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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the worldwide known series Harry Potter, written by J.K. Rowling.
Harry has spent an awful summer at the Dursley’s but it gets worse with aunt Marge arrival. Aunt Marge is Uncle Vernon's sister, and she finds quite entertaining to criticize Harry’s parents. At dinner Harry cannot stand it anymore and without realizing use magic on her. Aunt Marge starts getting inflate as an enormous balloon. Harry takes advantage of the distraction and runs away.
Later, he finds himself wandering alone. He starts getting scared of every movement in the darkness; he even falls to the floor when a really big dog seems to approach him. At that moment a three-floor purple bus appears. The bus transports wizards to the places they need to go. Harry asks the bus to get him to Diagon Alley.
When he gets off the bus, Mr Fudge, the magic prime minister, is waiting for him. He tells Harry to stay at the Leaky cauldron until the new course starts. The reason is that a very dangerous dark wizard has escaped Azkaban, the wizard prison.
The rest of the summer goes by, as he has fun on Diagon Alley. Then the year at Hogwarts stars and Harry will have a lot of free time while his friends visit Hogsmade. In addition to that, Dementors, the guards of Azkaban, will be protecting Hogwarts from the still free Sirius Black.
The third book in the series wasn’t disappointed at all. As well as the previous books in the series this one has action, adventure, mystery and, of course, magic. But what really made me like this book is how I was able to see the fact that these books are just little tales inside a wholly complete and complex story. The fact that everything happens for a reason, that will be probably be revealed in a future book, is amazing.
Nonetheless, I found some weak points that made me give it 4 stars instead of 5. Let’s start with the characters. These seem a bit static, what I mean by that it is that they don’t seem to develop through the books. There are some exceptions; Hermione develops, although not much. Also, Snape, who seems like an interesting character, as he was hiding something.
Apart from that, I kind of felt Ron was being left behind. The same happened with Hermione in the previous book, and I didn’t like it either. I am hoping it is not going to become a tradition.
In addition to that, the ending was too perfect for feel it was realistic.
Overall, despite the negative aspects I really, really liked it and I will be reading the next previous books in the series. And of course I recommend it to everyone
Harry has spent an awful summer at the Dursley’s but it gets worse with aunt Marge arrival. Aunt Marge is Uncle Vernon's sister, and she finds quite entertaining to criticize Harry’s parents. At dinner Harry cannot stand it anymore and without realizing use magic on her. Aunt Marge starts getting inflate as an enormous balloon. Harry takes advantage of the distraction and runs away.
Later, he finds himself wandering alone. He starts getting scared of every movement in the darkness; he even falls to the floor when a really big dog seems to approach him. At that moment a three-floor purple bus appears. The bus transports wizards to the places they need to go. Harry asks the bus to get him to Diagon Alley.
When he gets off the bus, Mr Fudge, the magic prime minister, is waiting for him. He tells Harry to stay at the Leaky cauldron until the new course starts. The reason is that a very dangerous dark wizard has escaped Azkaban, the wizard prison.
The rest of the summer goes by, as he has fun on Diagon Alley. Then the year at Hogwarts stars and Harry will have a lot of free time while his friends visit Hogsmade. In addition to that, Dementors, the guards of Azkaban, will be protecting Hogwarts from the still free Sirius Black.
The third book in the series wasn’t disappointed at all. As well as the previous books in the series this one has action, adventure, mystery and, of course, magic. But what really made me like this book is how I was able to see the fact that these books are just little tales inside a wholly complete and complex story. The fact that everything happens for a reason, that will be probably be revealed in a future book, is amazing.
Nonetheless, I found some weak points that made me give it 4 stars instead of 5. Let’s start with the characters. These seem a bit static, what I mean by that it is that they don’t seem to develop through the books. There are some exceptions; Hermione develops, although not much. Also, Snape, who seems like an interesting character, as he was hiding something.
Apart from that, I kind of felt Ron was being left behind. The same happened with Hermione in the previous book, and I didn’t like it either. I am hoping it is not going to become a tradition.
In addition to that, the ending was too perfect for feel it was realistic.
Overall, despite the negative aspects I really, really liked it and I will be reading the next previous books in the series. And of course I recommend it to everyone