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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

April 09, 2024

"Prisoner of Azkaban" redirects here. For the film adaptation, see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film). For other uses, see Prisoner of Azkaban (disambiguation).

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and is the third in the Harry Potter series. The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 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.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Cover art of the first UK edition
AuthorJ. K. Rowling
IllustratorCliff Wright (first edition)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHarry Potter
Release number
3rd in series
GenreFantasy
PublisherBloomsbury (UK)
Publication date
8 July 1999
Pages317 (first edition)
ISBN0-7475-4215-5
Preceded byHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 
Followed byHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

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.[1][2][3][4] Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she began writing it. 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.[5] 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 film adaptation of the novel was released in 2004, grossing more than $796 million and earning critical acclaim. Video games loosely based on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were also released for several platforms, and most obtained favourable reviews.

Plot edit

While Harry is living with the Dursleys, Aunt Marge comes to visit. When he and his late parents are insulted by Marge, an angry Harry accidentally inflates her. Harry packs up his stuff and leaves the house, choosing to spend the last weeks of summer at the Leaky Cauldron inn in London. While there, Harry is warned that a former follower of Voldemort, named Sirius Black, is seeking him out after having escaped from the wizard prison, Azkaban.

At Hogwarts, the guards of Azkaban, known as the Dementors, patrol the school looking for Black. Harry is unusually affected by their presence, and asks help from Remus Lupin, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, in learning to repel them. Lupin teaches Harry the incredibly difficult Patronus charm, but Harry is able to produce a full-bodied Patronus to fight off the Dementors. Meanwhile, Black is reported to have been sighted in the village of Hogsmeade, close to Hogwarts.

Harry is given a secret map by Fred and George Weasley, which reveals everyone inside the castle and its grounds. Harry uses it to sneak into Hogsmeade without permission. Hiding inside a pub, he overhears a conversation in which he learns that Black is actually his godfather, and that he killed his own best friend, Peter Pettigrew, while also betraying Harry's father, James, to Voldemort.

Harry, Ron and Hermione visit Hagrid at his hut, and are surprised to find Ron's missing pet rat, Scabbers, hiding there. As they walk back to the castle with Scabbers, Ron is attacked by a large dog. The dog drags Ron into a secret tunnel and disappears, coming out on the other side, inside the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. The dog is revealed to be Black in his Animagus form.

Harry and Hermione reach the Shack, followed by Lupin, who spots them on Harry's map. Lupin disarms Harry, then explains why he believes Black to be innocent. Black claims that the crimes attributed to him were actually committed by Pettigrew, who escaped suspicion by faking his own death. Pettigrew is also an Animagus, and has been hiding as Ron's rat Scabbers this whole time. Harry suggests handing Pettigrew over to the Dementors.

While walking back to the castle, the full moon suddenly emerges and Lupin, secretly a werewolf, starts transforming. Black turns into the dog to protect the others, and Pettigrew escapes amid the chaos. Harry, Hermione and Black are accosted by Dementors, and Black ends up being captured.

While Black is held captive inside a tower in Hogwarts, Dumbledore confirms with Harry and Hermione that he is indeed innocent. He instructs them to save Black, by going back in time and setting him free, before he is handed over to the Dementors. Using a Time Turner, which Hermione has had since the beginning of the year to get to all her classes, they travel back a few hours. Present-day Harry saves his past self, and the past versions of Hermione and Black from Dementors using a Patronus. He then allows Black to be captured by Snape, before using Hagrid's hippogriff, Buckbeak, to release him from the tower and escape.

The next day, Lupin is forced to resign as his secret identity as a werewolf is now known to the school. Harry is upset at not spending more time with his godfather, Black, but Dumbledore asks him to take comfort in having saved his life. On the train journey back to London, Harry receives a letter from Black, who also sends a replacement pet owl for Ron.

Publication and reception edit

Pre-release history edit

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. The first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published by Bloomsbury on 26 June 1997 and the second, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published on 2 July 1998.[6] Rowling started to write the Prisoner of Azkaban the day after she finished The Chamber of Secrets.[7] Rowling said in 2004 that Prisoner of Azkaban was "the best writing experience I ever had...I was in a very comfortable place writing (number) three. Immediate financial worries were over, and press attention wasn't yet by any means excessive".[8]

