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This might be my favorite one yet! ☺️
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Of-course, this book was EPIC! =D
Its Harry Potter now. It has to be epic! *Rolling eyes but smiling widely* xD
Its Harry Potter now. It has to be epic! *Rolling eyes but smiling widely* xD
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The Harry Potter books are a bit of a puzzle. The series started to get into print only twenty years ago. It was initially intended, despite the massive page count of these novels, as a young boy’s read. Today, it’s already the best-selling book series in human history (half a billion copies sold to date), the most translated literary work and, as a result, one of the most read piece of literature in the world, just behind the Bible and neck and neck with Don Quixote (1605). Why is that? I kept asking myself while reading The Prisoner of Azkaban…
This third instalment in the series is indeed an excellent sample of Bildungsroman. As in The Philosopher's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets, we follow the adventures of a young orphan boy who lives, during summer, in South East England, with his cruel foster parents (a parody of Victor Hugo’s Thénardiers or Dickens’s Murdstones). We also know from the first book — and just from general knowledge — that Harry Potter has magical powers. As the school year begins, he joins his two friends, Ron and Hermione, and goes to Hogwarts, a boarding school for young wizards and witches. The different classes alternate, held by a rather flamboyant staff (Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Hagrid, etc.). There’s a Quidditch — magical team sport — championship going on, where Harry is a crucial element (a bit too much of that stuff to my mind). There’s the nasty foolish brat (Malfoy and his gang), with whom he has to struggle. But above all else, there’s a mystery plot going on, that involves Harry and the evil forces the archenemy (Voldemort and his gang) is marshalling against him. Many plot twists and mythological tropes later, and right at the end of the school year, the mystery is lifted (as in Agatha Christie’s novels), and Harry and his friends are victorious.
This brief (spoiler-free) summary calls for a couple of comments that might shed some light on a few of the reason why the Harry Potter books kindle so much enthusiasm for so many readers:
The setting contributes to a strange sense of realism. The world-building is extensive, but unlike most fantasy novels, set in wholly imaginary worlds, J.K. Rowling manages to structure the surroundings of her books as an in-between. It's a world where people can seamlessly go back and forth between the mundane (Dursleys' house in Surrey, King’s Cross station in London…) and the poetic and imaginary (Diagon Alley, Hogwarts School, the village of Hogsmeade…). This odd sort of magical realism somehow suggests that the magic world is real and unseen rather than merely fictional.
The plot framework is identical to that of the first two instalments. Only some characters change, as well as the nature of the mystery Harry needs to solve. It naturally could be seen as a repetitive, almost predictable story. But I suspect that this sort of variation on the same, efficient, firmly established scenario, is part of the pleasure these books provide. The very pleasure children may draw from hearing the same bedside story over and over again, the sheer joy we, as adults, take from watching TV series that develop the same overall plot over and over.
Furthermore, the general story isn’t incredibly original: the story of the poor orphan who discovers he has extraordinary powers and eventually becomes a celebrity is very similar to that of Cinderella’s or The Ugly Duckling’s plot. (There's an excellent video with Kurt Vonnegut on the Cinderella-type plot.) But this is, in fact, a story that lets the readers secretly sense or hope that they are more than what they (and others) might think. It's a call to a better Self.
Edited to add: note that the plot around Harry Potter is very similar to the one around Luke Skywalker (Star Wars): a lad of humble origins who must fight a monstrous devil, a group of assorted chums, various challenges overcome, the evil defeated against all the odds, etc. People love that story!
Whereas most of the characters in the story are well-drawn and colourful (think Hagrid, Hermione, Snape, even Pettigrew — a shrewd invention on Rowling's part), the very character of Harry, even though he is a central figure in the middle of everything else, comes across as somewhat bland and bloodless. In a way, Harry Potter (a common name) is a blank figure, and just as Ulysses, he could say: “my name is Οὖτις (no-one)”. Or in other words: “my name is potentially everyone, including you, faithful reader. I am the mirror of your life.”
In the end, the one and (almost) only thing Harry Potter profoundly expresses is his unconditional love for his deceased parents: in a word, a feeling of endless mourning. This, albeit a bit soppy, is perhaps one of the most profound things the Harry Potter novels convey: what is truly magical and precious isn’t the many tricks and spells taught at Hogwarts. It is the past love that, in some way or other, we received at the beginning of our lives and which goes on through friendship.
A final note: the best part of The Prisoner of Azkaban is probably the last hundred pages, and especially the story around the Time-Turner device. Alfonso Cuarón's film manages to make the most of it in what is perhaps the best of all the Harry Potter movie adaptations.
