It is these events, mostly related to the use of magic, that make the Harry Potter stories so successful. The magical aspects of novels offer audiences a break from reality, even if only for a chapter or two. Instead of encouraging audiences to engage in powerful and dangerous sorcery in real life, the Harry Potter series encourages the expansion of children's imaginative powers, while allowing them to realize their own personal strength through the victories and defeats of their favorite characters. Although Hermoine Granger, Harry Potter's best friend, is expert in the use of magic, she is also a brilliant student. In fact, in The Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermoine uses magical time-traveling tools to allow herself to attend more classes than she could normally fit into her school schedule. His dedication to schoolwork shows that he is only using magic to enhance his learning potential, not traveling back in time to do evil things that could be related to the occult. Hogwarts places many safeguards to do its best to prevent the evil side of magic from being used by its students, encouraging the presence of seduction into occult practices. Although dark magic exists in the Harry Potter novels, dark magic is only performed by those known to be evil or in defense against them; after the death of his godfather, Sirius