After having Voldemort (in one form or another) trying to kill Harry Potter in the first two books,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban changes it up to make the main villain Sirius Black, an escaped "killer". SPOILER ALERT I put "killer" in quotation marks because as anyone familiar with the series knows, at the end it is revealed that Sirius isn't a villain at all and is actually looking out for Harry Potter. So upon a second or third reading it loses some of its enjoyment because there really is no threat to Harry at all for the whole book. I guess it could be argued that Scabbers/Pettigrew is the villain, but he doesn't do anything either except hide and then run away. That being said... the book is still very enjoyable. Rowling's writing and pace is a bit more relaxed and the book doesn't rush through the story quite as much as the first two did. The Quidditch scenes are a bit longer and a good amount of time is spent describing what the students are learning in their classes. Plus the Hippogriff is pretty cool. I'll give this one an A-.
And just because, here's a picture of a hippogriff that I took last week.
And just because, here's a picture of a hippogriff that I took last week.
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