Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

school & library binding, 448 pages

Published Oct. 1, 2001 by Turtleback Books.

ISBN:
9780613371063

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3 stars (1 review)

Harry Potter #3

For Harry Potter, it’s the start of another far-from-ordinary year at Hogwarts when the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and comes to an abrupt halt in front of him.

It turns out that Sirius Black, mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, has escaped – and they say he is coming after Harry.

In his first Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry’s tea leaves.

And perhaps most frightening of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds with their soul-sucking kiss – in search of fresh victims.

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[1]: www.jkrowling.com/book/harry-potter-prisoner-azkaban/

59 editions

Sometimes it makes no sense.

3 stars

Snape is the one continuing element of these books that I always severely question, particularly after having worked as a teacher for a number of years.

It's one thing to hold grudges against people (Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, in this instance) for things they've done, but it's an entire other thing when your teenage grudge continues to plague your life and your profession (and, as a result, the professionalism that you should be showing to students). And this is something that I can, from experience, discuss; in the international school circuit, you often work with the children of your colleagues (and while it's preferable that you like them, it sometimes happens that you don't). If I let my feelings for my students' parents cloud my judgement, I would be unprofessional; I'd hope that my boss would talk to me about this and set me straight (or straight up fire …