dementors

I finished the roller coaster that is Prisoner of Azkaban. The ending is just CRAZY. You go from being afraid of Sirius and loving Lupin to hating them both. Then loving them and hating Ron's poor rat Scabbers aka. Peter Pettigrew. And just when you think thing are going to go well because Snape's unconscious and Harry's going to live somewhere other than the Dursley's, the moon comes out and Lupin changes and the dementors come and get rid of every single hope that they have. And I love this book, I think it was the first Harry Potter book I actually read more than once. I didn't used to be a fan of rereading books, but this one I love.

Dementors are terrible creatures. Can you just imagine the feeling they would inspire in you? I was talking with my friend's nine-year-old sister because she wanted to watch the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. A second later she decided that she didn't want to because it was too scary, she'd like to watch Chamber of Secrets instead. I remember when I first read both books, my mom read them aloud to me and I made her skip all of the snake parts in the Chamber of Secrets, and I remember being weirded out towards then end of Prisoner of Azkaban. But my friend's little sister said she was scared the most by the dementors when the Hogwarts Express stops in the beginning. It was the thought of these creatures that scared her the most, not big snakes and spiders with gigantic pincers (which I know her sister hates the most). It just struck me as strange that she would pick to be scared of the dementors over the basalisk and Aragog.

So, my text task is to follow Harry and company through the triwizard tournament. I'm behind Jacob by a long ways. Hopefully I can catch up to him.