This third instalment in the series is indeed an excellent sample of Bildungsroman. As in The Philosopher's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets, we follow the adventures of a young orphan boy who lives, during summer, in South East England, with his cruel foster parents (a parody of Victor Hugo’s Thénardiers or Dickens’s Murdstones). We also know from the first book — and just from general knowledge — that Harry Potter has magical powers. As the school year begins, he joins his two friends, Ron and Hermione, and goes to Hogwarts, a boarding school for young wizards and witches. The different classes alternate, held by a rather flamboyant staff (Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Hagrid, etc.). There’s a Quidditch — magical team sport — championship going on, where Harry is a crucial element (a bit too much of that stuff to my mind). There’s the nasty foolish brat (Malfoy and his gang), with whom he has to struggle. But above all else, there’s a mystery plot going on, that involves Harry and the evil forces the archenemy (Voldemort and his gang) is marshalling against him. Many plot twists and mythological tropes later, and right at the end of the school year, the mystery is lifted (as in Agatha Christie’s novels), and Harry and his friends are victorious.
This brief (spoiler-free) summary calls for a couple of comments that might shed some light on a few of the reason why the Harry Potter books kindle so much enthusiasm for so many readers:
The setting contributes to a strange sense of realism. The world-building is extensive, but unlike most fantasy novels, set in wholly imaginary worlds, J.K. Rowling manages to structure the surroundings of her books as an in-between. It's a world where people can seamlessly go back and forth between the mundane (Dursleys' house in Surrey, King’s Cross station in London…) and the poetic and imaginary (Diagon Alley, Hogwarts School, the village of Hogsmeade…). This odd sort of magical realism somehow suggests that the magic world is real and unseen rather than merely fictional.
The plot framework is identical to that of the first two instalments. Only some characters change, as well as the nature of the mystery Harry needs to solve. It naturally could be seen as a repetitive, almost predictable story. But I suspect that this sort of variation on the same, efficient, firmly established scenario, is part of the pleasure these books provide. The very pleasure children may draw from hearing the same bedside story over and over again, the sheer joy we, as adults, take from watching TV series that develop the same overall plot over and over.
Furthermore, the general story isn’t incredibly original: the story of the poor orphan who discovers he has extraordinary powers and eventually becomes a celebrity is very similar to that of Cinderella’s or The Ugly Duckling’s plot. (There's an excellent video with Kurt Vonnegut on the Cinderella-type plot.) But this is, in fact, a story that lets the readers secretly sense or hope that they are more than what they (and others) might think. It's a call to a better Self.
Edited to add: note that the plot around Harry Potter is very similar to the one around Luke Skywalker (Star Wars): a lad of humble origins who must fight a monstrous devil, a group of assorted chums, various challenges overcome, the evil defeated against all the odds, etc. People love that story!
Whereas most of the characters in the story are well-drawn and colourful (think Hagrid, Hermione, Snape, even Pettigrew — a shrewd invention on Rowling's part), the very character of Harry, even though he is a central figure in the middle of everything else, comes across as somewhat bland and bloodless. In a way, Harry Potter (a common name) is a blank figure, and just as Ulysses, he could say: “my name is Οὖτις (no-one)”. Or in other words: “my name is potentially everyone, including you, faithful reader. I am the mirror of your life.”
In the end, the one and (almost) only thing Harry Potter profoundly expresses is his unconditional love for his deceased parents: in a word, a feeling of endless mourning. This, albeit a bit soppy, is perhaps one of the most profound things the Harry Potter novels convey: what is truly magical and precious isn’t the many tricks and spells taught at Hogwarts. It is the past love that, in some way or other, we received at the beginning of our lives and which goes on through friendship.
A final note: the best part of The Prisoner of Azkaban is probably the last hundred pages, and especially the story around the Time-Turner device. Alfonso Cuarón's film manages to make the most of it in what is perhaps the best of all the Harry Potter movie adaptations.
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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. :)
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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This is definitely my favorite one in the series so far! The improvement of Rowling's writing style compared to the first two books (which were absolutely amazing as well!) is very evident - there is a lot more build up and suspense in the tense and exciting scenes. The parts that included foreshadowing were carefully placed and not too obvious.
I have a deep love for the new characters (and the old ones were as lovely as always). They are just all so well developed and interesting and lovable, as well as a perfect mixture of strengths and flaws.
I also, like with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), was surprised at the amount of humor that's included. I often found myself chuckling and even laughing out loud. I just had so much fun while reading!
