Word: azkaban
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling. The third installment of this phenomenally popular series takes its now teenage hero through another year of his education in the ways of wizardry. Once again, Harry must face a mortal threat, but not before he and his friends get into lively boarding-school scrapes. Children can't get enough of Harry, and neither can their parents...
...Scottish Rowling has now written three books, The Chamber of Secrets and The Prisoner of Azkaban in addition to her first, which are currently the top three books on The New York Times Bestseller List. The Sorcerer's Stone has been on that list for the past 50 weeks...
Since it was released on Oct. 5, the Barnes and Noble branch has sold 339 copies of The Sorcerer's Stone in paperback. 284 copies of the hardcover Prisoner of Azkaban sold in the same period...
...first book had lots of magic and crazy creatures, but by the third book...an adult could really read into it; there were deeper themes and social commentary. The Prisoner of Azkaban gets away from the 'fluffy fluffy' cool magical stuff, and becomes more like literature. There's a lot of allegory underneath...
Since her characters grow a year older in each book, Rowling says that certain unavoidable changes are in store for them and the readers. A hint of what's ahead appears in The Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry notices Cho Chang, the only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that...