Harry Potter #3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school...

435 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 8,1999

This edition

Format
435 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published
May 1, 2004 by Scholastic Inc.
ISBN
9780439655484
ASIN
043965548X
Language
English
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  • Sirius Black

    Sirius Black

    Sirius is one of James Potters best friends from Hogwarts and godfather to James and Lilys son, Harry. On the night Lily and James were killed, Sirius was accused of giving Voldemort the secret of where they were hiding, although he was innoce...

  • Ron Weasley

    Ron Weasley

    Ronald Weasley, is the second youngest child and youngest boy in the Weasley family. He has 5 older brothers (Bill, Charlie, Percy, George & Fred) and a younger sister (Ginny). He is best friends with Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. He is in Gryffindor...

  • Petunia Dursley

    Petunia Dursley

    Petunia Dursley is the sister of Lily Potter, and is a muggle, A.K.A. a non-magical person. She has always hated her sister for being "different" because her parents LOVED Lily. She treats Harry nicer than Vernon, but still hates his guts.more...

  • Vernon Dursley

    Vernon Dursley

    Vernon Dursley is married to Petunia, and they have a child named Dudley. They "took Harry in" when he arrived on their doorstep the night Harrys parents died. Vernon always treats Harry like dirt since he is a wizard. Until Harry was 11, he never l...

  • Dudley Dursley

    Dudley Dursley

    Dudley is Harrys annoying cousin who is about the same age of Harry. Dudley is also a Muggle. He likes eating, watching TV, killing aliens on his PlayStation and hitting Harry.more...

  • Severus Snape

    Severus Snape

    Severus Snape was the potions teacher at Hogwarts until the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He originally wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, but didnt get the job. James Potter, his arch-enemy, frequently teased a...

About the author

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See also: Robert Galbraith
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.

Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.

Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn't particularly happy. I think it's a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3), J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the third in the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.

The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: در ماه نوامبر سال 2001 میلادی

عنوان: هری پاتر و زندانی آزکابان - کتاب سوم؛ نویسنده: جی.کی رولینگ؛ مترجم ویدا اسلامیه؛ تهران، کتابسرای تندیس؛ 1379؛ در 496ص؛ چاپ بیست و جهارم 1392؛ شابک 9789645757012؛ موضوع: داستانهای خیال انگیز نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20م

فصلهای کتاب: جغد نامه‌رسان؛ اشتباه بزرگ عمه مارج؛ اتوبوس شوالیه؛ پاتیل درزدار؛ دیوانه ساز؛ چنگال تیز و تفاله‌های چای؛ لولوخورخوره درون گنجه؛ فرار بانوی چاق؛ شکست شوم؛ جغد نامه‌رسان؛ آذرخش؛ سپر مدافع؛ لولوخورخوره درون گنجه؛ مسابقه‌ی نهایی کوییدیچ؛ پیشگویی پروفسور تریلانی؛ گربه، موش و سگ؛ مهتابی، دم‌باریک، پانمدی و شاخ‌دار؛ خادم لرد ولدمورت؛ بوسه‌ی دیوانه ساز؛ راز هرمیون؛ یک جغد نامه‌رسان دیگر؛

آن روزها که این کتاب منتشر شد، تنها در آمریکا، بیش از پنج میلیون جلد گالینگور، و میلیونها نسخه با جلد شمیز، به فروش رفت؛ والدین آمریکایی، با حیرت، به خبرنگارها میگفتند: فرزندان آنها، بازیهای کامپیوتری را کنار گذاشته، و کتابخوان شده اند؛ یادم میآید یک هفته نامه نوشته بود، «هری» پسرک دوازده ساله، ظرف کمتر از دو سه سال، رویاهای بسیاری از کودکان دنیا را تسخیر کرده است

هری پاتر و زندانی آزکابان، کتاب سوم از مجموعه رمان‌های «هری پاتر»، اثر بانو «جی.کی رولینگ» است؛ پس از اینکه «عمه مارج» وارد خانهٔ خاله ی «هری پاتر» می‌شود، او با «هری» درگیری پیدا می‌کند، و «هری» ناخواسته باعث رخداد ناخوش‌آیندی می‌شود «عمه مارج» باد شده و همانند بادکنکی به هوا می‌رود؛

