of so frightening an aspect that no living thing could behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she stayed, where stony figures of men and animals which had chanced to catch a glimpse of her and had been turned to stone with one sight. Perseus, favored by Athena and Hermes the former of who lent him her shield and the latter his winged shoes, approached Medusa while she slept, and taking care not to look directly at her, but guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he cut off her head and gave it to Athena, who fixed it in the middle of her Aegis. Bibliography:

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