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BOOK DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Nov 06, 2014 06:48

“I’ll understand, of course, if you want to stay with your aunt and uncle,” said Sirius. “But…well…think about it. Once my name’s cleared…if you wanted a…a different home…”

Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Harry’s stomach.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in 1999-fifteen years ago! Book Three left many of us ( Read more... )

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yamapea November 7 2014, 02:53:53 UTC

kate34books November 7 2014, 23:24:46 UTC

it was really unfair.

Harry finally had a chance to escape the horrible dursleys and then poof! gone.

sparkysparky November 8 2014, 00:21:02 UTC

I was sooooo upset. Fuck Snape anyway, lol

sparkysparky November 8 2014, 00:07:27 UTC

Oh lord, where do j start with my love of this book? I read it roughly 5 days after starting the series, and i read it straight through the night. It was the first time I started to realize these were more than just fun children's books.

gwendolyngrace November 8 2014, 01:11:20 UTC

So, I have to say that Remus being a werewolf did not surprise me in the slightest. What surprised me was that he was not also Sirius Black in disguise. I admit that I had to go back and re-read Philosopher's Stone to see the early reference to "Young Sirius Black" and remember that he was not supposed to be a bad guy. But based on the name (Remus Lupin), the fact that he was never around at the full moon OR when Sirius Black was sighted, and that Harry kept seeing a black dog....I smooshed the two characters together and figured that Remus Lupin was an alias / disguise that Sirius was using to gain entry to the castle. I had a feeling he probably wasn't as bad as we were meant to think (just like Snape, who I knew from the start was not the villain of Philosopher's Stone), but I was so focused on "teacher is someone in disguise" that I was quite surprised and pleased by the eventual reveal ( ... )

kate34books November 13 2014, 17:45:19 UTC

just curious, why do you think the time traveling was flawed?

taking out the posibility of them going back years and fixing everything (which Rowling revealed in pottermore they couldn't have done without risking not only the past but also them aging up and dying)

what do you think was wrong with it?

ladysugarquill November 17 2014, 04:04:47 UTC

This. I think this book's take on time-travel is flawless.