Harry Potter Prisoner Of Azkaban Analysis

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, there are a few characters that cannot quite take care of themselves. These characters then must be protected by others. This point is superbly exemplified by the actions towards the protection of Buckbeak the hippogriff by Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. He was wrongly accused and sentenced to death because of misunderstandings. In the introduction scene of Buckbeak, most students show immediate fear of the creature. Hagrid, of course, is very excited and affectionate towards him and attempts to alleviate the concerns the students have towards safety. The distance between all characters show how weary everyone is of the bird/horse. The scene occasionally cuts to wide shots showing the students

Throughout their lives, as long as they were just living at home, supposedly normal, they were perfectly fine and nobody cared that they were mentally ill. They are accepted, even if they have their quirks. Once spending any time in an institution for the mentally ill, however, things are different. People talk, saying there must be some dark reason they were put in there. There is literally absolutely no difference in these people except for the fact that they were in an institution. Therefore they get labeled as harmful or problematic. The same happened with Buckbeak. There was nothing at all against him as he just existed, but once he got involved even the smallest bit with the law, he was labelled “dangerous” and a “threat to society”, despite doing nothing wrong, nothing but protecting himself from a perceived threat. One argument against him, one scratch on a boy from a family of powerful, albeit slightly evil, wizards high up in the government, and Buckbeak is sentenced to die. And of course there is no way anyone would be able to argue with them. Hagrid himself is an outsider, half human and half giant, he is an anomaly, and people tend not to take him seriously because of prejudices against beings that are not human, treating them as monsters. Therefore, the corrupted Ministry would never take his side over the side of the powerful family with much political