Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban uses principles of sound, cinematography and elements of Mis En Scene to immerse the audience in the dark and mysterious wizarding world. Sound is a powerful film technique, especially one such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where sound and sound effects help to shape the understanding of the wizarding world (Bordwell and Thompson, 267). Generally, there are two different types of sound, diegetic and non-diegetic. According to Film Art : An Introduction, diegetic sound is any voice, musical passage, or sound effect presented as originating from a source within the film’s world, non-diegetic sound, is sounds such as mood music or a narrator’s commentary, represented as coming from…

Read Around The Genre: Wizards and Witches Rowling, J.k, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban -Fiction Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is about Harry Potter's adventure on finding out who Sirius Black really is. He takes on this adventurous journey with his friends Hermione Granger a muggle/wizard and Ron Weasley a red haired troublemaker. In this adventure book Harry is going into his 3rd year at Hogwarts. (Wish I could have a million owls telling me I’m expected to go to…

SIRIUS BLACK: A VENGEFUL VICTIM OR A FATHER FIGURE? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a best-selling children’s book which has been adapted into a film with the same title. The story gives a further look into Harry’s past. One of the key characters in it is Sirius Black, Harry’s godfather who was imprisoned for twelve years in Azkaban before he escaped. He was a close friend of the Potters, who went to a hideout because they were being hunted by Voldemort. He was thought to be their…

Throughout Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, relationships between Harry, Ron and Hermione are explored. While throughout all seven of the Harry Potter books the relationships between Harry, Ron, and Hermione grow stronger, the students also have bonds that grow between their professors, particularly between Harry and his professors. While Harry encounters many professors throughout his time at Hogwarts, in Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry’s bond between Dumbledore, Remus Lupin and Severus…

person responds to it reveals the depth of his or her moral character. In novels like Everlost by Neal Shusterman and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling, the authors use fear to illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of their characters. The approach that characters like Allie, Harry, and Mary take toward their fears demonstrates to the reader what they value and their true nature. Allie from Everlost portrays herself as a fearless girl with nerves of steel. She does not so…

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry is met with multiple struggles when it comes to going back to school at Hogwarts (one being a persistent house elf named Dobby). He does end up going back, despite the warnings from Dobby. When he arrives he and classmates find that the chamber of secrets, which was rumored to be a myth, has been reopened and that the heir of the man who created had set a monster free in the school. Harry and his friends begin working towards closing the chamber,…

to obtain what he wanted but as long as he got what he wanted in the end he would be happy. Voldemort did not care about what happened to his servants as long his quest for power was met. Voldemort loved his servants in a way, but that love was selfish. He only used them to get what he wanted. Voldemort told Harry in the first book that “there is no good or evil, only power and those too weak to seek it” (Rowling 291). All Voldemort cared about was getting what he wanted and maintaining his…

her pale, trembling hands. She grit her teeth together hard, trying to end the torrent of tears that had been streaming down her face for what had to have been hours. Hogwarts was horribly quiet, as news of Hermione Granger 's death spread throughout the school. Laying on the floor at her feet was the diary. that infernal thing that lead to all of this. It was her fault, all of it. If only she hadn 't been so stupid as to fall under its spell. She had already thrown it, stomped on it, screamed…

the media, and is an important person to know about. Shakespeare has a huge influence on today’s major media, like the Harry Potter series. Shakespeare’s influence has made several contributions to today’s society, one of these contributions includes a direct use of Shakespeare's work in Harry Potter The Shakespeare reference appeared in the third book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The allusion is the song sung by the three witches in Shakespeare’s play…

Growing up, Harry Potter was a story that was ever present in the lives of my family. My older brother and sister are eight and ten years older, and they quickly became fascinated by this world. My dad would take them to the midnight book openings and they would bring home three copies of the new book. My siblings become enthralled with this world, and I so badly wanted to know and share in their passion. The Prisoner of Azkaban was the first Harry Potter book that I read by myself, and it…