Critical reception edit

The book received generally positive reviews.[9] The Guardian reported an average rating of 9 out of 10 for the book based on reviews from multiple British newspapers.[10] [11] Gregory Maguire wrote a review in The New York Times for Prisoner of Azkaban: in it he said, "So far, in terms of plot, the books do nothing new, but they do it brilliantly...so far, so good."[12] In a newspaper review in The New York Times, it was said that "'The Prisoner of Azkaban' may be the best 'Harry Potter' book yet".[13] A reviewer for KidsReads said, "This crisply-paced fantasy will leave you hungry for the four additional Harry books that J.K. Rowling is working on. Harry's third year is a charm. Don't miss it."[14] Kirkus Reviews did not give a starred review but said, "a properly pulse-pounding climax...The main characters and the continuing story both come along so smartly...that the book seems shorter than its page count: have readers clear their calendars if they are fans, or get out of the way if they are not."[15] Martha V. Parravano also gave a positive review for The Horn Book Magazine, calling it "quite a good book."[16] In addition, a Publishers Weekly review said, "Rowling's wit never flags, whether constructing the workings of the wizard world...or tossing off quick jokes...The Potter spell is holding strong".[17]

However, Anthony Holden, who was one of the judges against Prisoner of Azkaban for the Whitbread Award, was negative about the book, saying that the characters are "all black-and-white", and the "story-lines are predictable, the suspense minimal, the sentimentality cloying every page".[18]

In 2012 it was ranked number 12 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal.[19]

Awards edit

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won several awards, including the 1999 Booklist Editors' Choice Award,[20] the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers,[21] the 1999 FCBG Children's Book Award,[22] the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year for children's books,[23] and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.[24] It was also nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the first in the series nominated, but lost to A Deepness in the Sky.[25] Prisoner of Azkaban additionally won the 2004 Indian Paintbrush Book Award[26] and the 2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award.[27] Additionally, it was named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book in 2000[28] as well as one of their Best Books for Young Adults.[29] As with the previous two books in the series, Prisoner of Azkaban won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal for children aged 9–11 and made the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.[30] In both cases, it was the last in the series to do so.[31] However, in the latter case, a Children's Best Sellers list was created just before the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in July 2000 in order to free up more room on the original list.[32] In 2003, the novel was listed at number 24 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[33]

Sales edit

Prisoner of Azkaban sold more than 68,000 copies in the UK within three days of publication, which made it the fastest selling British book of the time.[5] The sales total by 2012 is said by The Guardian to be 3,377,906.[3]

Editions edit

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in hardcover in the UK on 8 July 1999[34] and in the US on 8 September.[34] The British paperback edition was released on 1 April 2000,[35] while the US paperback was released 1 October 2001.[36]

Bloomsbury additionally released an adult edition with a different cover design to the original, in paperback on 10 July 2004[37] and in hardcover in October 2004.[38] A hardcover special edition, featuring a green border and signature, was released on 8 July 1999.[34] In May 2004, Bloomsbury released a Celebratory Edition, with a blue and purple border.[39] On 1 November 2010, they released the 10th anniversary Signature edition illustrated by Clare Mellinsky and in July 2013 a new adult cover illustrated by Andrew Davidson, both these editions were designed by Webb & Webb Design Limited.[40]

Beginning on 27 August 2013, Scholastic will release new covers for the paperback editions of Harry Potter in the United States to celebrate 15 years of the series.[41] The covers were designed by the author and illustrator Kazu Kibuishi.[42]

An illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released on 3 October 2017, and was illustrated by Jim Kay, who illustrates the previous two instalments. This includes over 115 new illustrations and will be followed by Illustrated editions of the following 4 novels in the future.[43] Jim Kay announced on 6 October 2022 that he would not be illustrating the final two Harry Potter books and that his last work, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, would be released on 11 October 2022.[43]

Adaptations edit

Film edit

Main article: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)

The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in 2004 and was directed by Alfonso Cuarón from a screenplay by Steve Kloves.[44] The film débuted at number one at the box office and held that position for two weeks.[45] It made a total of $796.7 million worldwide,[46] which made it the second highest-grossing film of 2004 behind Shrek 2. However, among all eight entries in the Harry Potter franchise, Prisoner of Azkaban grossed the lowest; yet among critics and fans, the film is often cited as the best in the franchise – in large part due to Cuarón's stylistic influence.[47][48] The film ranks at number 471 in Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.[49]

Video games edit

Main article: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)

Three unique video games by different developers were released in 2004 by Electronic Arts, loosely based on the book:

