Stephen Hayes reviewed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #3)
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4 stars
Re-reading this for the third time, but after an interval of twenty years, I discovered how much I had forgotten of the story. I remembered a few things, that had happened, but not how they had happened. And I rather surprised myself when I realised that the scenes I most enjoyed reading were the interhouse Quidditch matches.
But while I gave the first two books five stars, I only give this one four. The main reason for that was that I thought the denouement in the Shrieking Shack was the weakest scene in the book. In it the true villains are revealed, but it is too drawn out, and as one misunderstanding follows another it gets tiresome, as Expelliamus spells are tossed back and forth and wands are exchanged with monotonous regularity. On this reading I kept falling asleep.