Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 17: Cat, Rat and Dog

[June Ewing]

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omegafold:
One thing does disappoint me about Harry. He never seems to evolve,
he just grows up slowly and aside from trite incursions, he lacks
any true planning genius and ends up needing rescue from friends.
It's getting repetitive and predictable.

I wish the writer would really dig deep here, if I were writing
things, at this point I would have written it so Harry really
thinks hard to plan ahead, something a more mature Harry would.
He would have cast spells of some kind before being detained by
the hand of evil to circumvent this type of thing rather than
risk lives. He would have maybe dug deep into the roots of magic
to actually make a device as others have made, like the invisible
cloak. <snip>

Well just my thoughts. I'd hate to see him act like a little boy
in every movie never really growing up to do something truly
spectacular.


June:
This was only the 3rd book and he was only 13. Harry doesn't invent
things but that is not what he is supposed to do. The books weren't
Harry the inventor. He is supposed to grow up with enough strength
and knowledge to face the most evil and dangerous wizard who ever
lived and the books are also about friendship. When you have read
the books to the end (or watched all the movies) you will
understand. He does grow and evolve, but that is all I am going to
say because I don't want to give anything away.