READING LOG - FIVE

READING LOG FIVE

NOVEL

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

The Prisoner of Azkaban is a novel by J.K.Rowling.The book follows Harry Potter, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies. Along the investigation, he discovered what his parents were like at school.

I chose this novel because of the theme of memories and past because Harry is growing as a person and come upon some interesting fact he never knew about what his parents were like. The main theme’s in this book are memories of the past and family.

One of my favourite scenes is in chapter ten when Harry is in the hospital wing for the weekend after his encounter on the quitch field with a dementor. In the chapter, he is stressing about the Grim and then they come to the topic of dementors.” Everyone said the dementors were horrible, but no one else collapsed every time they went near one ….. No one heard echoes in their head of their dying parents. For Harry knew who that screaming voice belonged to now. He had heard her words, heard them over and over again the night hours in the hospital wing while he lay awake, staring at the strip of moonlight on the ceiling. When the Dementors approached him, he heard the last moments of his mother's life, her attempts to protect him, Harry, from Lord Voldemort, and Voldemort's laughter before he murdered her …..”  I like this scene because I make you feel all different emotions like worry and the need to continue reading. Harry is realising that the screaming voice is his mother lily but you're also realising that Harry is getting haunted by the memories that have inhabited in self in his mind playing on repeat. I also give you more information about what effects the dementors have on Harry and that they are bringing up memories of Harry's past that he didn’t remember.

One of my other favourite scenes in the book was in chapter eleven when Harry is looking at photos of his parents and their friends when he comes upon the picture of their wedding day
“There was his father waving up at him, beaming, the untidy black hair  Harry had inherited standing up in all directions. There was his mother, alight with happiness, arm in arm with his dad. And there... That must be him. Their best man … Harry had never given him a thought before” I like this scene because it makes you think about what his parents were like and how the didn’t see  Sirius Black as a trader because they knew him so well so I make you wonder how he hid it from them.Then there was this after it “if it hadn’t known it was the same person, he would never have guessed it was black in this old photograph. His face wasn’t sunken and wavy, but handsome, full of laughter. “  I make you wonder because how could he act so happy and friendly when he was planning to kill the potter’s and why he could betray this friendship.In the scene, Harry is wondering if he was already working for Voldemort and how twelve years in Azkaban made him unrecognisable to people that knew him beforehand. It makes you wonder how Harry is feeling about Black because this man murdered his family and if it was me, I would be extremely, vengeance to the man who left me alone.

One of my other favourite scene in chapter twelve when Harry is with Lupin and getting ready to do a Patronus.Lupin lets out the Bogart and tells Harry to conjure the spell of  ‘Expecto Patronum’ to send the dementor away but fails to make a white fog cloud his senses to the ends up hearing voices to his parents and a horrid laughter.

”Lily, take Harry and go! It’s him! Go! Run! I’ll hold him off-’ the sound of someone stumbling from a room - a door bursting open- a cackle of high-pitched laughter- “

It made me anxious because you would freak out of you heard the scene of your parent's death and you feel sorry for Harry for having to suffer the pain of remembering the horrid memory. It makes me wonder how Harry can suffer the memories that the dementor brings up and how the memories of the past and affecting him when he is alone.

This book relates to because I am always trying to find out about my family and always up for a challenge ahead and making sure to always have a good memory because it can always change your perspective of things.

I relate to harry because he is forever trying to find more stuff about his family and wants to learn about.I also relate to Harry because he has lost so much in his short lifespan and yet so determined to make other better when she has so little.I think that because of Harry is a young adult he is easier to understand a compared with.