Harry Potter

Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban

also by j. k. rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Year One at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Year Two at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Year Three at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Year Four at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Year Five at Hogwarts Harry Potter and theHalf-Blood Prince Year Six at Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Year Seven at Hogwarts

Harry Pof Azkaban otter and the Prisoner
BY

J. K. Rowling
ILLUSTRATIONS BY Mary GrandPré

ARTHUR A. LEVINE BOOKS AN IMPRINT OF SCHOLASTIC Press.

To Jill Prewett and
Aine Kiely, the GodMothers of Swing

Text copyright © 1999 by J.K. Rowling Illustrations by Mary GrandPré copyright ©1999 Warner Bros. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Press, a division of Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920. scholastic, scholastic press, and the lantern logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. harry potter and all related characters and elements are trademarks of Warner Bros. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / by J.K. Rowling. p. cm. Sequel to: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Summary: During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. ISBN 0-439-13635-0 [1. Wizards—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. England—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.R79835Ham 1999 [Fie]—dc21 99-23982 60 5958 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 Printed in the U.S.A. 12 First American edition, October 1999

Contents
Owl Post · 1 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake · 16 The Knight Bus · 31 The Leaky Cauldron · 49 The Dementor · 69 Talons and Tea Leaves · 96 The Boggart in the Wardrobe · 123 Flight of the Fat Lady · 141

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THREE FOUR FIVE SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT
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Contents
Grim Defeat · 162 TheMarauder’s Map · 183 The Firebolt · 211 The Patronus · 233 Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw · 252 Snape’s Grudge · 269 The Quidditch Final · 291 Professor Trelawney’s Prediction · 314 Cat, Rat, and Dog · 332

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ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN
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Contents
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs · 349 The Servant of Lord Voldemort · 358 The Dementor’s Kiss· 378

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE
Hermione’s Secret · 386 Owl Post Again · 416

TWENTY-TWO

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Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban

CHAPTER ONE

OWL POST

H

arry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework but was forced to doit in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard. It was nearly midnight, and he was lying on his stomach in bed, the blankets drawn right over his head like a tent, a flashlight in one hand and a large leather-bound book (A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot) propped open against the pillow. Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as helooked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.” The quill paused at the top of a likely-looking paragraph. Harry pushed his round glasses up the bridge of his nose, moved his flashlight closer to the book, and read:

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CHAPTER ONE
Non-magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid...