Boekverslag: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Genre: terror (griezel) but it`s also a bit adventure Theme: Witchcraft, it`s pretty obvious the theme is witchcraft, because the whole book is about witchcraft. Harry Pooter, who goes to Hoggwarts(school) and the classes like defence of the dark arts are all magical subjects. Where and when (time and place): The book starts at the Dursley`s house, Privet Drive4. The rest of the stories plays at Hoggwarts, school for witchcraft. You can`t place the book in a partivular timr, because it`s a fantasyworld, but if you look how the humanworld ( in the book called muggle world) is described in the book it probably plays in this time. Description maincharactar: Harry Potter is a boy of my age (14). He has magical powers and goes to Hoggwarts (school for witchcraft and wizzardy). He has a scar on his forehead. He got it when Voldemort killed his parents, which is also the reason why he is so famous in the wizzard world. Because Voldemort is the a very smart, though evil wizzard and Harry survived his attack, when he was a little boy. He has 2 best friends of his age, which are Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. And then he has another good friend, Hagrid he is the gamekeeper at hoogwarts, now teacher: Care for Magical Creatures. His worst enemy is Malfoy, they don`t like eachother at all. He plays quidditch very good, he`s also in the house team. Where he is also confronted with Malfoy. Explanation of the title: The book is called Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because the maincharctar is Harry Potter. And Sirius Black was a good friend of Harry Potter`s father. He`s the prisoner of azkaban, everyone is searching for him because he is escaped. Summary: Harry Potter hates the summer holidays, becaus he has to spent them with his mugglefamily the Dursleys. When he goes to breakfast one morning. Mr dursley tells him his aunt Marge is coming. Bad news for Harry, because they hate eachother. When Marge made fun of him again, Harry can`t control himself, he puts a spel on Marge (he`s not allowed to use magic out school) and runs outside. He is rescued bij the Night Bus. This bus brings him to the wizzard world. There he meets Cornelius Fudge, the minister of magic. He tells Harry he is not going to be expelled. And Harry can spent the rest of his holiday in Diagon Alley. There he meets his friends and their families. They go together to Hoggwarts. At school, the dementors guard the school, because Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban. But everytime Harry gets near a dementor he faints, because he hears his mother scream when she died. At the first of Hagrid`s lessons Malfoy gets injured by an animal and the animal has to be executed. Hermione is taking all classes and is in 2 places at the time. Garry and Ron wonder how she does that. All over the term they`re arguing. Everybody goes to Hoggsmeade in the weekend, but Harry is not allowed to go, because he hasn`t got permission from his uncle. He plays a lot of quidditch. And his team wins the House cup, for the first time in the last years!!! At the end of the term Harry, Ron and Hermione discover a secret room, and Ron has been taken into it by a giant black dog. Harry and Hermione go after him, and the dog turns out to be Sirius Black, who?s an animagi (people who can turn into animals). With a little help of professor Lupin (teacher of the defence of the dark art lessons) , the real murderer turns out to be the pet of Ron, who?s also an animagi. Peter Pettigrew faked his own death, so Sirius Black got caught. But because everybody?s after Sirius Black, he escapes. Everybody wants to capture Sirius, but then professor Dumbledore (headmaster) gives Hermione and Harry a time traveller (the one which Hermione also used for her full scedule of subjects). They travel back in time and save sirius and the animal who injured Malfoy. They escape together. At the Hogwarts Express Harry gets a letter from Sirius, and he tells him that he is his godfather. Harry is very happy, also because Sirius gave him a permissionform for Hogsmeade. Opinion: I think it is a great book, I also read the first two books of the Harry Potter serie. At first I thought: it`s about magic and witchcraft. A real children book. But once I read it it turned out to be great!!!! I really recommend this book to everyone. It`s just great!!!! The book has a lot of pages, but I can tell you it`s worth reading. I`m planning to read the next book of the serie too. It`s like you go through the adventure instead of Harry. Like when he goes to the Dursleys and he really doesn`t want to go. You can sort of feel what he feels. Like you have to do something and you don`t want to. But you have to do it. About the Author: Her first name is Joanne. She is born in Chipping Sodbury. She grew op in Chapstow. She studied at the Exeter Universety, she studied French. She worked for a while as secretary. Then she travelled to Portugal to teach. Her husband wants a divorce and she is fired. In 1993 she moves back to Edinburgh. With her just born daughter she lives in a flat. Which has no heating. To escape from the cold she started to write and she became a very famous writer. She writes from 3 till 11 hours a day.Depending on her inspiration. She often writes in a cafe. The books are an immediate success. With her books she wins a lot of prices. For this book she is winner of the 1999 Whitbread Children`s Book of the Year.