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Harry Potter y la Camara Secreta
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Published October 19, 2010
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J.K. Rowling
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Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
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September 17, 2025
tener relectura con los audios libros es una maravilla, divertido, emocionante y mágico
September 27, 2025
Recordaba este libro un poco más lento y aburrido cuando lo leí en mi juventud pero ahora varios años después ¡Me encantó!
Sinceramente me sentí como cuando una quiere volver a prender la tele para seguir viendo la novela y enterarse del chisme de la vecindad jajaja. Mi personaje favorito sin dudas en éste fue Ron, me la pasé riendo con sus dialogos y me fascinó como va tomando esa personalidad sarcastica y ágil para relacionarse con los demás.
Había noches en qué no podía parar de leerlo y tenía que obligarme a dormir porque la vida adulta no me permitía quedarme leyendo el día entero (claramente).
Hablando ya de cosas que me causan itchy no me queda claro si dumbledore siempre está enterado de que unos niños de 12 años van a enfrentarse a fuerzas que los sobrepasarian facilmente (lo cuál dan a entender) y si es así me causa algo de conflicto pero supongo que es algo arraigado en la cultura del libro.
Lo disfruté mucho y estaré releyendolos para encontrarme de nuevo con ellos y ver como han cambiado o más bien como he cambiado yo.
Btw no comparto los ideales de la autora, para mí estos libros son de un escritor anónimo.
Sinceramente me sentí como cuando una quiere volver a prender la tele para seguir viendo la novela y enterarse del chisme de la vecindad jajaja. Mi personaje favorito sin dudas en éste fue Ron, me la pasé riendo con sus dialogos y me fascinó como va tomando esa personalidad sarcastica y ágil para relacionarse con los demás.
Había noches en qué no podía parar de leerlo y tenía que obligarme a dormir porque la vida adulta no me permitía quedarme leyendo el día entero (claramente).
Hablando ya de cosas que me causan itchy no me queda claro si dumbledore siempre está enterado de que unos niños de 12 años van a enfrentarse a fuerzas que los sobrepasarian facilmente (lo cuál dan a entender) y si es así me causa algo de conflicto pero supongo que es algo arraigado en la cultura del libro.
Lo disfruté mucho y estaré releyendolos para encontrarme de nuevo con ellos y ver como han cambiado o más bien como he cambiado yo.
Btw no comparto los ideales de la autora, para mí estos libros son de un escritor anónimo.
August 10, 2025
4.5 ✨
Me encanta este libro y lo que más disfruté es como ron es sarcástico todo el libro, osea no al punto de molestarte pero dios!!! me hacía reír el sarcasmo que usaba siempre, y también como se preocupaba por Hermione 🤣 cuando en el primer libro no la soportaba jaja ahora se nota que son amigos.
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Me encanta este libro y lo que más disfruté es como ron es sarcástico todo el libro, osea no al punto de molestarte pero dios!!! me hacía reír el sarcasmo que usaba siempre, y también como se preocupaba por Hermione 🤣 cuando en el primer libro no la soportaba jaja ahora se nota que son amigos.
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July 22, 2025
4.5 /// El inicio fue increíble. Algunos capitulos después un poco lentos, tal vez, pero al llegar al climax (los últimos 5 capítulos), es complicado dejarlo. Me encantó ver a Harry impaciente e imprudente ajaja. Personaje favorito por siempre ✨❤️
August 19, 2024
4'25 libro entretenido aunque los capítulos son muy largo para disfrutarlo al cien por cien pero aún asin se puede disfrutar. La trama esta bastante completa aunque en momentos se hace pesada.
February 27, 2025
Muy buen libro. No me agrada que sea tan repetitivo con detalles del primero, y que el momento crucial de la historia dure tan poco, pero tiene un buen desarrollo para ser la segunda parte.
March 14, 2025
89 (24 dólares) soles por este libro, tapa dura, que es un montón, especialmente pq el libro no valió la pena, es aburrido y largo.
April 5, 2025
Continued to read this one in Spanish!
Loved it just as much as the first!!
Loved it just as much as the first!!
May 15, 2025
el momento más importante en el q todo se resuelve y la pelea final duran re poco, todo lo otro d la historia es relleno
May 24, 2025
Muito diferente ler
September 20, 2025
Amo que, después de haber visto las películas mil veces, haya decidido leer los libros y que me gusten mucho más los personajes en papel que en la pantalla grande. ❤️
September 30, 2025
Es una lectura rápida y entretenida, ya que terminé el segundo libro voy a ver la película 😁.
October 22, 2025
BUENISIMOOO, amo Harry Potter, sinceramente no puede disgustarme ninguno de los 7 libros. Me encanta la historia y como se desarrolla y... Amo a Harry, se me hizo muy tierno al igual q a Ron 😭💕
December 23, 2025
CON RAZÓN A LA GENTE LE ENCANTA!! ES MIL VECES MEJOR QUE LAS PELIS
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