Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won the 1999 Whitbread Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other awards, including the Hugo. A film based on the novel was released on 31 May 2004, in the United Kingdom and 4 June 2004 in the U.S. and many other countries. This is the only novel in the series that does not feature Lord Voldemort in some form.
For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.
As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works.
Chapter 1 Owl Post
Chapter 2 Aunt Marge's Big Mistake
Chapter 3 The Knight Bus
Chapter 4 The Leaky Cauldron
Chapter 5 The Dementor
Chapter 6 Talons and Tea Leaves
Chapter 7 The Boggart in the Wardrobe
Chapter 8 Flight of the Fat Lady
Chapter 9 Grim Defeat
Chapter 10 The Marauder's Map
Chapter 11 The Firebolt
Chapter 12 The Patronus
Chapter 13 Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw
Chapter 14 Snape's Grudge
Chapter 15 The Quidditch Final
Chapter 16 Professor Trelawney's Prediction
Chapter 17 Cat, Rat, and Dog
Chapter 18 Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Chapter 19 The Servant of Lord Voldemort
Chapter 20 The Dementor's Kiss
Chapter 21 Hermione's Secret
Chapter 22 Owl Post Again
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