Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

I'm now a little more than halfway through the third book in the series. I'm making good time, if I do say so myself. I'm three and a half days ahead of schedule, which means on the schedule I should be finishing up the second book today. Something tells me things are going to slow down in books 4-6. We'll see. Here's the cover.

This book is better than I expected. I remembered not liking it very much when I read it initially. I also remember really liking Chamber of Secrets, which this time I thought was just so-so. Prisoner of Azkaban is more exciting than the other two so far without being too dark. And the fact that there is a movie will definitely understand the ending. Reading it when I was younger, I had no idea what happened in the end and how any of it was possible (the parts where Scabbers turns into Pettigrew, the time travel part, etc) but having seen it I can now picture what happens much better.

I just got out the fourth book from the library. I'm kind of dreading reading it because of how dark the movie is, but somehow I think the books are a little more uplifting, especially since a lot of the comic relief (minus Ron, of course) are cut out of the movies for time's sake. It probably also has to do with the book being almost pea soup green, which makes me not want to read it much, but oh well. Probably will finish book 3 in the next 2-3 days and then begin number 4 this weekend. I've been on this Harry Potter mission for a week. I'm impressed. 918 pages down, 3,182 to go! 22% done with the series.