اخطار و هشدار برای آنها که میخواهند کتاب یا فیلم را داغ داغ بخوانند و تماشا کنند، بهتر است ادامه ریویو را نخوانید

هری از خانه فرار می‌کند، و منتظر اظهارنامه ی وزارت جادو می‌شود، زیرا انجام جادو، برای افراد زیر هفده سال ممنوع است، و «هری» تنها سیزده سال سن دارد؛ اما او سرانجام می‌فهمد، که «سیریوس بلک»، کسی بوده، که پدر و مادرش را به «ولدمورت» فروخته؛ و اکنون از زندان فرار کرده، و حالا دنبال اوست، و به همین دلیل، وزارت برای او حکم اخراج نمی‌فرستد، تا بتواند در مدرسه «هاگوارتز» در امان باشد؛ «هری» همواره باید مواظب باشد، تا مورد حمله ی «سیریوس بلک» قرار نگیرد؛ اما در پایان مشخص می‌شود که «سیریوس بلک» پدر خوانده ی اوست، و دوست صمیمی پدرش بوده، و کسی که پدرش را به «ولدمورت» لو داده «پیتر پتی‌گرو» بوده؛ که خود را به شکل موشی درآورده بوده؛ که همان موش از قضا موش خانگی «رون ویزلی»، بهترین دوست «هری» بوده‌ است

اما درست آنگاه که همه چیز سرراست می‌شود، و «سیریوس» موش را به شکل عادی برمی‌گرداند، و همه امیدوار می‌شوند، که اعتراف او بی گناهی «سیریوس» را ثابت کند؛ همه چیز دوباره نقش بر آب شده، و «پیتر پتی‌گرو» باز هم فرار می‌کند؛ پس از اینکه «سیریوس» دوباره زندانی می‌شود؛ «هری» و «هرمیون گرنجر»، دوست صمیمی «هری»، به گذشته بازگشته، «سیریوس» را نجات می‌دهند؛ همچنین «هری» با موجوداتی به نام «دیوانه‌ ساز» مبارزه می‌کند؛ در نهایت «سیریوس بلک» به یاری ساعت زمان «هرمیون گرینجر» فرار میکند، و «هری» به مدرسه باز می‌گردد؛

