'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' is the third installment in the Harry Potter series. Can you remember what happens to Harry and the gang as they struggle through their third year at Hogwarts? Test your knowledge by taking this quiz.
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An extraordinary creative achievement by an extraordinary talent, Jim Kay's inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling's classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters - including Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Professor Trelawney. With paint, pencil and pixels, Kay conjures the wizarding world as we have never seen it before. Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this full-colour edition will captivate fans and new readers alike as Harry, now in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, faces Dementors, death omens and - of course - danger.
An extraordinary creative achievement by an extraordinary talent, Jim Kay's inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling's classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters - including Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Professor Trelawney. With paint, pencil and pixels, Kay conjures the wizarding world as we have never seen it before.
Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this full-colour edition will captivate fans and new readers alike as Harry, now in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, faces Dementors, death omens and - of course - danger. Seeing Jim Kay's illustrations moved me profoundly. I love his interpretation of Harry Potter's world, and I feel honoured and grateful that he has lent his talent to it. J.K. Rowling.
Kay's illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a triumph - a book so alive it seems to jump, explode and slither out of your hands as you read. Praise for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Illustrated Edition, Telegraph. It is stunning. With full colour illustrations throughout from Greenaway Medal winner Kay, who breathes incredible life into these much loved characters and locations, staying faithful to Rowling's vision but revitalising the story for a new generation. Praise for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Illustrated Edition: Bookseller.
Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 450 million copies, been translated into 79 languages, and made into 8 blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a film script inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Rowling has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London's West End in the summer of 2016. In 2012, J.K.
Rowling's digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy her new writing and immerse themselves deeper in the wizarding world. Rowling has written a novel for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy, and also writes crime novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE for services to children's literature, France's Legion d'honneur and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. He studied illustration at the University of Westminster, and worked in the Library & Archives of Tate Britain and then as an assistant curator of botanical illustrations at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew before returning to producing art full-time. After a one-man exhibition at Richmond Gallery he was approached by a publisher and his freelance career began. Alongside his illustration work, Jim has produced concept work for film and television, and contributed to the group exhibition Memory Palace at the V&A museum in London. The Illustrated Edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published to international acclaim.
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Bloomsbury has commissioned Jim to illustrate all seven books in J.K. Rowling's classic series. Jim lives and works in Northamptonshire with his partner.
' Harry scanned the moving photograph, and a grin spread across his face as he saw all nine of the Weasleys waving furiously at him.Right in the middle of the picture was Ron, tall and gangling, with his pet rat, Scabbers, on his shoulder.' —Harry seeing the photography of the in Egypt.Hedwig and a school owl carrying unconscious Errol, delivering mailspends another summer holiday with the in mid-, and things haven't been that easy for him. Over the summer, the Dursleys have forbidden him to talk to any of the neighbours out of fear of him exposing his abilities. The separation from his magical supplies (e.g., spellbooks, etc.) have become a real problem for Harry, too, because his teachers at have given him a lot of summer homework. He has seized the opportunity to start it a week after his arrival home by sneaking some of his books upstairs and hiding them in his room while and go out to admire 's new company car. None of the Dursleys have noticed him studying magic every night since then, and Harry has been very careful to avoid trouble with them, for his aunt and uncle have already been in a bad mood with him due to a telephone call they got from their nephew's best friend at Hogwarts, about which Vernon has furiously confronted him, even though Harry doesn't know how Ron got their home number.
The incident must have simply made Ron warn their other friend not to call, as Harry received no word from them afterwards. The only improvement in his relationship to the Dursleys that gets changed is that they have given him permission to let his pet snowy owl out at night with a promise not to use her to send letter to Ron or Hermione, since Uncle Vernon couldn't take the screeching racket she makes while bored if she gets locked in her cage all the time.On (Harry's thirteenth birthday), after midnight, Harry receives gifts and letters from Ron, Hermione, and, each wishing him a happy birthday and sending him a gift. According to Ron, his dad, won a Prize Draw for seven hundred galleons and has used it to take the to to visit his eldest son, with the remainder being used to provide Ron with a to replace that was broken. Harry also learns that is entering his at Hogwarts and has been named. According to Hermione, she and her parents are currently spending the holiday in. Also, both Ron and Hermione mention in their letters they will be in London on the last week before term to pick up their school supplies and want Harry to join them.
