jk rowling harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban

And he knew the only person who knew he was the one who actually betrayed the Potters, Sirius, would come looking for revenge, so he used that as an opportunity to fake his death and frame Sirius for betraying the Potters.

And when Harry Potter lived and Voldemort seemed to die, Pettigrew panicked because he thought Death Eaters would blame him for Voldemort’s demise and kill him. So we’re expected to believe that Harry’s parents weren’t betrayed by Sirius Black after all, they were betrayed by their other friend who also happened to secretly be an animagus, Peter Pettigrew. Even at 18, when I was much more willing to go with the flow on things, I couldn’t swallow all the complicated machinations necessary in order to make this work. There are less gaping plot holes than in the previous two books. Still, there’s the ending, where all that falls completely apart. Prisoner is also a marked improvement in terms of plotting in some ways, but not all. Otherwise he’s no better than Draco Malfoy. Otherwise he’s just an entitled douchebag. But it’s up to Rowling as a writer to force him to deal with the consequences of those actions and still come down on the side of good. Heroes have a tradition of possessing those characteristics. Harry can be reckless, impulsive, and flout authority.

This is exactly the nuance that was missing from Chamber. When he sneaks into Hogsmeade with Ron, Harry is forced to wrestle with questions of what it means to put himself in potential danger when so many people have risked their necks to keep him safe (not to mention that his parents died to keep him alive in the first place). He’s suspicious and unsure why everyone is letting him get away with it, even though he didn’t really mean for it to happen (which really only exacerbates how utterly ridiculous the whole Dobby situation in Chamber was). When he doesn’t get in trouble for blowing up his Aunt Marge, he doesn’t celebrate. Harry still has that reckless disregard for the rules I had so much trouble with in Chamber of Secrets, but here he’s forced to struggle with it as a character flaw. Oddly enough, 15 years later things went full circle when I reread the book. Now it’s been years since the last time I read Prisoner or saw the movie. But then Cuarón’s incredible movie version came out, and I was spellbound. You see, when I first read Prisoner fifteen years ago I didn’t really like it at all. It’s a rollercoaster, really, and it all comes down to the ending of the book and the terrific movie adaptation by Alfonso Cuarón. I’ve had a curious relationship with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Jk rowling harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban