Review:The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

12-18

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Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has already survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It's assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney's ghoulish predictions seriously?

In divination, Professor Trelawney is acting strange.FINNALY defense against the dark arts, has a good teacher. Hermione is always tired and late for something. Hermione's cat Crookshanks keeps trying to eat Scabbers. Dementors are lurking outside the castle grounds. But that's not the only changes. There's a murderer on a loose!

Nobody's who they seem to be...

This is my least favorite book so far, but it's still good. Hope you enjoy it.

After this book, if your a kid younger then, about ten, try to wait a while for the next book. I know. It's just so tempting.

Book Review: The Chamber of Secrets, by J.K Rowling

11-18

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The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself!



Harry Potter thinks this school year will be different than the last one. He hopes that he'll be able to focus on his work and his friends. Unfortunately that does not happen. WHAT does happen is that Harry has a near fatal attack from a bludger, Mr. Weasley gets sued due to a car problem, Ron's wand breaks causing chaos, and Professor Gilderoy Lockheart is discovered to be a fake. To top all that off a legendary beast is terrorizing Hogwarts. Will Harry be able defeat the monster?

Harry really needs some help, but his friends have a hard time helping him. Ron has arachnophobia, and Hermione has been petrified. But maybe, just maybe, he will be victorious.

One of the best parts is when Harry enters the moment of danger. ( of course it always is, as I explained in The Sorcerer's Stone. ) You get excited and fidgety even though you know the good guy pretty much always wins. Then you gasp in horror and amazement when you figure out that HE was the bad guy not the other one. After that surprising encounter you clap and cheer at the hero's narrow victory. Some way it always ends in the same way but is manages to still be a good book.

Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling

10-18

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Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a Cloak of Invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in ten years.

But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.

Harry's parents are dead. He is the 'slave' of his uncle Vernon, aunt Petunia, and bratty cousin Dudley. And he's about to go to a horrible school. ( In gray rags. ) But then he goes to a academy for wizards called Hogwarts. He takes delightful classes like charms. And-not-so-great-ones like potions. But all too soon he discovers a threat to his life: Someone's trying to steal the legendary sorcerer's stone! And with a powerful thing like that who knows what he might do next? This book is one of my favorites along with Percy Jackson and The Olympians and A Series of Unfortunate Events.

I like Ron because he's funny. I also think Hermione is smart. But which one? Pick a person any person...

My favorite part is when they go after the 'bad guy.' ( The part with Fluffy and the potions. Boy I would've never figured that one out.) I read it over and over again. You might too.

Each book is darker than the last so after The Prisoner of Askaban you might want to wait a while.