Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

by J.K. Rowling

and to read, smirking, the card propped on a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Cursed — Has Claimed the Lives of Nineteen Muggle Owners to Date.

“That Vanishing Cabinet was extremely valuable!” he was saying gleefully to Mrs. Norris. “We’ll have Peeves out this time, my sweet —”

“if the Chamber can only be opened by Slytherin’s true heir, no one else would be able to find it, would they?”