Book Club: Harry Potter Book #3 - Saturday June 9 at noon MT

[Butterfly]

Welcome to getDare Book Club!!!!

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When: Saturday June 9 at 12:00 noon MT
Where: The Lounge Chat Room

How this will work

Before the event, read the book!
Feel free to bring your own discussion questions, or come join us at the event and get involved in the conversation answer the questions provided.
After the event, I will move this thread to The Lounge forum so that anybody who could not join us, have the opportunity to participate in the discussion.


About Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
What's a young wizard to do when he must spend the summer with distasteful relatives and refrain from practicing magic? Thirteen-year-old Harry Potter puts up with this situation until Aunt Marge so annoys him that he violates a code of ethics by using his magic on her. Instead of being punished, Harry is allowed to finish out his holiday at the Leaky Cauldron Inn, a thoroughly enjoyable experience. But as Harry's third year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry begins, things turn serious when Sirius Black, the man who killed Harry's parents and has it in for Harry, too, escapes from Azkaban Prison. While trying to find out why Sirius murdered his parents, the young hero learns more about his own past and actually "hears" the end of his mothers life. In this third book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Hangs out with his friends Ron and Hermione, meets the "Hippogriffs" and "Dementors," and continues to make readers care very much about his fate.

[naked_lego]

If the book hasn't gotten packed away and it is still in my house then I will see how far I can get. I haven't read them but always wanted too. These Book Club events seem really cool. Might have to actually make time for more reading :)

[Butterfly]

Hoping to see some of you in the Lounge in a few hours for this event!!!!

[naked_lego]

I couldn't make it. I've been busy busy busy. Which means I also haven't been able to read much. The book has been fantastic so far! It really gets into the events and the aunt I REALLY don't like. She was mean in the movies but just cruel in the book. So happy this was the book of choice and I can't want to read more of them :D

[nina@]

Sorry I couldn't be in the discussion

Though I had read this book long ago (like more than a decade ago) I do remember I found this book to be one of the better books in the series.. The major attraction as far as I can remember was knowing about harry's parents past, their friends and the marauder's map which gave us all the phrase "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good", the secret passages in Hogwarts, the knight bus, the concept of animagi, werewolves, time turner, hagrid teaching and of course the hippogriff.. I feel this book was definitely a leap in detailing the background story and introducing new magical concepts..

my questions for fellow readers are the following

1) In the book, you have to gain the trust of the hippogriff before riding it and then it is loyal to you for life, does the concept give insights into trust building in human relationships (D/s) as well?

2) The book introduced many new concepts of the wizarding world, some of which I have listed above. Which one did you find the most intriguing? why?

3) Do you think Trelawney (not her grandmother) was as incompetent as portrayed? If not, support your answer

4) Is such a thing as the time turner really possible in reality?

5) Lupin vs Snape? Who is better and why

6) Can you relate the concept of dementors to any real life phenomenon or disorders (like depression etc)?

[Ferbite]

Maybe we can discuss this book in the near future? :)