On year 1999 J.K.Rowling published her 3rd Harry Potter book ”Prisoner of Azkaban”. This fantasy story was for example the Winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year on the same year it was published. Harry Potter is unusual teenager boy living in England with his annoying Uncle-Vernon and his family. Harry is a wizard, studying in Hogwarts magic school. Also Harry’s best friends, two other main characters, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are in Hogwarts. Ron is an emphatic and positive boy from nice wizard family. Hermione is very intelligent and talented in magic, even her parents are not wizards. These three seems to be an ordinary real life teenagers, just with ability to do magic.
Prisoner of Azkaban tells a great story of Harry’s 3rd year in Hogwarts magic school. Harry is used to be in troubles in every year and this one wont give exception. Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, convicted from killing many peoples, has escaped from highly-secured prison, Azkaban, and his after Harry. Even Hogwarts can’t protect Harry from Sirius, but in the end of the book, circumstances changes and new sides from many people are revealed. Harry, Ron and Hermione gots their hands on many situations and cases, for instance in time travelling and attack by dementors.
The narrator of the story is not Harry himself, it’s unknow but all the time going with Harry. Main themes is of course magic, fantasy and entertainment to the readers. Anyone can read this book, but the main target group is young people. Potter book series are also made for it’s fans, because it has lots of them who’s all the time waiting for new book. Harry Potter continued in year 2000 with the 4th book and ended 2007 when J.K.Rowling published 7th and last Harry Potter book ”Deadly Hallows”.
I enjoyed the whole book but the most from the part where Harry ja Hermione was time travelling, helping themselves to survive from challenging situations. It was so exciting, unreal and it was written good. I recommend this book for everyone who likes fantasy and enjoys spending time with books. The language is quite normal British english, but it includes many unusual words. Thats why it’s good to know the idea before reading it. Harry Potter stories are usually quite longs, so maybe this is not the first book to read in english. For me it wasn’t that hard, because I knew the story, most of the terms and I didn’t got bored while reading.
Henri,
ENA5.3