Hagrid hints in his letter the he sent Harry will come in handy next term but he wants the reason for it to be a surprise until the term starts. Another letter from Professor arrives, saying that are allowed to visit the village of and that their guardian needs to sign the permission form in order for them to do so.Chapter 2: 's. ' Bad blood will out. Now, I'm saying nothing against your family, Petunia, but your sister was a bad egg. They turn up in the best families.
Then she ran off with a wastrel and here's the result right in front of us.' —Marjorie Dursley, aboutThe 'floating' Marjorie DursleyWhen Harry awakes the next morning, he goes downstairs hoping to watch TV. Unfortunately for him, he finds his Uncle Vernon and Dudley already watching the news and sits down with them unnoticed as the channel's anchorman is halfway through the report on word from the out on the London streets of an escaped convict, who Uncle Vernon comments looks like he came from an asylum rather than a prison. This is obviously because the mental state of Black's gaunt face and elbow-length hair is almost like comparing him to Harry, who luckily feels well groomed. The reporter then transitions to his report on the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries' announcement without implying beforehand which prison or asylum Black has escaped from, much to Uncle Vernon's confusion.Nonetheless, Vernon announces to the family that his sister, is coming to visit for a week. Harry agrees to behave normally during her visit, if his uncle will sign his permission form and has to send to the Weasleys for the week due to Marge not knowing that Harry is a wizard. On the final night, when she calls his father, a lazy good for nothing drunk, Harry loses his temper and her.
She explodes and Harry decides to take his school things and run away, fearing he will almost certainly be expelled from Hogwarts, after using outside school.Chapter 3: The. ' Anyway, they cornered Black in the middle of a street full of Muggles an' Black took out 'is wand and 'e blasted 'alf the street apart, an' a wizard got it, an' so did a dozen Muggles what got in the way' — telling Harry aboutHarry inside the Knight BusHe reaches and sees a staring at him. In his shock, Harry falls and the, a triple-decker bus designed for wizard transportation, arrives. The dog vanishes and is nowhere in sight. Harry meets the Knight Bus's conductor, and the driver,.
Harry departs on the Knight Bus to the in. He learns from the Daily Prophet, the same convict and of, broke out of, the first person to ever do so.
Sirius was imprisoned for murdering with a single curse in, right after the Potters' murder. At the Leaky Cauldron, he meets the, in person, though Harry has to pretend that he doesn't know him since Harry and Ron were technically breaking school rules during their previous school year when they saw him in Hagrid's Hut. After explaining that Marge has been restored to normal and her memory modified, to Harry's surprise, Fudge doesn't take any action against him stating that accidental uses of magic don't count as violations of the. Fudge books a room for Harry, where he will stay for the rest of the summer, but refuses to sign Harry's Hogsmeade permission slip.Chapter 4: The. ' Are you planning to eat or sleep at all this year, Hermione?'
—Harry referring to Hermione's number of classesThe caged copies of The Monster Book of MonstersHarry spends the rest of the holidays in, purchasing his school things and making sure not to make any unnecessary purchases. On the last day of the holidays, Harry meets up with Ron, Hermione and the rest of the Weasleys who are also staying at the Leaky Cauldron. When Hermione decides to spend her birthday money on a magical pet, to Ron's displeasure, Hermione purchases a cat named, who harasses Ron's pet rat Scabbers.
At some point during the night, Harry overhears a conversation between Ron's parents, Arthur and Molly Weasley. From what he hears, he learns that when met his downfall, Black lost everything, and is now trying to kill Harry. Harry realises that Fudge let him off because he was relieved to find Harry alive. He is unconcerned about Black, doubting that the escapee could harm him at Hogwarts, with headmaster around.Chapter 5: The. ' I felt weird, like I'd never be cheerful again.' —Ron, about the DementorThe DementorThe next day, shortly before he boards the Hogwarts Express, Arthur tried to warn him about Black and makes him promise not to go looking for Black no matter what he hears.