نقل از متن: (چندی نگذشته بود که درس دفاع در برابر جادوی سیاه درس محبوب همه‌ ی دانش آموزان شد؛ در این میان فقط «دراکو مالفوی» و دارو دسته‌ اش پشت سر «لوپین» بد و بیراه می‌گفتند؛ هر بار که «لوپین» از جلوی «مالفوی» می‌گذشت او با صدای نسبتاً بلندی زمزمه می‌کرد: رداشو ببین! سر و وضعش مثل جن پیریه که توی خونه‌ ی ما کار می‌کنه؛ اما هیچ کس دیگری به لباس‌های وصله‌ دار و نخ نمای پروفسور «لوپین» توجه نمی‌کرد؛ کلاس‌های «لوپین» هر بار مثل اولین جلسه جالب و دوست‌ داشتنی بودند؛ بعد از لولوخرخره‌ها به درس کلاه قرمزی‌ها رسیدند؛ آن‌ها موجودات بدجنسی شبیه به جن‌ها بودند، و در جاهایی که خون و خون‌ریزی زیاد بود، کمین می‌کردند؛ در سیاه‌ چال قلعه‌ها یا در چاله‌ های میادین جنگ منتظر می‌ماندند، و کسانی را که راهشان را گم کرده بودند، با چوب و چماق می‌زدند؛ بعد از کلاه قرمزی‌ها نوبت به غواص‌ها رسید؛ غواص‌ها موجودات آبزی وحشتناکی شبیه به میمون بودند، که بدنشان از فلس پوشیده شده بود، و منتظر می‌ماندند، تا یک شخص بخت‌ برگشته، و از همه‌ جا بی‌خبر، از کنارشان عبور کند، آن‌وقت با دست‌های پرده‌ دارشان، گلوی رهگذر را می‌فشردند، و به درون آب می‌کشیدند؛ هیچ‌یک از کلاس‌های «هری» به‌ اندازه‌ ی کلاس دفاع در برابر جادوی سیاه، جذاب و دوست‌ داشتنی نبودند؛ از همه بدتر کلاس معجون‌ها بود؛ این روزها «اسنیپ» بسیار کینه‌ جو شده بود و کسی نبود که علت آن را نداند؛ ماجرای لولوخورخوره‌ای که به شکل «اسنیپ» درآمد، و بالباس‌های مادربزرگ «نویل» ظاهر شد، مثل توپ در تمام مدرسه صدا کرده بود؛ به نظر نمی‌رسید که این ماجرا برای «اسنیپ» خنده‌ دار باشد؛ به‌ محض شنیدن نام پروفسور «لوپین» آتش خشم در چشمانش شعله‌ ور می‌شد و این روزها خیلی بیش‌تر از قبل، به تهدید و تحقیر «نویل» می‌پرداخت؛ «هری» دیگر تحمل کلاس دم کرده و خفه‌ ی پروفسور «تریلانی» را نداشت؛ اصلاً حوصله نداشت از راز و رمز شکل‌ها و نشانه‌ های کج‌ و معوج سر درآورد؛ هر بار که چشم پروفسور «تریلانی» به «هری» می‌افتاد، چشم‌های درشتش پر از اشک می‌شد، و «هری» سعی می‌کرد به او توجهی نشان ندهد؛ با اینکه بسیاری از شاگردان کلاس، پروفسور «تریلانی» را به سرحد پرستش دوست داشتند، «هری» به او علاقه‌ ی چندانی نداشت؛ «پروتی پتیل» و «لاوندر براون» هر روز ظهر هنگام صرف ناهار، به سراغ پروفسور «تریلانی» می‌رفتند، و هر بار که از آن برج مطرود دم کرده، بازمی‌گشتند، چنان بادی به غبغب می‌انداختند، که گویی از اخباری اطلاع دارند که دیگران از آن‌ها بی‌خبرند؛ تازگی‌ها هنگام صحبت کردن با «هری»، با حالتی ملایم و دلسوزانه حرف می‌زدند، انگار «هری» را در بستر مرگ تصور می‌کردند)؛ پایان

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March 17,2025
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This - is my review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.... It’s a great book - but not without its…problems….

D’you get it? It’s because every goddamn sentence of this book contains either a dash or an ellipsis. (That’s one of the...problems….)



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I’m debating whether to unleash the anti-Snape rant that’s been building up inside me for a decade now. I think I’ll wait until his supposedly redeeming backstory is revealed. What book is that in? Anyway, just his extensive presence in this book made the whole thing less fun for me.



I feel about Snape the way Michael Scott feels about Toby. But I digress. My main thing with this book is that Rowling can be kind of...bad at fitting the parameters of the universe she created. That’s understandable, since it’s immense and so impressive, but there’s also little common sense things that get under my skin. (This would be under “general stupidity” if I hated this book - which I absolutely don’t.) I wanted to be having a great time, but instead I was caught up in the little mistakes.



Some examples: There’s just no way McGonagall would have given Hermione the Time Turner. No way. I get the significance of the thing to the plot, and it’s a really creative and entertaining concept, but my girl Minerva would NEVER have handed that over. This is the woman who will shut any student down, take Harry Potter’s broom, deduct points from her own team, throw shade at Trelawney...what I’m saying is she’s a one hundred percent badass. And she’s a badass who exudes said badassery with the well-being of all Hogwarts students in mind. But I’m supposed to believe she put herself out there, petitioned the government, and presumably put in effort to convince her fellow faculty just so Hermione could take a purely overwhelming number of classes? Nah. She would have recognized it as unnecessary (Hermione never even gives a reason beyond "wanting to" for her overloaded schedule) and a huge pressure (workload's making a thirteen year old cry all the time and lose the ability to sleep). In other words, Minerva would have shut that shit down in a hot Texas minute.



