![]() ![]() He was saving his own skin as much as mine" (p. ![]() ![]() There was nothing brave about what he did. He says, "Have you been imagining some act of glorious heroism? Then let me correct you-your saintly father and his friends played a highly amusing joke on me that would have resulted in my death if your father hadn't got cold feet at the last moment. He says, "I know the truth, all right? He saved your life! Dumbledore told me! You wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for my dad!" (p. Harry and his friends are thirteen now, breaching adulthood, and the new cast of significant characters forces them to question their ideas of cut-and-dry, black-and-white morality.Ī shining example of this new perspective is when Harry challenges Snape's claims that his father, James Potter, was "exceedingly arrogant." Harry tells Snape to shut up. In The Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry begins to understand that the world is not divided into a simple binary of good versus evil or people who do only good things or only bad things. ![]()
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