So during my unemployment, I’ve been reading the books I’ve bought over the past few years that I never have gotten around to reading. I’ve finished off the massive Book of Basketball that I had gotten for Christmas, tore through the first two Hunger Games books, and finally started to read the Harry Potter books, all of which I bought in hardback from Amazon when the 7th book came out. I honestly don’t know how it really ends, I’ve managed to avoid spoilers.
(If you don’t want the 3rd Harry Potter book ruined for you, stop reading right now)
Last week I finished HP3, the Prisoner of Azkaban. I have the DVDs of the first three movies, but haven’t watched them in years. All I could remember was that Sirius Black was not really evil. The book was fantastic, but I did have one problem with it. Maybe it’s from having seen Back to the Future a bunch of times, but how was Harry able to send the Patronus the first time? In PoA, the plot does not play out without the Patronus coming around the lake. In BTTF, that’d be like Marty going back in time, but his parents being successful before he left because everything had been fixed already. Does this make sense? I’d understand it if everything happened, and then Harry and Hermoine went back in time and changed the result, but the result was already happening before they went back in time.
I just wanted to see what the people who may still read my blog thought. I know I’m trying to nitpick about a story that involves dragons and wizards, but I figured someone else out there may have thought the same thing.
BTW, I haven’t really read a lot of books in a long time. I know when I do get a new job, I’m still going to make time to read. I actually suggested dressing up as book characters for Halloween but was shot down mercilessly. 