My sister has been telling me to get back into the world of Harry Potter. She is a huge Harry Potter fan and wants me to read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire so I can write about it and so she and I can talk about it. After a long ministry summer inRead more
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When last we left The Prisoner of Azkaban, Severus Snape had just crashed the party inside the Shrieking Shack. I was so excited to see what happened next that, when I had a few minutes before preaching at our Friday night service, I read some Harry Potter. Fortunately I’m not one of those Christians whoRead more
Chapter 18 was a really bad place to stop reading in The Prisoner of Azkaban. Sirius Black was on the scene, Lupin was explaining how everyone was connected and Snape had just revealed himself from beneath the invisibility cloak. Then chapter 18 ended and, because I ran out of time, I wasn’t able to keepRead more
I’ve reached the point in The Prisoner of Azkaban where I find it difficult to put the book down. There’s a slow roll at the beginning but once stuff starts happening at Hogwarts it happens quickly. In chapters 10-13 we learn about Sirius Black’s relationship with Harry’s father, we see Harry’s attempt to defeat theRead more
So far The Prisoner of Azkaban has followed a similar trajectory to the first two Harry Potter novels. There’s been some drama in the classrooms, Harry’s hearing strange voices and Draco Malfoy is still the worst. Things have picked up with Sirius Black allegedly making his way into Hogwarts and Harry taking a tumble offRead more
The Prisoner of Azkaban started very much like the first two Harry Potter books. Harry is back with the Dursleys and his magic again gets him into trouble. I hope one of two things happens by the end of the series: that Harry doesn’t have to go back to the Dursleys’ during summer vacation orRead more