Gold winner of the 1997 Nestle Smarties Book Prize (7-11yrs). Winner of the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year 1997, Winner of the Children's Book Award 1998 (age range section and overall), Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1997, Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award 1997, Shortlisted for the Young Telegraph Book Award, Shortlisted for the Carnegie Childrens Fiction Award 1997, and Shortlisted for the Birmingham Cable Book Award. This is a remarkable sequel to the best-selling "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last even getting there is an adventure in itself! The three firm friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch. But then horrible and mysterious things begin to happen. Harry keeps hearing strange voices, sinister and dark messages appear on the wall, and then Ron's sister Ginny disappears.