Much of his new-found knowledge is provided by Professor Lupin, a new teacher with a dark secret, portrayed by David Thewlis. It turns out that like dreaded Professor Snape (Alan Rickman), Lupin was a classmate of Lily and James Potter. Unlike Snape, he was their friend -- and he takes Harry under his wing.

The "Harry Potter" series seems to be employing entire population of good British actors. In addition to Thewlis and Oldman (who are both wonderful), this film brings us Emma Thompson as a flakey teacher of prognostication and Julie Christie as a witchy pub owner. Michael Gambon replaces late Richard Harris as headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Gambon's is a more robust and mischievous portrayal, and while he's very good, Harris' frailty brought more poignance to role.

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (as Harry, Hermione and Ron) are growing into very attractive young actors who can really carry action, and director Cuarón gets most out of them. This is good, but it's at expense of veterans Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane and Alan Rickman. Rickman makes best of his diminished presence by stealing every scene he is in with drippy malevolence.

Like previous "Harry Potter" films, this one is rated PG for some frightening moments, so parents should evaluate whether their younger children can handle it or not. I felt this one was a lot safer for little ones because dangers Harry and his friends face are more psychological: There is no face-off with evil Voldemort (just wait until movie #4!) and nothing as graphically scary as giant snake and spiders we saw in last film. What you have here are spooky Dementors and a werewolf; if your kids could handle "Scooby-Doo" without nightmares, they should be fine with "The Prisoner of Azkaban."

The movie feels a little more disjointed than previous two, which may be due to need to condense action into 136 minutes (which is pretty long for a film these days, especially one targeted to families). Potter fans may miss some of details revealed in novel, and those who aren't familiar with book may have a few moments when they have trouble following story. My eight-year- old daughter, who enjoyed it very much, left with several questions about what was motivating Professor Lupin and Sirius Black. She wants to see it again... but in meantime, she is actually reading book. A movie that is entertaining *and* inspires your kids to read? There's nothing better than that...

If couple really wants to save their marriage in spite of extramarital affair, then finding out why extramarital affair happened and agreeing on that reason is first step in healing process. If you are currently trying to save your marriage and one of you had an extramarital affair, try to limit your pain that you feel and talk things out with your spouse so you can clearly define and agree upon exactly why extramarital affair took place. If you cannot do this, chances are you will never get over extramarital affair and your marriage most likely won't survive...or at least you won't have a healthy marriage after extramarital affair.

After you have defined and agreed upon reason that extramarital affair took place, you must decide whether that reasons (or reasons) warrant actually going through a painful divorce. At this point you have 2 choices...either decide in your own or decide with your spouse. The latter is optimal for a variety of reasons but main reason is that you may actually save your marriage if you decide together. Deciding together whether real reason an extramarital affair took place indicates that you're both really reaching out for something, something you most likely didn't have prior to extramarital affair...togetherness.

So, should you get a divorce just because one of you had an extramarital affair? No, not necessarily. Depending on how collaborative you can be with your spouse, how 'detective-like' you can act, and how much soul searching you can do, you may just become stronger together because of an extramarital affair. It may sound odd, but that's truth. Of course, it is entirely possible (and probable) that if you both don't define and agree on why extramarital affair took place and work to address that reason or reasons, your marriage won't ever be healthy again and you'll never be able to healthily survive extramarital affair.

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