Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

This is the book I read. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is about Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This supposedly normal year for Harry took a turn in the wrong direction because a murderer named Sirius Black broke out of the once said inescapable wizarding jail called Azkaban. Plus, on the way to Hogwarts, as Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, and the new Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Lupin (who was fast asleep) were in the train compartment on the Hogwarts Express, something dark and mysterious opened the compartment door and Harry felt as though the life was being sucked right out of him, and when he woke up from that brief "session", he was being watched, lanterns shining all around him, and so throughout the school year, Professor Lupin taught Harry to produce a Patronus (the one spell that can stop dementors). The spell takes a lot of concentration on the happiest thought the witch/wizard could think of to produce a whisp that flies straight at the dementor (dementors suck out all of the happy thoughts from you and makes you think of all bad thoughts). Anyway, back to the school year. The school gets a little less safe because Sirius somehow got the password that would grant access to the Griffyndor common room that was guarded by a fat lady in a portrait. Ron woke up to see the silhouette of a man with a knife in the common room, and when everybody was up, they discovered someone had torn through the portrait that the fat lady was occupying. Cool stuff happened to Harry, too. He received a Firebolt (the most modern Quidditch broom) from a mysterious person, but it was confiscated so they could check for jinxes, and it was fine. He also received the Marauder's Map (a map that lets the user see everybody on the Hogwarts school grounds) from Fred and George Weasley ( Ron's older identical twin brothers). One night, while Harry, Ron , and Hermione were walking home from Hagrid's hut, Ron's mouse Scabbers broke free from his grasp trying to run away from Hermione's cat, Crookshanks,  a big black dog appeared out of nowhere and dragged off by the arm. As Ron tried to escape the grasp of the dog by latching his leg to a root of the Whomping Willow (a huge tree that tries to crush anyone who gets near), but it just broke, so Harry and Hermione went to save him. They ended up chasing the dog down a dark tunnel into a dark windowless house, which was the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. When Harry and Hermione went up the staircase in the Shack, they found Ron  on the florr and a filthy man (Sirius Black, who was also the black dog) in the back of the room. Sirius wasn't there to hurt the three of them, but Scabbers. Scabbers was the one who revealed the whereabouts of Harry's parents to Voldemort (Scabbers is really Wormtail, who was friends with Harry's father and was an animagus, a witch/wizard that could transform into an animal). In the end, Harry and Hermione help Sirius escape from being captured by the Ministry of  Magic and have the dementor's kiss performed on him (the dementor's kiss sucks the soul out of the victim) on Buckbeak the griffin, who was going to be killed for attacking Draco Malfoy. And nobody knows or suspects what happened. This book has 435 pages.

 By: 

John Mixner