But wait - I have more examples! Lupin tells us that when he was at Hogwarts, they went through an INSANE amount of work to get him off the grounds when he ~underwent his transformation~. Keep in mind this whole thing is for one. Effing. Student. They put in a magic, violent tree (the infamous Whomping Willow), dig a tunnel that is presumably at least a mile or two long, and mess with (build?) a shack-like shelter. This is way, way, way too much to ensure that a single student can attend the school. But even suspending your disbelief there - why would you put a werewolf inside a WEAK, SHUT UP BUILDING to protect people? One, don’t put a rabid monstrous creature in a house, because two, he can break out of it and now the inhabitants of Hogsmeade are at risk. Also, putting in the Whomping Willow? Are you kidding me? It’s a danger to the students! And so is building a passageway in/out. There are so, so, so many more problems than solutions here.



And here’s the most wild, laughable one for me. At the end, Sirius Black reveals that it was him - HIM! - who bought Harry Potter the Firebolt, hundreds-of-Galleons price tag and all. This is INSANE. Since Ron had earlier mentioned that it would have been impossible for Black to buy a broomstick, J.K. is so kind as to reveal how he did it in his letter to Harry. He says he sent Crookshanks (a f*cking cat) to the Owl Post, had him order the broomstick under Harry’s name, and had it charged to his own bank account at Gringotts. HAHAHAHA, WHAT?! You’re telling me a goddamn cat walked into a post office, conveyed the information that Harry Potter was ordering the most expensive broom on the market, and charged it to the most wanted man in Britain’s account without consequence? Like everyone was just like, yeah, okay, we didn’t really want to find him anyway? We won’t bring this up to the Ministry or Potter or anything? Jeeessssuuuuussss. Also, how did my guy have that much money in his account anyway? How is his account even open?



Also, I know this is well-discussed, but there is just so much conflicting information about how many people attend Hogwarts. It drives me insane. I’ll never be satisfied with one answer, because there are always a million other pieces of evidence that conflict.



The sheer confusion of the story relayed in the Shrieking Shack was also so confusing. Like, I get why there had to be a dozen f*cking pages of Black/Lupin begging the story to be told and Hermione/Ron/Harry essentially covering their ears and singing “Walking on Sunshine,” but they couldn’t at least have told the story with some semblance of organization once they finally got there? I mean, Jesus.



On the other hand, characters. Hermione is still killin’ it - Time Turner, baby! And slaying those exams! But she did have less time with the squad (fighting) and a lot of scenes where it was just like, “Oh. Yeah. Hermione. Uh, she’s...doing homework over there.” Plus Neville was not really included, like, at all. But Lupin was introduced, and he’s one of my favorites! But Snape was here as hell and I hate him so much. But no Colin Creevey or Lockhart or Dobby! But Trelawney and Malfoy and Pansy. But Sirius! But mainly he was villain-ing it up. Oh well. It’s a real 50/50 in this one.



Still, it was definitely enjoyable. Like, I read it in pretty much one sitting, and I haven’t done that in a whileeee. I missed doing it. And this was so, so much better than the second book. So this is so hard to rate! I am having a really hard time here, you guys.



And my absolute favorite aspect of these books - which was missing in the second volume - was one hundred percent present and accounted for. I’m talking a look into the world, baby! We get Hogsmeade, we get an entire fortnight of Diagon Alley, we get a bunch of discussion of the school and the classes. Even the bad parts, like Azkaban. Ugh! I could read a series’ worth of books just on the world, I swear.



So, bottom line: In some ways I liked this as much as the first, but it definitely had more problems. I am looking forward to continuing my reread, and hopin’ I find just as much of the world and even more of the good characters. Goblet of Fire, I expect to see you soon!
March 17,2025
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

At this point, you’ve either read the Harry Potter series, or you’ve deliberately chosen not to read them. Either way, there’s not much to say here.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is where the Harry Potter series really starts to deepen. The introduction of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black gives Harry new ways to learn the story of his parents. But what I love most about this book is that it’s the first one (but not the last) that does not resolve everything at the end. Sirius is innocent but still a fugitive, and Harry realizes that Dumbledore can’t fix everything.

