Talk:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Contents 1 watch 2 Plot Summary 3 Images 4 Voldemort 5 Wrong Illustrator 6 Confusion 7 Hermoine plot details 8 Should we mention Cho?

[edit] watch

[edit] Plot Summary

Ok, I read it. I know Azkaban is a relatively short book, but come on guys. That is not a plot summary, it is a joke. Why not just write 'well, Harry went to school again', and leave it at that? (oops, silly me, that is the sort of thing a vandal would do if he rubbed out the real plot summary and just put in something stupid) Sandpiper 00:14, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Further to my last comment, and indeed having read the equivalent pages for each book. There seems to be two schools of thought as to whether a short plot summary or a long plot summary is preferable. Some articles have one, and some have the other. I see no reason why the article should not have both. The total is still not excessively long for an article, particularly if the other incidental information is placed at the start where anyone can read it quickly. In any case, the articles do not contain very much more than the plot summaries, anyway. Accordingly, I have restored the original long summary, following on from the short one. It would appear that each article originally had long summaries, until someone removed them to separate articles. I can see why some people may prefer the short one (I think the long version here is actually too long too), but I see no reason not to have both. Sandpiper 22:45, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Thats one hell of a long plot summary, I think it is good and has had a lot of hard work to put it together but it probably shouldn't be called 'summary' as this implies a short description, which this deffinatly aint! But leave the body of text as it is. --Dan 01:56, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I've started to shorten the text a bit. I'm leaving in most of the details, but text that is already handled elsewhere like the description of Azkaban has been removed. -JohnRDaily 16:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Can't we just create another page for summery of the plot and have a far more abbreaviated version here? Evil Deep Blue 03:29, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My argument against doing that is that SparkNotes already has extensive Plot Summaries on its website (chapter by chapter in fact), and we don't need that much detail here. These are meant to be plot overviews, not entire breakdowns of each scene. This is by far one of the longest book summaries, so it needs to be pruned where possible. Cybertooth85 17:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Has JKR ever said anything about the (blatantly obvious) similarities between her Dementors and Philip Pullman's Spectres (which I think predate Dementors)? I know both have explained their respective creations as manifestations of depression, but they seem too similar, even in little details, to be merely parallel thinking?Michaelsanders 00:09, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Would it be sensible to split the plot summary up into sections, like some of the other HP novels with extrenuous plot summaries? ~~ THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 09:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Also regarding the plot summary, there appears to be a hole between the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the summary (it skips from the first appearance of the Marauder's Map to Professor Trelawney's prediction). Is a 'repair' in order? Hallpriest9 (Talk | Archive) 14:47, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Wouldn't it be proper to put the French cover on the French Wikipedia page and limit images on the English Wikipedia page to images of English versions of the books? -Phi*n!x 01:03, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:Harry Potter#Foreign language cover images. Brian Jason Drake 06:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Voldemort

"This is the only Harry Potter book so far in which Lord Voldemort has not appeared in any form." Can we take out "so far", since Voldemort is obviously going to appear in book seven? 84.70.221.48 22:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong Illustrator

The actual UK Illustrator is Cliff Wright, and not Jason Cockcroft, he done the Order of the Phoenix onwards

Why is Jason Cockcroft still showing up on the main page? When I go to edit, in the text box it says Cliff Wright, but continues to show Jason Cockcroft. Aloha princess 20:01, 29 July 2007 (UTC)aloha princess

It is in the Template, I'll go and fix it shortly. Lilac Soul ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 07:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion

I am an avid Harry Potter fan, and I don't ever recall anything about "Lee Phillips" and a "Piranha of Azkaban". Is this page just a joke? Because if it is, shouldn't this page be considered for deletion? Danny Sepley 05:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry--I don't know how I commented on the wrong page. For some reason I saw a page with the title "Lee Phillips and the Pirahna of Azkaban". And now it's disappeared. Danny Sepley 18:17, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

It redirects to here. I checked it out, and the only thing in the history was the redirect. ~~ THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 22:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, "The Dark Lord". I did not realize what was going on. Is that like a practical joke kind of page, or something else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danny sepley (talk • contribs) 18:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Most likely, someone who created a stupid page for the heck of it, so yeah, someone playing some sort of a joke. Anakinjmt 20:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hermoine plot details

In the "tensions" section I added a bit about Hermoine's stress and heavy workload, as it plays a major role in her conflict with Ron and Harry. It also supports the later plot summary reference to the Time-Turner. 23skidoo (talk) 15:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Should we mention Cho?

POA *is* the book where Harry starts to notice Cho Chang, his first girlfriend. Oughtn't we to take a note of that? or is that too minor a detail? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angelica K (talk • contribs) 01:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)