YES ! It's the first time I see a post about John Williams, I think he's brilliant, and I totally agree with this !!!

Very interesting video by the way !

I have a lot of things to say about the music (you can almost hear the big block of writing coming this way^^):

I think every Harry Potter movie has a great soundtrack (I also really like the soundtrack of the second movie) but, to me, The three first (the ones John Williams composed) are really the best ! And particularly the third one .

When I was about twelve, all my classmates had their favorite songs, favorite band, etc, and they found me so strange because I didn't really listen to music. But the only "songs" I really liked were movie soundtracks, and I could listen to the Harry Potter ones again and again and again.

Now, I've learned to appreciate some songs and bands as well (Franz Ferdinand !^^) but I stll love movie soundtracks.

And I think the way John Williams composed the music for Prisoner of Azkaban is particularly clever (it's explained in the video). Two years ago, I went to a concert where they broadcast the Prisoner of Azkaban, with an orchestra that played the whole soundtrack. I swear I felt shivers when the dementors entered the train (and that sort of thing happens very, very rarely to me, I'm not really one to shiver just when I hear a music ^^), and when they played Buckbeak's Flight... I don't even have words to describe it properly !

I also loved the end credits (I never skip them when I watch the movie, I think they're awesome !), and I really like the way it sounds at around 2:16 minutes of Mischief Managed (I think it's the right time, you can hear it on Youtube): again, I don't really have the words, but there's a kind of "rolling" sound (I really don't have any musical vocabulary XD) that I love !

Anyway, after the concert I bought a book that talked about John Williams' soundtrack for this movie, and that's when I realized how intelligently the soundtrack was thought: I read about the soundtrack that's playing during the Knight Bus scene, and (I never noticed before) about how Williams used an accordion when the Bus squeezes "accordion-like" between two other buses.

Now I see (partly thanks to the video) that it's not the only interesting thing about the soundtrack, but it really impressed me when I noticed that.

I think that's all I had to say about it !

I'm so glad I came across this post ^^