This is the third book in the Harry Potter series, as with my other blogs so far for Harry Potter, if you have not read the series and do not enjoy SPOILERS then don’t read this blog. I have written these blogs more for people who have read the series and love them or people who will never read them (what a sad existence).
This is my absolute favorite book in the series. There is just something special about the new found relationship between Harry and Sirius. I love that he has someone in his life that doesn’t want to be around him because he’s the famous Harry Potter, the boy who lived. It’s more of a family love; Sirius loves him like he would love a nephew. It’s hard for me to put into words exactly why I love this relationship so much, but if I had to sum it up, it would be in the last couple of pages. Harry, Ron and Hermione are on their way to King’s Cross from Hogwarts and Harry receives an owl. When he opens it up, it’s a letter from Sirius with an extra letter giving him permission to go to Hogsmeade next term. When I finished the book for the first time, I remember running into the living room of our apartment at the time and squealing to Simon how wonderful the book was and how much I loved Sirius Black. Memories…
Sirius Black is my all time favorite Harry Potter character (If I can’t pick Harry himself). I love that he is very much the dark wizard that is after Harry during this entire book. This is the only book of the series that Voldemort doesn’t make a physical appearance and therefore Sirius is the scapegoat for the bad-guy of this book. The reason I love Sirius is that after 13 years of prison and quite frankly, hell. He still wants to get to know Harry. The example of this is that he immediately invites Harry to live with him, which of course makes the audience’s heart happy. Knowing how happy it makes Harry is a great feeling, “Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Harry’s stomach.” The poor kid had never experienced happiness in this way that he couldn’t even think of how to describe it. I love it!
Another character that must be mentioned is the headmaster. Dumbledore is not all knowing, but he sure knows a lot. An enjoyable factor for me is that he knew exactly what was going on the entire time Hermione and Harry were going back in time to save Buckbeak and Sirius, but had no idea that Sirius, James Potter, and Peter Pettigrew had turned themselves into Animagus’ when they were under his supervision at Hogwarts. Within the first three books, it just doesn’t seem like much get’s by him. He always seemed to know when things were going on with any of the given characters. Of course the biggest example of this in Prisoner of Azkaban is mentioned above when he tells Hermione to turn back time and save 2 innocent lives.
I’ll end with this thought. The first time I read this series, I sat on the edge of my seat. Literally I was scared to death that Harry was going to get caught in one of his many rule breaking adventures, but I still kept reading. It’s funny how I am definitely not usually up for adventures, but I am so into the many adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione. Harry gets into so much trouble it’s hard to even believe he gets away with it all, but he does. Professor Snape of course is very hard on Harry. He is overly harsh with him in class, he’s so stern with him when he meets him in hallways and anywhere Harry’s not supposed to be. Although I am not a Snape fan, I almost have to agree with Snape as an adult that follows the rules. Harry is always out of bounds, going in areas he’s not allowed, breaking the rules or just an overall disregard for authority. But I still love Harry like he’s my BFF.
Well that’s it literary friends. I hope you enjoyed! Keep Reading my friends!
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