Harry tells him that he already knows because he heard Mr and Mrs Weasley talking about it earlier. Harry is also confused and asks why he would go looking for somebody who wanted to kill him. On the train, Harry, Ron, and Hermione share a compartment with Professor, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.
After several hours, the train stops and a sinister, cloaked figure enters. It sucks the happiness out of Harry, who faints. The creature then approaches Harry, possibly to him, until Lupin drives it off with a spell.After Harry recovers, Lupin hands him and the others some chocolate and explains that the creature was a, one of the Azkaban Guards, and that they were searching the train for Sirius Black.
At Hogwarts, taunts Harry over his reaction to the Dementor. After getting inside, Professor McGonagall calls Harry and Hermione to her and takes them to her office. Once there, McGonagall reveals that Lupin had informed her by Owl Post of Harry's adverse reaction to the Dementor and wants him looked at by to see if he's ill. The matron confirms that he's fine. After McGonagall's business with Hermione is concluded, they return to the Great Hall to find that they missed the sorting ceremony. Dumbledore announces the two changes in staffing during the year: Lupin, and, who has been made the Care of Magical Creatures teacher due to the retirement of.
Dumbledore also announces that Dementors are to be stationed around the school as a precaution against Black.Chapter 6:. ' Then you should know, Potter, that Sybill Trelawney has predicted the death of one student a year since she arrived at this school. None of them has died yet. Seeing death omens is her favourite way of greeting a new class.'
—, about Trelawney's predictions.Sybill TrelawneyLessons start the next day. Harry, Ron and Hermione head to the for their first Divination lesson. They meet and predict future events using. Harry sees a black dog in his tea cup, which Trelawney identifies as the, the omen of. This worries Harry, as he remembers the black dog he saw when he ran away.
In their next lesson, Professor assures Harry that Trelawney has predicted the deaths of a number of students, none of whom have died. In their Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Hagrid teaches them about (horse/eagle creatures).Although initially nervous, Harry successfully approaches and rides a grey hippogriff named. Later in the lesson, Malfoy, who had not been listening to Hagrid's lecture, insults Buckbeak, causing it to slash his arm with its talons. He is taken to the hospital wing, and Hagrid fears that he will take the blame for letting Buckbeak attack Malfoy, even though Malfoy provoked it in the first place. Harry and his friends offer to help him clear Buckbeak. This makes Hagrid sober up and finally notice that Harry's there.
He angrily tells Harry off for leaving the castle after dark and escorts the trio back to Gryffindor Tower personally.Chapter 7: The. ' What would it have been for you? A piece of homework that only got nine out of ten?' —Ron, to Hermione about her BoggartThe Boggart assuming the form of a mummyLater in the week, in, Malfoy returns with a heavily bandaged arm. Although it is implied that he is exaggerating the seriousness of the injury, there is no way to prove it. Harry learns that Black has been sighted near Hogwarts.
During the lesson, Malfoy hints that Black may be connected to Harry's past. In Defence against the Dark Arts, Lupin teaches the third years about, shape-shifters that take the shape of a person's worst fear. The class then take on the Boggart, forcing it to assume a shape they find amusing.
When it comes to Harry's turn he is sure the Boggart will turn into a Dementor but Lupin jumps in and repels the Boggart for him. Faced by Lupin, the Boggart takes the shape of a bright glowing orb. Harry is disappointed that Lupin does not let him fight the Boggart, thinking that Lupin feels he is not up to the task.Chapter 8: Flight of the. ' Oh yes, Professorhead, he got very angry when she wouldn't let him, you see.
Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.' — to Professor Dumbledore regarding the Fat Lady.Lupin's potion made by SnapeIn October, the Gryffindor Quidditch team practises hard for the upcoming Quidditch season, especially since this is their team captain Oliver Wood's final year at Hogwarts.
Oliver believes that despite the misfortune which occurred during the previous two years their team should be able to win the Quidditch Cup before he graduates. Third years are also on, and only Harry is not allowed, because his uncle did not sign his permission form.
Harry spends the day in Lupin's office, drinking tea with him. Lupin tells him that he did not let Harry face the Boggart because he did not want the Boggart to become Lord Voldemort.
Shortly afterwards, Snape appears with a for Lupin. Lupin claims to simply have an illness, and that he is aided by the potion.A few hours later, Ron and Hermione return. They reach the portrait of the Fat Lady and see it slashed and that the Fat Lady is gone. Peeves reveals that he saw her fleeing through another portrait after Sirius Black attacked her for not letting him into Gryffindor Tower. Dumbledore, and Percy seek her out.Chapter 9: Defeat. ' Well, you know the Whomping Willow.
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It - it doesn't like being hit.' —Ron regarding Harry's Nimbus 2000The GrimEvery student is moved in the to sleep while teachers search the castle.
They fail to find any sign of Black, and Snape suggests that someone inside the castle helped Black gain entry. Dumbledore refutes this argument.Nobody talks about anything but Sirius Black for the next few days.
The Fat Lady refuses to return to work until Black is caught. Because of this, Dumbledore is forced to replace her with Sir Cadogan the Mad Knight.
Nobody is happy about this both because he changes the password twice a day and because he's for the most part annoying but there's nothing they can do because none of the other pictures wanted the job because of what happened to the Fat Lady.Meanwhile, because of the attack, an annoyed Harry gets placed under surveillance: Teachers find excuses to go down the halls with him, Percy Weasley, acting on his mother's orders, follows him everywhere like a guard dog. Professor McGonagall decides to reveal the truth to Harry but Harry reveals he already knows Black's after him. McGonagall explains that's why she doesn't want him practising Quidditch in the evenings but Harry states he's got to train.
Professor McGonagall agrees and decides to ask Madam Hooch to be present.Gryffindor's first Quidditch match is coming up, but due to Malfoy's injury, Slytherin cannot play. Gryffindor plays instead.
On the day before the match, Lupin becomes ill and Snape teaches his classes for him. Oddly, he ignores Lupin's syllabus and instead gives a lesson on and assigns the class to write an essay on werewolves.During the match, it is raining badly and Harry sees a large black dog resembling the Grim in the topmost empty row of seats in the Quidditch stadium. Dementors enter the match causing Harry to faint and fall from his broomstick. Harry realises that the screaming he had been hearing during his Dementor-induced fainting spells is his mother in her last moments.Dumbledore saves Harry, but his broomstick flies into the and is destroyed. Hufflepuff wins the match shortly afterward. After the match, Harry wakes up in the and learns what happened, including that Oliver Wood has declined Hufflepuff captain 's offer for a rematch.Chapter 10: The.
' This little beauty's taught us more than all the teachers in this school. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. We owe them so much.' —, about the Marauder's MapThe Marauder's MapAlarmed by the adverse effects the Dementors have on him, Madam Pomfrey insists that Harry stay in the hospital wing for the rest of the weekend. The following week, Lupin is back teaching class and states that the class doesn't have to write the essay Snape assigned for them, though Hermione has finished hers.
After class, Harry goes to Lupin wondering why the Dementors affect him so much. Lupin explains that Dementors are fear itself and they pull forth the horrors from a person's past, which is why just before he faints, Harry hears his mother screaming before she dies and why the Dementors affect him worse than anyone else.
Harry asks Lupin if he can give him private lessons on the spell to drive off Dementors in case another one arrives at a Quidditch match. Lupin says he will, but after the Christmas holidays, citing his frequent illness.Hufflepuff is defeated by Ravenclaw in their next Quidditch match, which gives the Gryffindor team a chance in the running for the Quidditch Cup. Harry, who uses an old school broom in training sessions, is busy looking to obtain a new broomstick for himself so Gryffindor can stand a chance in their remaining matches.During the last weekend before the holidays, while the eligible students visit Ho.
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