Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Essay

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling, a thirteen year old wizard named Harry Potter believes that an escaped prisoner named Sirius Black was going to try to murder him. Black escaped from the most feared prison in the wizarding world, called Azkaban, and travelled to Hogwarts. To try to stop Black from harming anyone, Harry’s friends help him protect himself and others throughout their third year at Hogwarts. While the novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has many lessons throughout, one theme the book suggests is that with friends, you can do many things that you couldn’t have done on your own and you can help each other out of tricky situations. Near the end of the book, Professor Lupin, who is a werewolf,

Harry saves Hermione, Sirius Black, and himself from a swarm of dementors by casting a Patronus spell that repels the monsters.Sirius would have definitely been caught by the dementors and given the dreaded, “worse than death” Dementor’s Kiss (where the recipient of the kiss has their soul sucked out of them through their mouth). Hermione and present-time Harry would also have been harmed, just because they were in the company of Black. First, J. K. Rowling shows how present-time Harry couldn’t produce a Patronus when the dementors attacked and was therefore unable to save his friends: “A paralyzing terror filled Harry so that he couldn’t move or speak. His Patronus flickered and died.” (Rowling, 384) Later, Harry explains to Hermione about why he jumped out of hiding to conjure up a Patronus: “What did you just do?” she said fiercely. “You said you were only going to keep a lookout!” “ I just saved all our lives...,” said Harry. “... Harry, I can’t believe it... You conjured up a Patronus that drove away all those dementors! That’s very, very advanced magic.” (Rowling, 412) Without future Harry getting them out of their tricky situation, Hermione, Sirius, and Harry would have been given a punishment that has been called “worse than

Harry and Hermione had to travel back in time to save Sirius and the only way they could do that was with Hermione’s borrowed Time-Turner. First, Dumbledore gave Hermione the idea of going back in time. “What we need,” said Dumbledore slowly, and his light blue eyes moved from Harry to Hermione, “is more time.” (Rowling, 393) Then, after they go back in time with Hermione’s Time-Turner, Harry explained the plan to Hermione. “Dumbledore said -- he just told us where the window is -- the window of Flitwick's office! Where they've got Sirius locked up! We've got to fly Buckbeak up to the window and rescue Sirius! Sirius can escape on Buckbeak -- they can escape together!” (Rowling, 396) Without Hermione and her Time-Turner, Harry couldn’t have gone back in time to save Sirius. On the other hand, Hermione wouldn’t have been able to come up with a good plan to save Sirius Black without