By Antonio Munar Frau, 2º
Bachillerato EFL
This is the third book of the Harry
Potter saga. Harry Potter is spending his holidays with the Dursleys and they
receive the visit of Aunt Marge. She starts insulting his parents, so Harry
makes a spell, breaking the law against practicing magic outside Howarts. He
knows he is in trouble, but when he meets the
Minister of magic, he doesn’t say anything to Harry, so Harry starts suspecting
there’s something strange and he finally discovers it: Sirius Black, a
dangerous wizard has escaped from Azkaban, the magic prison where it’s
impossible to escape from. This wizard is looking for Harry to kill him. The
Ministry of Magic has ordered the dementhors to guard the school and all the
magic places, in order to catch Sirius Black and protect the Wizards and witches.
But these creatures appear around Harry many times and they make him feel awful
and upset, so much that he faints.
In the third year of School, students
are allowed to visit Hogsmade, a village full of little shops of all kind of
objects and curiosities. But the Dursley didn’t sign the authorization, so
Harry can’t go there. Ron’s brothers find him a map of the passages that
conduct directly to Hogsmade, and Harry uses it to visit the village, where he
discovers that Sirius is his godfather and that it was he was who betrayed his
parents. However, when Harry, Ron and Hermione investigate Sirius they
discover...
Secrets
are the main theme of this story. Harry’s life is surrounded by secrets.
Because of his age, his professors and fiends don’t say anything to him.
Sometimes hiding a secret is worse than telling it. Harry, Ron and Hermione
find out that things aren’t what they seem. Thanks to them, Sirius Black can
escape from death and many things are clarified. To tell or not to tell
something, even a small detail, can change a situation completely. For example,
if Harry and his friends hadn’t gone to the Shrieking Shack, their professors
wouldn’t have told them the truth and Pettigrew wouldn’t have been punished.
There can be lots of misunderstandings because of not telling something to a
fiend; maybe we think everything is clear and we don’t have to explain anything
because it’s obvious, but it isn’t. We have to keep alert about the secrets we
hide and the things we tell and be aware of the consequences of our decisions.
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