Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, By J. K.

More Than Meets the Eye In the third installment of the world beloved Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling saturates the book’s pages with what I believe is the central theme of the novel. During the beginning of the novel, Harry is once again presented with a plethora of new information that he accepts at face value. There are two scenes in the novel where Rowling truly stresses her them. In the story, Harry learns of his father’s past friends and of vicious magical creatures. Harry quickly discovers that these things share a common ground: both are not what they are presumed to be. It can be understood that the central theme Rowling is attempting to present through the two scenes in Harry Potter and

During the chapter The Servant of Lord Voldemort, Harry discovers that there is more to the story of his father’s friends than even his father knew. James Potter developed three close friendships during his time at Hogwarts. His friends were Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black otherwise known as Moony, Wormtail, and Padfoot for their animagus identities. James had such a special bond with his fellow students that they even developed Marauder’s Map together, a secret map that allowed the gang of friends to track the whereabouts of others in the Hogwarts castle, and he named Sirius to be Harry’s godfather. What James did not know is that one day one of these friends would play a role in his and Lily Potter’s deaths. Through chapter nineteen, Harry learns the truth behind his father’s friendships. In this chapter, he learns of the friends’ alliance and their animagus forms. Before, Harry only believed his father was an ordinary wizard when he was an animagus, nicknamed Prongs, who transformed into a white stag. This acquisition of knowledge in the chapter supports the theme Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban stresses because in this section of the scene Harry understands that there was more to James Potter than he originally believed there to be. Later in the chapter, Harry learns that there was more to the story behind James’s friend Peter Pettigrew than anyone knew. Pettigrew was asked by James to be he and Lily’s “Secret Keeper” to help them stay hidden from Lord Voldemort (Rowling 368). What no one knew was that Peter was truly working for the Dark Lord. During the time leading up to their deaths, Peter Pettigrew released information on James’s and Lily’s whereabouts to Lord Voldemort. Thus, Peter aided in the young wizards tragic ending. This scene further supports Rowling’s theme that not everything is what it seems, or that there is