Harry Potter is continuing his audio journey out loud as I read these books to Nick out loud…Azkaban used to be my favorite installment of Harry (though with the release of the last book I think I had to replace it.) My favorite part of this book has always been the incredibly long scene at the end told over several chapters which starts with Buckbeak’s “execution” and moves on through the meeting of Sirius Black in the Shrieking Shack, the reveal of Peter Pettigrew as Ron’s pet rat Scabbers, the werewolf transformation, the travelling back in time, right up to the rescue.
What I found the most delightful was how seamless the travelling through time was. JK Rowling is always considered to be a mediocre writer but one must admit how delightful her ideas turn out (well of course, she’s made millions…billions yet?) Her version of time travel is the first one I’ve seen/read that has made any sense! When most write about time travel they forget about the element that in order for time travel to be possible that would mean that time would have to be cyclical, and that before the future selves decided to travel back in time, they would have appeared in the past that they had travelled to before they even chose to leave. (Wow it’s difficult to put into words how it makes sense but of course they would have to have already appeared in the past to successfully have changed it!) JK thankfully made everything come together wit her version of time travel in that Buckbeak was already saved before they even decided to rescue him seeing as their future selves were already in the past rescuing before their past selves knew to go back in the future! It’s a crazy mindbending paradoxical conundrum, but I’m so happy it all works out (and it even works so well in the movie, where Hermione throws the rock, and howls to save Harry’s life….watch the movie if you don’t remember. I love how everything falls into place. I also hate the werewolf design in the damn movie…Snape clearly states in the first book that the main difference between a wolf and a werewolf is the repellant to wolfsbane…not a visial difference. Sigh…monkey wolf.)
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