Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

This one definitely wasn't as good as the second one. Not much happened, really.

ya sirius!!!!!!!

Rowling does it again with Harry and the gang, though I am rather tired of our noble hero. Perhaps it is diminished by viewing the film beforehand but Snape, in my mind, will always be Alan Rickman, and is ill-maligned too much of the time. Rowling's plots are getting tighter and tighter and this one is no exception with great surprises in the last chapters.

Really liked this one.

I got nothin' for this one. Managed to get through it in 5 or 6 hours, so I'm either getting better at skipping the pointless adverbs at the end of every piece of dialogue, or just better at not pausing to go, "someone just said something inquiringly, holy shit, someone just really did that." Cool list that has all the adverbs in just one chapter of one of the books (please don't read article too hard he is a bit daft) : http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article... The general response to this is that nobody complains about the clauses she also pins to dialogue. The adverbs are way way more obvious and everyone understands what's wrong with them in a couple seconds of explaining, even if they go "yeah whatever _I didn't notice_" not realizing that of course they didn't, they're terrible readers. The second part of the clause thing is that, while it's a cheap way to do things, it is at least reasonable. You can pin action to dialogue, but you should never pin dialoguely to dialogue.

This is one of my favorites of the series! It introduces Sirius Black and Remus Lupin who are some of my favorite characters.

series of my childhood!

It was always one of my two favorite Harry Potter books and I still think it's terrific!

First of all, Im in love with these books since I was 12 years old, when I got my first book for Christmas. I was hooked then, and I am still now, several years, books, movies and theme parks later. One piece of me will always dream about this magical world, and Hogwarts will always be my home. Having said that, this is one of my favorite books of the saga. Just second to the Order of the Phoenix. I just love how this book gets darker, and we get to know a little bit more about Harry's dad and that past. The story keeps getting better and better, and one can't help but be happy to enter that world once again and keep fighting the dark wizard! Spoilers alert: One thing that will never make sense, is why they let Hermione use that thing to go back to the past to take some more classes, but not to save Harry's parents or something like that. I know it would hurt the plot a lot, but I think Rowling shouldn't have made something so powerful.

Whenever I read this book, I can't help resenting the horrible hatchet job done on the movie adaptation. The warmth, the friendship between Harry and Lupin, the influence of Snape, and the discovery of the Marauders are part of what makes this book so magical. On screen, most of that is missing, downplayed, or given too much of an oddball sense of humor that doesn't fit Rowling's natural charm. If you can get through this book without being madly in love with Remus Lupin, my hat goes off to you -- he won me over the instant he shot the gum Peeves was stuffing keyholes with up the Poltergeist's nose. His tenderness is apparent, in the fact that unlike most of the characters, he never "shouts," only patiently inquires. By the end, we are sad to see him go -- and angry at the reasons that force him to do so. This book takes you through the ups and downs of being thirteen, of immaturity and tested friendships, of Hermione's stress in taking on too much, and finally gives you a beautiful emotional fulfillment at the end that sends you rushing to read the next book. It's my favorite of the Potter books. Between the gentle Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and the unusual, time-twisting climax, I don't think it's hard to see why.