The author may have let people down later in her life; people sometimes suck more than you realize at first. But the Harry Potter series is an achievement that will outlast her and all of us. If somehow you’ve stubbornly refused to read it, you are really missing out.
March 17,2025
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Messieurs Lunard, Queudver, Patmol et Cornedrue
spécialistes en assistance
aux Maniganceurs de Mauvais Coups
sont fiers de vous présenter.
LA CARTE DU MARAUDEUR


I have to say that after all this time I have a bigger appreciation for the third book than I did before. And it was sadder than I realised. Knowing what's going to happen.
No matter how many times I read this, it's still amazing.

Je jure solennellement que mes intentions sont mauvaises.
March 17,2025
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(A) 85% | Extraordinary
Notes: Separating itself from its forebears, it's a story of greater complexity, darker tones, and a vastly expanded mythology.
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The third HP adventure serves to bring the likable Sirius Black into the story and get Gryffindor their Quidditch Cup, but the story and action was still far less gripping than the first novel. I thought that Lupin was an interesting character, but less spectacular than the previous two teachers against the Black Arts. I recall reading this for the first time nearly two decades ago when it came out and losing enthusiasm for the Harry Potter universe. However, I read it again so that I can read the rest with my son (he refused to read 2 and 3 with me because he felt they were the weakest books in the series and I have to say I agree with him). Nonetheless, one must read this story for the long game if one wishes to make sense of the rest. I am still a bit baffled by the whole switcheroo that Prang & Co did leading to the death of HP's father and mother, but perhaps they will return to that later.
On to The Goblet of Fire and the Quidditch World Cup!
March 17,2025
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Re-read 2/18/21:

I began teaching my dual-language daughter to read English last year during the quarantines. We quickly ran through the basic exercises and went straight into the good stuff, reading the first two Harry Potters with great fanfare, movie watching, and props.

She's doing well. Reading very well, with emphasis and understanding even though no school here has gone beyond anything more than days of the week. *groan*

I'm here to announce that Harry Potter is one of the greatest teaching tools. Good s**t is always better than practically anything else we could have tried.

Oh, and after all these re-reads, and despite knowing the story so well, I still burst into tears while reading my parts. My girl stared at me each time as if I'd grown another head. Do you know that scene when Harry hid behind the bush at the lake? Yeah. That scene. I swear I made the lake.

Teaching this way is definitely the best way.


The Other Reviews:

I read this as a buddy read, but really I wanted to compare the text to the movies more than anything. I've watched them so much and I've only read the series once through. (Now twice through this third book.)

So what do I think about this monstrosity of a series that gets so many hearts a-pumpin? About this book in particular?

I love it.

But how about this book in comparison to the film, you ask?

ALAS! I like the movie better.

What??? Blasphemy! Heretic!

No no no, give me a chance. I liked the fact that Hermione develops real stressed-out reasons for giving up the time-turner even if the reasons are still rather weak, all told, when taken in conjunction with all the other crap that happens in the series later. It'll always be one of those hedge-moments for me. BUT, putting that aside, the actual narrative events that happen in the book that I think are the best parts, namely the space of a certain 3-hour stretch, BOTH times, were much more fascinating and fleshed out in the movie.

Sorry! It's true! All the expressions and the little tidbits and quirks were more brilliant on the screen. And so was the penultimate event that always... ALWAYS brings tears to my eyes... the moment when Harry realizes that he was the one to bring out that awesome power to save himself. Even now I tear up when I think about it.

Yes, the book has it, but the build-up was just too quick in the text. The movie, however, did what movies are brilliant at... SHOWING us the enormity of the event. Sometimes it just takes the right media.

The movie is my favorite of the series. I'm reserving judgment as to whether the book is as well. (At least until I finish my re-read. :)
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