Better than the first book. Like it enough to read the third book in the series right after I finished with this one. 
 Still, I think Mr. Lippert would like it more if he wrote about older characters, with advance magical ability and all. I just cannot buy it when he write 1st year Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy already *somehow* mastered advance magic like Unforgivable Curses, and able to perform it in front of other student and seen as *cool* instead of *creepy Dark Lord apprentice*.