During the end, where all the conclusions are laid out, Rowling was being very thorough. I don't think that any questions are left open. Everything was well thought through, so that every single little detail adds up and makes sense. That's definitely something I wish I would read more often in other books!
I have a deep love for the new characters (and the old ones were as lovely as always). They are just all so well developed and interesting and lovable, as well as a perfect mixture of strengths and flaws.
I also, like with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), was surprised at the amount of humor that's included. I often found myself chuckling and even laughing out loud. I just had so much fun while reading!
During the end, where all the conclusions are laid out, Rowling was being very thorough. I don't think that any questions are left open. Everything was well thought through, so that every single little detail adds up and makes sense. That's definitely something I wish I would read more often in other books!
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TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. TRANS MEN ARE MEN. NON-BINARY PEOPLE ARE NON-BINARY.
Harry Potter changed my life and the memories I have associated with it can never be changed or tarnished no matter what its creator says or does. Her comments have caused me so much pain and disappointment and even if one day she realises how ignorant and hateful she has been it is now too late to amend the harm she has caused. Nevertheless, like Daniel Radcliffe said the relationship between a reader and a book is sacred and nothing can change that. Harry Potter is no longer hers and I will continue loving and cherishing this world and these characters forever (and yes, I will be re-reading the series and watching the movies time and time again during my lifetime).
However, I can no longer support her or her future work. Rowling is TRANSPHOBIC and supporting her in any way, shape or form supports her views and harms trans people and the LGBTQ+ community profoundly. I cannot take back the money I have given her already, but I can choose to never again spend money that will go directly in her pockets.
I want to use this space to encourage everyone to support trans authors and read more literature featuring trans characters. This page is a good place to start.
Please consider donating to a trans charity of your choice (MermaidsUK could be a place to start, because they have been directly attacked by Rowling) and click here to find about more trans organisations in the UK and what you can do to help.
If you still love Harry Potter that’s okay but stop supporting Rowling and stop putting any more money in her pockets. Let’s all actively work together to make this fandom inclusive to everyone and show trans people especially that we are a loving community who would never question their identity or experience.
Harry Potter changed my life and the memories I have associated with it can never be changed or tarnished no matter what its creator says or does. Her comments have caused me so much pain and disappointment and even if one day she realises how ignorant and hateful she has been it is now too late to amend the harm she has caused. Nevertheless, like Daniel Radcliffe said the relationship between a reader and a book is sacred and nothing can change that. Harry Potter is no longer hers and I will continue loving and cherishing this world and these characters forever (and yes, I will be re-reading the series and watching the movies time and time again during my lifetime).
However, I can no longer support her or her future work. Rowling is TRANSPHOBIC and supporting her in any way, shape or form supports her views and harms trans people and the LGBTQ+ community profoundly. I cannot take back the money I have given her already, but I can choose to never again spend money that will go directly in her pockets.
I want to use this space to encourage everyone to support trans authors and read more literature featuring trans characters. This page is a good place to start.
Please consider donating to a trans charity of your choice (MermaidsUK could be a place to start, because they have been directly attacked by Rowling) and click here to find about more trans organisations in the UK and what you can do to help.
If you still love Harry Potter that’s okay but stop supporting Rowling and stop putting any more money in her pockets. Let’s all actively work together to make this fandom inclusive to everyone and show trans people especially that we are a loving community who would never question their identity or experience.
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This home prison a.k.a voluntarily quarantine making cookies and throwing them into trash days( I never say I’m a good cook and each day I’m getting worse!) giving me nostalgic vibes. It’s like living never ending mercury retrograde! You don’t want to start a new thing, you have to go back to your past or you have to deal with your unfinished businesses.
Of course this is not a book from my TBR or DNF list. I’ve read it very same day it has been released: 16 freaking years ago when I was still hot, dump, in my silly 20’s . The year I finished it, I flipped my bird to my managers at the workplace and quitted for chasing my writing dreams. (It was not entertaining, sunshine and rainbow story, there is so much rebellion, pain, fight, humiliation but freedom never comes without dues to pay!) And after devouring this book in one day( because I locked myself at my childhood room. Yes, I was single! It was easier to isolate yourself!) and I decided that’s my all time favorite Harry Potter book (I know there were more to come but my life was changing and my three musketeers’ lives were also going different directions. They were finally growing up, just like me!)
