At this point I feel these are still children’s books, although the tone is starting to shift a little. I loved the dynamic between Remus Lupin and Harry – it was the first time Harry really learned about his father from someone who knew him very well, although they seemed to talk about Sirius Black more (given his escape from Azkaban and the later revelation that he was responsible for Harry’s parents death). Whilst reading I always looked forward to their next Patronus lesson as I knew it’d be very emotionally written (and as an aside, I always found it interesting that Harry was more like Lupin than like his Godfather, Sirius). And what a surprise ending! It turns out that you can’t even count on the main villain (who had been portrayed as the main villain throughout the whole book) being the main villain! I would’ve never expected Scabbers.
While not my favourite book of the series, The Prisoner of Azkaban is probably my favourite film. Ah, I only lasted two-and-a-bit books before I mentioned the films. I thought I’d do better than that! The plot was slightly reworked to make it work better on screen, and I thought the revelation and battle scenes in the Shrieking Shack were very well done, and the Time Turner shenanigans were better implemented.
