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...novel depicts an evil cleric’s quest for world domination and the efforts of its three teen heroes to stop him. Taylor’s wicked paralysis-inducing beasts, called Varrigals, come at Taylor’s boy hero like the Death Eaters that attack Potter from Azkaban. And the underground caves, which set the scene for many of the battles, are reminiscent of the tunnels beneath Hogwarts, Potter’s boarding school. But though Taylor rolls out a host of fantastic and terrifying enemies, his inability to ground the reader with any sense...
...What was your experience like being a conceptual artist on “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...
...wrong-foot readers, and the previous book, Order of the Phoenix, reads like the loins-girding preamble to an all-out, good-vs.-evil, wand-on-wand wizard war. But Half-Blood Prince turns out to be something else: an elegant, fugal tapestry in the mode of Prisoner of Azkaban. "And now," as Dumbledore says to Harry, "let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." It's a tribute to Rowling's dramatic instincts that this actually sounds pretty cool in context...
...they are invited to join an estimated throng of 1,000 in the Charles Hotel courtyard, when the hotel teams up with the Harvard Coop to show the film version of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” the third title in the series that is, by now, old news to Dumbledore diehards...
Visual-effect shots in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...