Sirius Black has a special place in my heart and at the beginning he escaped from Azkaban and we think he was after Harry to kill him. This book faces Harry’s past trauma about his family, his guilt feelings, night terror, his self insecurities and sometimes we think his inner demons were more terrifying than the outside world’s vicious, dangerous avengers coming after him.
And at the end, Harry and Sirius’s special relationship always melts my heart and fills my eyes in tears. I always find this is one of the most meaningful and genuine relationships JKR formed between two characters.
And we also see the growing pains of two main characters: Ron always loyal, likable, witty and Hermione is passionate, intelligent but also kind-hearted.
Maybe this is the best part of their story because after this book, everything gets bleaker, darker and more violent! My dear three musketeers’ lives will never be the same.
I read this book 16 years by locking myself in my room and as a de je vu or reenactment of my younger and dumber self, I reread my favorite HP book. I smiled, entertained, cried, jumped, horrified again! And I felt good and gave my five gazillion stars over and over again!
In these days, the best thing you gotta do: sticking with the things that makes you happy and rekindle your past experiments by making a visit to your memory lane with a great book!
That’s what I did and it worked so well with me!
Of course this is not a book from my TBR or DNF list. I’ve read it very same day it has been released: 16 freaking years ago when I was still hot, dump, in my silly 20’s . The year I finished it, I flipped my bird to my managers at the workplace and quitted for chasing my writing dreams. (It was not entertaining, sunshine and rainbow story, there is so much rebellion, pain, fight, humiliation but freedom never comes without dues to pay!) And after devouring this book in one day( because I locked myself at my childhood room. Yes, I was single! It was easier to isolate yourself!) and I decided that’s my all time favorite Harry Potter book (I know there were more to come but my life was changing and my three musketeers’ lives were also going different directions. They were finally growing up, just like me!)
Sirius Black has a special place in my heart and at the beginning he escaped from Azkaban and we think he was after Harry to kill him. This book faces Harry’s past trauma about his family, his guilt feelings, night terror, his self insecurities and sometimes we think his inner demons were more terrifying than the outside world’s vicious, dangerous avengers coming after him.
And at the end, Harry and Sirius’s special relationship always melts my heart and fills my eyes in tears. I always find this is one of the most meaningful and genuine relationships JKR formed between two characters.
And we also see the growing pains of two main characters: Ron always loyal, likable, witty and Hermione is passionate, intelligent but also kind-hearted.
Maybe this is the best part of their story because after this book, everything gets bleaker, darker and more violent! My dear three musketeers’ lives will never be the same.
I read this book 16 years by locking myself in my room and as a de je vu or reenactment of my younger and dumber self, I reread my favorite HP book. I smiled, entertained, cried, jumped, horrified again! And I felt good and gave my five gazillion stars over and over again!
In these days, the best thing you gotta do: sticking with the things that makes you happy and rekindle your past experiments by making a visit to your memory lane with a great book!
That’s what I did and it worked so well with me!
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This one is definitely my favourite of the 3 i've read so far.. :)
(Watch my review here): https://youtu.be/gFZ99uPXiIU
(Watch my review here): https://youtu.be/gFZ99uPXiIU
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Re-read - Only the Quidditch scenes earned five stars from me. This book is EPIC. Suffice to say that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the best of the series. The story gets darker and more complex than the previous books. Harry, Ron and Hermiome don't chase the clue this time, they have to find a way to guard their lives from the most horrendous prisoner, Sirius Black.
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Harry grows up through this book, he tries to learn new magic and overcome his fear. Dementors are the symbol Rowling created to stand for your fear in the deepest of your mind, and it quite works for me very well, this creature makes the book gloomy and grey. I loved the scene when Harry is fell from his broom., it's everything to me. PERFECTION.
And the movie, oh no ! I don't want to talk about the movie on this page but let me. It is very amazing and captivating, I extrememly like about time travel, it's pure magic. For the first time I read this book, I gasped and gasped and gasped and couldn't stop gasping for the ending. It's what I asked for and it's perfect. Trust me, this book is the last book that will leave you feel whole after you finish it. Because in the next one, this feeling will vanish and it's hurt like Avada Kedavra running through your heart !
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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”n
Re-read - Only the Quidditch scenes earned five stars from me. This book is EPIC. Suffice to say that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the best of the series. The story gets darker and more complex than the previous books. Harry, Ron and Hermiome don't chase the clue this time, they have to find a way to guard their lives from the most horrendous prisoner, Sirius Black.
