"The first of those marks is that life involves pain or frustration. Harry experiences frustration throughout the novel, beginning with his misery during his summer vacation at the house of his Muggle relatives, where he was mistreated and isolated in every way — not even receiving letters from his school friends, because the house-elf Dobby was intercepting his mail (for what he thought was Harry’s own good). From that point onward, the novel is a catalog of Harry’s other frustrations and pains."
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Harry Potter’s Quest In The Chamber Of Secrets, by John Algeo, Theosophy in Australia, (March 2005)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second book in the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling. It was first published in 1998. All page numbers refer to the hardcover, American edition published by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.
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