Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Name: Claudia Martinez DATE: Feb. 12, 2010
TITLE: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Akzkaban TIME: 3 DAYS and 1/2 [not like full day reading just for some time each day]
AUTHOR: J.K Rowling PAGES: 435


QUESTION: #19 What in the book upsets you or bothers you? Why?

RESPONCE:
I don't like the fact that the book is diffrent from the movie - they change to many things and take out some of the cool parts. It bugs me that they took the scenes where harry is spending most of his time near Kings cross in all the magic stores and stuff. Also what happened to the part when Harry meets Ron and Hermonie in the book...its not in the movie. Overall though the book is so much better and makes more sense then just randomly changing the scene with drakening the lights. The books better than the movie and it tells you more information that is never mentioned in the movie.



QUESTION: #8 What do you think about a particular characters actions? Was she/he right or wrong to do that?

RESPONCE:
There is a part in the book when its christmas and Harry recieves a firebolt as his present..... he doesn't know whos it from but still its a FIREBOLT the fastest newest model Quidditch broomstick that real players use. Anyways he gets it and he's like super excited about it since he's been wanting it ever since he was at Tom's place and his broomstick [Nimbus two thousand] broke., so like Hermonie comes and thinks its liked jinxed or something so she goes off and tells Pro. Mcgonagall which inssits on checking so she like takes it away. AND this was all Heronies fault because she couldn't stand not knowing who gave Harry that broom and also because she was scared it might be from Siruis Black who she then thought was a killer. I don' t think Heronie had the right to tell the teacher if Harry didn't want it checked that was his bussness, then again she was only worried about his safety and thats why Harry when recieving his jinx free broom back thanked her for carrying.


QUESTION: #13 Which character would you like to be like? In what way? Why?

RESPONCE:
I would like to be Hermonie because she is like super smart in both muggle and wizard things and she is best friends with Harry and Ron meaning whenever something happens she's there and she too gets to go on cool adventures with Harry and Ron. Also in this book thanks to her they go back in time and save two lives. Well not thanks to her but thanks to her having a time turner which is technically a time machine but like around your neck. So yeah thats pretty much why I would want to be like Hermonie.



QUESTION: #6 Explain how the author creates suspense in this book.

RESPONCE:
J.K Rowling changes the day or date every chapter but she does it like in cool way... like I don't notice because Im so into reading the book that any change is like not noticible. She is good at changing the subject but not making it seem random. She creates suspense by not making too many happy things happen to Harry but also adding some misery for him and then twisting things around so that you don't know what to expect of the book, and not knowing what will come next. Thats what makes me want to keep reading the book. When I guess whats going to happen next sometimes I'm wrong which makes it cool because that means its not to easy to figure out. Thats what creates suspense in the book and how the author does it.



QUESTION: #9 What is confusing in this book? Why? [Be Specific]

RESPONCE:
The confusins part of the book is the ending or near the ending when they turn the time turner three times and go back in time, which is when Harry, Ron and Hermonie were on their way to visiting Hagrid. Everything that I had read a few chapter ago is being repeated but by Hermonie and Harrys point of view and they must not be seen. Its not confusing if you read slowly the part where Dumbledore is talking to them but seriously other than that skipping that part would get you lost. Also what I think is confusing is how Buck beak and Siruis manage to leave before Macnair comes back with the dementors and still Harry and Hermonie make it barely in time [1 min.] to be in Madam Pomferys Hospital Wing. Its a tight schedule but they make it and noone sees them..... how "lucky."


QUESTION: # 21 Summary.


RESPONCE:
SO it all begins with Harry being at the Dursleys home and Aunt Marge is comeing so he needs to act all good and stuff. With Harry having to do his homwork at night quietly he finds his persmission slip form and Uncle Vernon and Harry make like a deal or bargain. If Harry acts good when Aunt Marge is there his uncle will sign it. SO the lady arrives Harry blows her up becomes of an arrgument and leaves out into the cold. He is taken byt the knight bus and they take him to the Leaky Cauldron. Before he gets of the Kinght bus he is told about Siruis Black. He stays there for some time like weeks and meets Hermonie and Ron there where they all go to Hogwarts Express together. The morning they are about to leave the Leaky Cauldorn Harry overhears Mr. Weasley arguing with his wife about telling Harry about his godfather Siruis. They are on the train when they stop and they feel cold. A dementor is inside and goes into Harrys compartment, it makes Harry faint. He wakes up and they head to the castle and the feast that waits them. They are introduced to their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher [ Pro. R.J Lupin]. They begin classes the next day. Hermonie gets the time turner from Pr. Mcgonagall and uses it to go to many classes with a very tight schedule. Before his first match Sruis bacl attempts to go into Grrifandor tower by sacring the fat lady away so sir Cadogan is placed there. Harry playing quiditch later on bumps into a dementor making him lose hold of the snitch and lose the game. His broomstick brakes but then later on in christmas recieves a Firebolt. All he needs is the dementor classes with Lupin. By this time Sirius again attempts to enter Harrys team tower and succeeds. First Hogsmeade trip and he can't go because nonone will give him permission. He takes dementor classes with Pro. Lupin every tuesday I think and later on wins his next game against Slytherin and catches the golden snitch. Grrifandor wins the Quidditch cup but they also have sad buckbeack news. They go off to visit him because Buckbeak will be maybe getting exacuted. They go down and see Hagrid but then leave because the Comitte for Dangerous Creatures comes. They are on their way back when Ron gets pulled into a whole near the Whomping Willow. They go in try to rescue him then all this talk happens about how he's innocent and Rons rat isn't a rat its a man named Peter Pattigrew. By this time Lupin is here and also trying to explain. All of a sudden Snape shows up and then he gets knocked out and they wlak out to take Peter to the castle to prove Siruis is innocent. When they are on their way Lupin turn into a werewolf and they back away and leave him ith Sirius as an animagi black large dog. They fight and leave into the forest. Harrys runs to them followed by Hermonie. Ron stays with knocked out Snape and now they all notice Pettigrew has escaped. Siruis hear this and goes into the forest but gets stopeed by a lake filled with dementors flying around. Harry tries to attack but cant' and later on he realizes that acrosss the lake he himslef made a full Patronus of a stag amking all dementors back away. Then Snape takes them away with magic stetchers and they go up to the castle and wake up in the Hospital Wing. There Harry and Hermonie stand [Ron can't because he's too weak and hurt] and DUmbledore tells Hermonie to go back in time and svae more than one life. They turn the time turner three times and save Buckbeak and Siruis Black. But before that they are in the lake rescue back barely and how they go up to the Hogwarts tower and Alohamora Siruis out of there. They tell him to go along with Buck beak and he leaves. Then Harry and Hermonie have one minute to be back in the Hospital Wing with Dumbledore. They make it in time. Then the mister finds out that Siruis has escaped and so has buckbeak and he says he'll be a luaghing stock when the Daily Prophet finds out about this. They next leave to get abroad the Hogwarts express until next year.