Mientras Harry espera impaciente en casa de sus insoportables tíos el inicio del segundo curso del Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería, un elfo aparece en su habitación y le advierte de que una amenaza mortal se cierne sobre la escuela. Harry no se lo piensa dos veces y, acompañado de Ron, se dirige a Hogwarts en un coche volador. Allí, Harry oye extraños susurros en los pasillos desiertos y, de pronto... los ataques comienzan. La siniestra predicción del elfo parece hacerse realidad.

Jim Kay, ganador del premio Kate Greenaway, representa el mundo de los magos con gran detalle en esta edición ilustrada del segundo título de la saga de J.K. Rowling.

J.K. Rowling ha dicho...
«Las ilustraciones de Jim Kay me emocionaron profundamente. Me encanta su interpretación del mundo de Harry Potter, y para mí es un verdadero honor quehaya aportado su talento a esta nueva edición.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Award-winning artist Jim Kay illustrates year two of Harry Potter's adventures at Hogwarts, in a stunning, gift-ready format.

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter 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 stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when 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, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself?