As one approaches, Harry faints after reliving his parents' deaths the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Remus Lupin, repels the Dementor with a Patronus charm. Ron's father warns Harry about Sirius Black, a convicted murderer who escaped from the wizards' prison, Azkaban, and is believed to be hunting down Harry.ĭementors, the guards of Azkaban, board the Hogwarts Express while hunting for Black. Harry reunites with his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry encounters the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, at the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley, where Fudge asks Harry to remain until school starts. Fearing expulsion for using magic outside Hogwarts, Harry runs away the Knight Bus, a vehicle that rescues stranded wizards, takes him to London. After Aunt Marge insults Harry and his deceased parents, an angry Harry accidentally inflates her. Thirteen-year-old Harry Potter spends another unhappy summer with the Dursleys. Video games loosely based on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were also released for several platforms, and most obtained favourable reviews. The film adaptation of the novel was released in 2004, grossing more than $796 million and earning critical acclaim. The book won the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was short-listed for other awards, including the Hugo.
The book sold 68,000 copies in just three days after its release in the United Kingdom and since has sold over three million in the country. Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she began writing it. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 8 July 1999 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 8 September 1999 by Scholastic, Inc. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban, the wizard prison, believed to be one of Lord Voldemort's old allies.
The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Rowling and is the third in the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J.
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