Developer Release date Platform Genre GameRankings Metacritic
KnowWonder 25 May 2004 Microsoft Windows Adventure/puzzle 68.52%[50] 67/100[51]
Griptonite Game Boy Advance Role-playing game 69.58%[52] 69/100[53]
EA UK 29 May 2004 GameCube Action-adventure 69.74%[54] 67/100[55]
PlayStation 2 72.59%[56] 70/100[57]
Xbox 68.39%[58] 67/100[59]

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Prisoner of Azkaban redirects here For the film adaptation see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film For other uses see Prisoner of Azkaban disambiguation Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J K Rowling and is the third in the Harry Potter series The book follows Harry Potter a young wizard in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 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 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanCover art of the first UK editionAuthorJ K RowlingIllustratorCliff Wright first edition CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishSeriesHarry PotterRelease number3rd in seriesGenreFantasyPublisherBloomsbury UK Publication date8 July 1999Pages317 first edition ISBN0 7475 4215 5Preceded byHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Followed byHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 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 1 2 3 4 Rowling found the book easy to write finishing it just a year after she began writing it 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 5 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 film adaptation of the novel was released in 2004 grossing more than 796 million and earning critical acclaim Video games loosely based on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were also released for several platforms and most obtained favourable reviews Contents 1 Plot 2 Publication and reception 2 1 Pre release history 2 2 Critical reception 2 3 Awards 2 4 Sales 3 Editions 4 Adaptations 4 1 Film 4 2 Video games 5 References 6 External linksPlot editWhile Harry is living with the Dursleys Aunt Marge comes to visit When he and his late parents are insulted by Marge an angry Harry accidentally inflates her Harry packs up his stuff and leaves the house choosing to spend the last weeks of summer at the Leaky Cauldron inn in London While there Harry is warned that a former follower of Voldemort named Sirius Black is seeking him out after having escaped from the wizard prison Azkaban At Hogwarts the guards of Azkaban known as the Dementors patrol the school looking for Black Harry is unusually affected by their presence and asks help from Remus Lupin the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in learning to repel them Lupin teaches Harry the incredibly difficult Patronus charm but Harry is able to produce a full bodied Patronus to fight off the Dementors Meanwhile Black is reported to have been sighted in the village of Hogsmeade close to Hogwarts Harry is given a secret map by Fred and George Weasley which reveals everyone inside the castle and its grounds Harry uses it to sneak into Hogsmeade without permission Hiding inside a pub he overhears a conversation in which he learns that Black is actually his godfather and that he killed his own best friend Peter Pettigrew while also betraying Harry s father James to Voldemort Harry Ron and Hermione visit Hagrid at his hut and are surprised to find Ron s missing pet rat Scabbers hiding there As they walk back to the castle with Scabbers Ron is attacked by a large dog The dog drags Ron into a secret tunnel and disappears coming out on the other side inside the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade The dog is revealed to be Black in his Animagus form Harry and Hermione reach the Shack followed by Lupin who spots them on Harry s map Lupin disarms Harry then explains why he believes Black to be innocent Black claims that the crimes attributed to him were actually committed by Pettigrew who escaped suspicion by faking his own death Pettigrew is also an Animagus and has been hiding as Ron s rat Scabbers this whole time Harry suggests handing Pettigrew over to the Dementors While walking back to the castle the full moon suddenly emerges and Lupin secretly a werewolf starts transforming Black turns into the dog to protect the others and Pettigrew escapes amid the chaos Harry Hermione and Black are accosted by Dementors and Black ends up being captured While Black is held captive inside a tower in Hogwarts Dumbledore confirms with Harry and Hermione that he is indeed innocent He instructs them to save Black by going back in time and setting him free before he is handed over to the Dementors Using a Time Turner which Hermione has had since the beginning of the year to get to all her classes they travel back a few hours Present day Harry saves his past self and the past versions of Hermione and Black from Dementors using a Patronus He then allows Black to be captured by Snape before using Hagrid s hippogriff Buckbeak to release him from the tower and escape The next day Lupin is forced to resign as his secret identity as a werewolf is now known to the school Harry is upset at not spending more time with his godfather Black but Dumbledore asks him to take comfort in having saved his life On the train journey back to London Harry receives a letter from Black who also sends a replacement pet owl for Ron Publication and reception editPre release history edit Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series The first Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone was published by Bloomsbury on 26 June 1997 and the second Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was published on 2 July 1998 6 Rowling started to write the Prisoner of Azkaban the day after she finished The Chamber of Secrets 7 Rowling said in 2004 that Prisoner of Azkaban was the best writing experience I ever had I was in a very comfortable place writing number three Immediate financial worries were over and press attention wasn t yet by any