Sunday, December 27, 2009

HARRY POTTER and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling: Reviewed by Hunter L.

HARRY POTTER
AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

I just finished Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban and it was great. I bet most of you already read the series, but to those who haven't there I encourage them to read them.

Harry Potter is now going into his third year at Hogwarts Academy for witches and wizards. He has already faced The Dark Lord and explored dangerous and unheard of places, but this year he doesn't know what trouble he'll get into. Towards the end of summer vacation his Aunt Marge comes, and Harry does not like the visit one bit! Aunt Marge always states that Harry's parents died in a car accident because Harry's father was drunk, but she didn't know the dreadful truth. He is so fed up with her he blows her up accidentally, and then runs away. He eventually ends up at the Leaky Cauldron, and meets Ron and Hermione there. At the Leaky Cauldron Harry finds out that the criminal who had escaped from Azkaban, supposedly murdered innocent people, and could have been part of Harry's parents' death is out to kill him. On the way to Hogwarts they pass a Dementor (hooded figures who suck the soul and happiness out of wizards), which makes Harry faint. At school there are all the same teachers, except three: professor Lupin, professor Trelawney, and Hagrid. At one of Hagrid's lessons they get to encounter a hippogriff. Hagrid explained that you must be careful, and gentle with them. Malfoy wasn't, and he ended up in the hospital wing pretending to be hurt. At one of his first quittich games hundreds of Dementors spread on to the field because they can't resist the thousands of fans, but Harry got all dizzy, and fell of his broom loosing it in the Womping Willow. Now Harry doesn't have a broom, and he still gets nervous around dementors. The next day he goes to professor Lupin to take anti-demantor lessons. After several lessons he is able to make a patronus to protect himself against dementors. Harry, Ron, and Hermione get a letter from Hagrid stating that Buckbeak one of the hippogriffs was going to be decapitated because of Malfoy's "injury", and there was nothing they could do. The next day they went down to Hagrid's house to comfort him before the decapitaton. As they leave they see Scabbers (Ron's rat) was scampering across the grass from Hermione's cat! Scabbers and the cat ran to the Womping Willow,and were greeted by a big black dog (the one Harry saw on his street). Ron was pulled under by the dog, and Harry and Hermione followed........








If you really want to know what happened next, you'll have to read the book to find out!

1 comment:

  1. The whole series is awesome, and its one of my favorites.

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