Talk:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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It looks like 207.172.11.147 is behind censorware :) Well spotted with the typo though. -- Jim Regan 23:24 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

That's the strangest web-filtering I've ever seen. I wonder how someone with that product in their way could ever make any sense of, say, a news site.

A question for you, Jim, or anyone else. We've got the IMDB link on the page, but there isn't a link to the two trailers. If those are online, is there any reason not to link to them in the main article? -- Dagfinn_Ronaldsen

Sorry about the length of time it's taken for a reply (I didn't have 'net access for 4 or 5 months :). First - my local library has the same type of filter, so I know this! - if there are too many banned words on a page, it simply refuses to load it, so it looks like there's been a network error, and there are several words that it will display, but will not allow you to send. For example, swear words and the like are ouright blocked, but words like "demon" and "blood" will display, but will not be sent through a web form or email.

Second, there's no reason why we shouldn't link to the trailer - no, we should link to the trailers. Consider it done!

Last, I saw this in... let's say, a weekly e-mail I'll call "PopB".

   When Alfonso Cuaron signed up to direct Harry
   Potter 3 he had to sign a contract not to swear
   on set in front of the child actors. So instead
   he resorted to swearing only in Spanish.
   Consequently, Hogwarts pupils are all fluent in
   Spanish curses, and even started calling the
   director (a deleted Spanish curse & translation)

-- Jim Regan 02:45, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC

Can PoA's ending be considered a Deus Ex Machina?

Contents 1 watch 2 Plot Summary 3 Images 4 Voldemort

[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)

[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)