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“Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.”n
Harry grows up through this book, he tries to learn new magic and overcome his fear. Dementors are the symbol Rowling created to stand for your fear in the deepest of your mind, and it quite works for me very well, this creature makes the book gloomy and grey. I loved the scene when Harry is fell from his broom., it's everything to me. PERFECTION.
And the movie, oh no ! I don't want to talk about the movie on this page but let me. It is very amazing and captivating, I extrememly like about time travel, it's pure magic. For the first time I read this book, I gasped and gasped and gasped and couldn't stop gasping for the ending. It's what I asked for and it's perfect. Trust me, this book is the last book that will leave you feel whole after you finish it. Because in the next one, this feeling will vanish and it's hurt like Avada Kedavra running through your heart !
n “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”n
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n He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...n
Smart move Harry. Hats off to you!
Audiobook Comments
Read by Jim Dale - and he nailed it. This series was just absolutely amazing on audio.
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n "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"n
true
if you count fangirling as one
4.5 Golden stars
93%
For some reason, I never really liked Prisoner of Azkaban when I was younger, I thought it as a sidejob, after Chamber of Secrets & that big Revelation, I waited for more (& there was a little amount of waiting before the book been translated, so maybe that might be a reason too, a kind of mild disappointment & no book after that.), so I thought it was, not as important as the last book... but after 13/14th re-read in 2019; I figured out I loved this side of the story too! (it's easier to love when you have all the books in the series)
it's CUTE & Awesome! funny & magical! & all those backstories! the real rate actually improved.
this book is Beautiful & absolutely deserves 5.
the beginning of the story, always unique, funny & Great:
"Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard."
Epic chapters in an Epic world
Amazing story, full of Amazing characters & Amazing revelations!
interesting plot (& plot twists)
the Marauders & their history!
Lupin, witty & mischievous
no surprise he was the brain of the squad
"I've got only teabags, I'm afraid- but I daresay you've had enough of tea leaves?"
Harry looked at him & Lupin's eyes were twinkling.
he's so sweet & caring & motivational
Quidditch! not once, not twice, but 3 times! by that funny commentating!
with lots & lots of adventures.
& so much FUN! (I forced myself stop laughing in the middle of the nights when everyone was asleep. mostly by Ron, Fred & George, Harry, Lee & sometimes Wood when it comes to Quidditch.)
"I don't go looking for trouble, trouble usually finds me..."
"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.”
Sassy Harry XD
& can we appreciate Harry could recognize Fred from George when everyone else just can't tell them apart? (I'm so proud!)
"Mischief Managed"
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World building: ★★★★★/5
Characters: ★★★★★/5
Written style: ★★★★★/5
Plot: ★★★★★/5
Cover: ★★★★★/5 (this cover is GORGEOUS!)
General idea: ★★★★★/5
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if you count fangirling as one
4.5 Golden stars
93%
For some reason, I never really liked Prisoner of Azkaban when I was younger, I thought it as a sidejob, after Chamber of Secrets & that big Revelation, I waited for more (& there was a little amount of waiting before the book been translated, so maybe that might be a reason too, a kind of mild disappointment & no book after that.), so I thought it was, not as important as the last book... but after 13/14th re-read in 2019; I figured out I loved this side of the story too! (it's easier to love when you have all the books in the series)
it's CUTE & Awesome! funny & magical! & all those backstories! the real rate actually improved.
this book is Beautiful & absolutely deserves 5.
the beginning of the story, always unique, funny & Great:
"Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard."
Epic chapters in an Epic world
Amazing story, full of Amazing characters & Amazing revelations!
interesting plot (& plot twists)
the Marauders & their history!
Lupin, witty & mischievous
no surprise he was the brain of the squad
"I've got only teabags, I'm afraid- but I daresay you've had enough of tea leaves?"
Harry looked at him & Lupin's eyes were twinkling.
he's so sweet & caring & motivational
Quidditch! not once, not twice, but 3 times! by that funny commentating!
with lots & lots of adventures.
& so much FUN! (I forced myself stop laughing in the middle of the nights when everyone was asleep. mostly by Ron, Fred & George, Harry, Lee & sometimes Wood when it comes to Quidditch.)
"I don't go looking for trouble, trouble usually finds me..."
"Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you.”
Sassy Harry XD
& can we appreciate Harry could recognize Fred from George when everyone else just can't tell them apart? (I'm so proud!)
"Mischief Managed"
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World building: ★★★★★/5
Characters: ★★★★★/5
Written style: ★★★★★/5
Plot: ★★★★★/5
Cover: ★★★★★/5 (this cover is GORGEOUS!)
General idea: ★★★★★/5
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