by J.K. (Joanne) Rowling
(7/7/2001)
S.M.E. Barry
All right, first off, I must say that every book in this series so far manages somehow to surpass the one before it. I don't know what lovely Fate fairy decided to whisper the idea for Harry into JK's ear, but I definitely thank it. I got both 'Chamber of Secrets' and 'Prisoner of Azkaban' on Christmas morning, and, after barricading myself in my room with some Christmas pudding and my Eiffel 65 CD, read them both that day. I loved Professor Lupin; there was something very likeable and human about him. I still say Snape should have been eaten by Aragog the Spider, but hey, as Ron says, you can't have everything in life. =) Oh, and a cool side note: Harry Potter got me into USA Today. I wrote a fan fiction back in January, and a Elizabeth Weise from the Technology and Life section read it and liked it so much that she interviewed me for an article on fan written Harry Potter stories. The world is a strange and wonderful place, and if, as my mother says, there is indeed such a thing as karma, then JK Rowling has just shot up the good side of it by about four million points.