Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Analysis

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It is easy to believe you can always see the bad guys, and you’re always on the good side. You identify with the hero, sympathize with the heroine, detest the villain. But what happens when, maybe, you were wrong about everything? The third installation of J.K. Rowling’s hit series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban delivered the first plot twist my eleven year old self had ever failed to see coming. I have since read The Prisoner of Azkaban many times, and each time I gain a greater understanding of the story, the characters, and all of their deeply confusing behavior. I suppose now I know who I think the real good guys in the story are, but I also understand it is not that simple. I learned from this novel that sometimes, the bad guys are not what we think they are, sometimes the innocent are prosecuted and the guilty go free, and sometimes, you must make your own happy endings. With this newfound viewpoint, Harry Potter and the …show more content…
The twelve year long wrongful imprisonment of an innocent man, a creature’s needless execution, the overworked, underpaid, and unfairly treated house elves (servants to wizards) all come to mind. I often compared the fictional wizarding world to the world in which I live and drew parallels between them which were, frankly, depressing. Two worlds, both full of violence and corruption. It made me wonder for the first time about the people who may have been prosecuted for crimes they never committed, people who have been sentenced to die for no reason. Since the first time I read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I have personally known someone who was unfairly convicted of a crime I know she did not commit. I wonder what she would think of Sirius Black, an innocent man who paid for a crime he had no part in with the last 14 years of his life. I wonder if, given the option, she would punish the person responsible for her wrongful

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