martedì 28 gennaio 2014

Joanne Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

My favourite part in this episode of the Harry Potter Series is when Harry and Hermione after Dumbledore’s advice decide to use the Time-Turner, a device used for short-term time travels, to travel back in time. This gives them the chance to save Buckbeak from execution and to rescue Sirius Black from the Dementors’ kiss.

This section of the book contains more than the usual narration. Here the rules of time travelling come into play, as Hermione says, and  from this springs an improved  excitement, something more unthinkable than the magic world itself.

The two protagonists know very well they cannot be seen by anyone, otherwise they would break a temporal law. Hence, the young  wizards get through the “impossible” and succeed.

Despite the author’s brilliant trick, some doubts remain in my mind about a similar time travel. Harry and Hermione never return “forward” at their proper time, so it means that an endless loop has been triggered, in which every “Harry-and-Hermione” travel back in the past.
Furthermore, when Sirius and Harry were saved for the first time by what Harry thought to be his father’s Patronus, it means that “ another Harry”, no more mentioned in other episodes of the novel, had already travelled back from the future and should rescue the present Buckbeak and Sirius!

The conclusion of these two doubts of mine is that there is a “couple” of heroes in every “present” and each couple travels back to save the past present! Every couple remains in a time level which they do not belong to! But, if every couple does this, then it becomes normal and proper.

It’s exactly this whole reasoning that makes me appreciate this episode. This is why it’s not only my favourite part of the book, but also my favourite novel of the Series.

By Chiudinelli Francesco

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