27. HARRY POTTER and the PRISONER of AZKABAN

J.K. Rowling 1999

I admit this is my favorite book of the seven, because it started the relationship between Harry Potter and Sirius Black. The new defense teacher for this book is Professor Remus Lupin with his own secrets of course. This third book gave us the Knight bus, dementors, Animagus, Buckbeak, boggarts, time-turner, the Marauder's map and the Patronus.

"Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of the year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard."

"Each individually selected birch twig in the broomtail has been honed to aerodynamic perfection, giving the Firebolt unsurpassable balance and pinpoint precision. The Firebolt has an acceleration on 150 miles an hour in ten seconds and incorporates and unbreakable braking charm."

"Harry, Ron and Hermione had already had two Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, both of whom had lasted only once year. There were rumors that the job was jinxed."

"If being good at Divination means I have to pretend to see death omens in a lump of tea leaves, I'm not sure I'll be studying it much longer! That lesson was absolutely rubbish compared with my Arithmancy class!"

"The charm that repels a boggart is simple, yet it requires force of mind. You see, the thing that really finishes a boggart is laughter."

"They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything."

"What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.""

"Miss Granger," said Snape in a voice of deadly calm, "I was under the impression that I am teaching the lesson, not you. And I am telling you all to turn to page 394."He glanced around again. "All of you! Now!"

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair; they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles can feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you."

"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs Purveryors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present The Marauder's Map."

"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball."

"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

"An immensely complex spell...involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single, living soul. The information is hidden inside the chosen person, or Secret-Keeper, and is henceforth impossible to find--unless of course, the Secret-Keeper chooses to divulge it."

"You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as the brain and heart are still working. But, you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no...anything. There's no chance of recovery. You'll just--exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever...lost"

"Jordan! Are You Being Pain To Advertise Firebolts? Get On With The Commentary!"

"How extraordinarily like your father you are, Potter," Snape said suddenly, his eyes glinting."He too was extraordinarily arrogant. A small amount of talent on the Quidditch field made him think he was a cut above the rest of us too. Strutting around the place with his friends and admirers...The resemblance between you is uncanny."