means excessive 8 Critical reception edit The book received generally positive reviews 9 The Guardian reported an average rating of 9 out of 10 for the book based on reviews from multiple British newspapers 10 11 Gregory Maguire wrote a review in The New York Times for Prisoner of Azkaban in it he said So far in terms of plot the books do nothing new but they do it brilliantly so far so good 12 In a newspaper review in The New York Times it was said that The Prisoner of Azkaban may be the best Harry Potter book yet 13 A reviewer for KidsReads said This crisply paced fantasy will leave you hungry for the four additional Harry books that J K Rowling is working on Harry s third year is a charm Don t miss it 14 Kirkus Reviews did not give a starred review but said a properly pulse pounding climax The main characters and the continuing story both come along so smartly that the book seems shorter than its page count have readers clear their calendars if they are fans or get out of the way if they are not 15 Martha V Parravano also gave a positive review for The Horn Book Magazine calling it quite a good book 16 In addition a Publishers Weekly review said Rowling s wit never flags whether constructing the workings of the wizard world or tossing off quick jokes The Potter spell is holding strong 17 However Anthony Holden who was one of the judges against Prisoner of Azkaban for the Whitbread Award was negative about the book saying that the characters are all black and white and the story lines are predictable the suspense minimal the sentimentality cloying every page 18 In 2012 it was ranked number 12 on a list of the top 100 children s novels published by School Library Journal 19 Awards edit Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won several awards including the 1999 Booklist Editors Choice Award 20 the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers 21 the 1999 FCBG Children s Book Award 22 the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year for children s books 23 and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 24 It was also nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel the first in the series nominated but lost to A Deepness in the Sky 25 Prisoner of Azkaban additionally won the 2004 Indian Paintbrush Book Award 26 and the 2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 27 Additionally it was named an American Library Association Notable Children s Book in 2000 28 as well as one of their Best Books for Young Adults 29 As with the previous two books in the series Prisoner of Azkaban won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal for children aged 9 11 and made the top of the New York Times Best Seller list 30 In both cases it was the last in the series to do so 31 However in the latter case a Children s Best Sellers list was created just before the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in July 2000 in order to free up more room on the original list 32 In 2003 the novel was listed at number 24 on the BBC s survey The Big Read 33 Sales edit Prisoner of Azkaban sold more than 68 000 copies in the UK within three days of publication which made it the fastest selling British book of the time 5 The sales total by 2012 is said by The Guardian to be 3 377 906 3 Editions editHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in hardcover in the UK on 8 July 1999 34 and in the US on 8 September 34 The British paperback edition was released on 1 April 2000 35 while the US paperback was released 1 October 2001 36 Bloomsbury additionally released an adult edition with a different cover design to the original in paperback on 10 July 2004 37 and in hardcover in October 2004 38 A hardcover special edition featuring a green border and signature was released on 8 July 1999 34 In May 2004 Bloomsbury released a Celebratory Edition with a blue and purple border 39 On 1 November 2010 they released the 10th anniversary Signature edition illustrated by Clare Mellinsky and in July 2013 a new adult cover illustrated by Andrew Davidson both these editions were designed by Webb amp Webb Design Limited 40 Beginning on 27 August 2013 Scholastic will release new covers for the paperback editions of Harry Potter in the United States to celebrate 15 years of the series 41 The covers were designed by the author and illustrator Kazu Kibuishi 42 An illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released on 3 October 2017 and was illustrated by Jim Kay who illustrates the previous two instalments This includes over 115 new illustrations and will be followed by Illustrated editions of the following 4 novels in the future 43 Jim Kay announced on 6 October 2022 that he would not be illustrating the final two Harry Potter books and that his last work Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix would be released on 11 October 2022 43 Adaptations editFilm edit Main article Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in 2004 and was directed by Alfonso Cuaron from a screenplay by Steve Kloves 44 The film debuted at number one at the box office and held that position for two weeks 45 It made a total of 796 7 million worldwide 46 which made it the second highest grossing film of 2004 behind Shrek 2 However among all eight entries in the Harry Potter franchise Prisoner of Azkaban grossed the lowest yet among critics and fans the film is often cited as the best in the franchise in large part due to Cuaron s stylistic influence 47 48 The film ranks at number 471 in Empire magazine s 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time 49 Video games edit Main article Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban video game Three unique video games by different developers were released in 2004 by Electronic Arts loosely based on the book Developer Release date Platform Genre GameRankings MetacriticKnowWonder 25 May 2004 Microsoft Windows Adventure puzzle 68 52 50 67 100 51 Griptonite Game Boy Advance Role playing 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