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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Part 2

Like I mentioned before, this is my third time re-reading this book and I am able to appreciate the little moments way more than I did before!

Just look at this scene! The second Madam Pomfrey looks at Harry, she is so done like, "Oh, no! You again, what stupid, dangerous, life threatening thing did you do now??" and mind you this is only his third year😂.

Also, can we talk about McGonagall casually refering Madam Pomfrey as "Poppy". My mind is racing with all the nicknames these professors must have for each other! Minnie, Sev, Al and what not! Ooh, they must also have those hate her nicknames for umbridge and lockhart.

Whelps, I gotta go day dream about staff room drunken conversations with these nicknames being casually thrown about!!

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My Experiments With Truth

An autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi

If you are from India, you probably know a lot about him already. As a child, our course books taught us all the great humanitarian public work he did during India's independence movement. Although, once I grew older and joined social media, a huge number of people DESPISED him because of multiple reasons. This book piqued my interest because this was the best way to know about his life.

I have read more than half of his story and I really enjoy his memoirs of Public service. They are moving, frightening, realistic and brings out the creative, humanitarian and down to earth person that Mahatma Gandhi was. However, I read his family life with nothing but contempt and rage. I try to argue that he belonged to a different time woth different values but it still doesn't calm the anger boiling in me!

One such story that stands out is this:

To give a little context: His father was on his deathbed for quite some time. Every night he tended to him until his father fell asleep. One particular night, his uncle was in town who wanted to step in and take care of his brother. So, Gandhi was excused from his duties for the night. He went into his room and as a married teenager felt some desires and had sex or in his words "gave into lust". On that very night, he was woken up and told that his father passed away. A little later they found out that that night's activity resulted in his wife being pregnant.

Here is what bugs me, he was obviously heartbroken and in pain. At the same time, he felt guilty for leaving his father alone in his final moments. But to call your unborn child an embarrassment? To say that your child's early death was a result of him being conceived out of embarrassment?

It boils my blood. All I want to do is scream that the little child in there is to be born and he his not to be shamed no matter the night he was conceived!!

To project such embarrassment onto a little child and to tell your pregnant wife that she was a walking proof of his shame is absolutely horrible! Imagine the pain that child would have faced if he had survived..

In all, I respect and appreciate his work as a Humanitarian but I cannot bear the way he treated his family and I will not accept any excuses for that!

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Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

This is my third time re-reading the Harry Potter series and I still cannot get enough!

Here are some scenes I recently came through and I ABSOLUTELY fell for, again!

Fred and George Weasely are my absolute favorite! Everytime I open a Harry Potter book, they can always make me smile no matter how many times I read there scenes. While reading this scene, I had to stop reading for a minute just because I couldn't stop laughing!

To be honest, I would read an entire series focused on Fred and George in Hogwarts more than the Fantastic Beasts series!

I just Love Them sooo much💖

This scene though. J.K. Rowling and her opinions have made me despise her but her words, they are so damn powerful! Even though I know Black's truth, it still scared me so much.

Also, Molly Weasley people! She just considers Harry as Ron's twin at this point. The way she tries to protect him, even though she maybe wrong in keeping him ignorant of the danger, she is still one of the most wholesome and pure hearted person ever.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this first post! I will post more stuff from the other novels as I come through some amazing scenes! Until then, toodles!