Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel): Difference between revisions

** And don't forget Harry's reaction to Aunt Marge's taunts.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: {{spoiler|Remus Lupin.}} At the climax of the book when he and {{spoiler|Sirius}} confront {{spoiler|Peter with the evidence of his betrayal, Sirius asks him casually "Shall we kill him together?" and Remus simply answers "Yes, I think so."}}

* [[Book Ends]]: The first and last chapters are called "Owl Post" and "Owl Post Again", respectively.

* [[Burn the Witch]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]: Harry's over-the-summer essay is about how pointless Medieval witch burnings were, since the few times the victim was a wizard and not a poor ordinary Muggle, they could simply cast a flame-freezing charm and pretend to be suffering.

* [[Cruel Mercy]]: Harry asks {{spoiler|Sirius and Lupin}} to spare {{spoiler|Pettigrew}}'s life, but not because he feels sorry for him, he just doesn't want them to become murderers. "He can go to Azkaban. If anyone deserves that place, he does."

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This is where the series took a darker turn. Notably, this is the first book to go into detail about Lily and James Potter's deaths. Additionally the Dementors are pretty scary, and scenes like a knife-wielding Sirius Black breaking into the children's dormitory is pretty scary as well as the darker emotions and actual feelings of loss Harry feels about his family (that had not been really explored in the previous books) and of course the [[Bittersweet Ending]]. Sirius is proven innocent to Harry and Dumbledore but remains on the run alongside Buckbeak, and Lupin has to quit, while Harry worries about Trelawney's prophecy and the consequences of sparing Wormtail potentially bringing Voldemort back. Compared to the out-and-out positive victories in the first two books, it was bleaker and prepared for the gradual darkening of the remaining books, though [[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|the previous novel]] had some darker elements.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: {{spoiler|Peter Pettigrew.}}

* [[Disappointed in You]]: Lupin.

* [[Empty Shell]]: The result of the Dementor's Kiss.

* [[Everybody Lives]]: Along with ''Chamber of Secrets'', the only book in the series where no character dies (though several characters die in the [[Backstory]]).

* [[Evil Former Friend]]: {{spoiler|Peter}}, although evil is too respectful a word to describe him.

* [[Evil-Detecting Dog|Evil Detecting Cat]]: Crookshanks.

* [[Golden Mean Fallacy]]: Lupin explains that this is one of the advantages to tackling a boggart in groups. It might try and combine two peoples' fears and end up with something a lot less scary than either of them.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The purpose behind telling no one that {{spoiler|the secret keepers were switched}} was to make sure everyone went after Sirius Black. It worked.

* [[I Will Tear Your Arms Off]]: Hagrid says that if he had known Sirius' role in the Potters' death, he would have ripped him limb from limb. Hagrid is a half-giant, so a threat like this should be taken ''very'' seriously.

** Hagrid is a slightly less hairy Chewbacca?

* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The Wolfsbane Potion sort of invokes this. When a werewolf drinks it, they are able to keep their mind human when transformed.

* [[It Was a Gift]]: {{spoiler|the Firebolt and Pigwidgeon.}}