J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
OWL POST/AUNT MARGE’S BIG MISTAKE/THE KNIGHT BUS
Harry receives letters from his friends. He receives a Monster Book of Monsters from Hagrid and a letter from Hogwarts saying that 3rd years may visit the village of Hogsmeade with the permission of a guardian. Harry is not hopeful about that
Uncle Vernon’s sister Marge visits and if Harry behaves he agrees to sign the form
Aunt Marge stays for a week and provokes Harry
He inflates her after she makes untrue and disrespectful comments about his father
Harry leaves the Dursleys
All alone outside in the night and with no Muggle money, Harry sits and sees a big black creature which disappears as fast as it appeared
All of a sudden a bus called the Knight Bus appears and stops in front of Harry
Harry gets on the bus. He learns about an escaped Azkaban convict named Sirius Black from the paper that the conductor is reading
The story is that Sirius Black was a follower of Voldemort who murdered 13 people twelve years ago right before he was detained and imprisoned after Voldemort’s fall
Once Harry gets to the Leaky Cauldron, Cornelius Fudge talks to him
Fudge tells him that the magic on his aunt Marge has been reversed and Harry is not being expelled for the accident
He stays at the Leaky Cauldron for 2 weeks
LEAKY CAULDRON/THE DEMENTOR
Harry buys his books and runs into Ron and Hermione
In the Leaky Cauldron Harry overhears Mr. and Mrs. Weasley talking about Sirius Black and that he’s after Harry and that Azkaban guards have been placed around Hogwarts
Before Harry gets on the Express, Mr. Weasley takes him aside to tell him about Black which Harry tells him he already knows. Mr. Weasley asks Harry not to go looking for Black
Harry tells the other two what he overheard
On the train they share a compartment with ragged-looking wizard whose name they figure is R.J. Lupin by the name on his briefcase and must be the new DADA teacher
Out of nowhere the train stops and the lights go out
A hooded creature with grey hands appears and it suddenly becomes very cold. Harry hears screaming and blacks out then regains consciousness
Lupin gives Harry a piece of chocolate and tell him it’ll help. Harry asks what it was and Lupin tells him it’s called a Dementor from Azkaban
Lupin made it disappear with a spell
They make it to Hogwarts. At the feast Dumbledore announces that the school is hosting Dementors under jurisdiction from the Ministry
Dumbledore confirms that Lupin is the new DADA teacher. Snape does not look pleased at all
Dumbledore announces that Hagrid is the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher hence why he sent Harry the monster book of monsters
TALONS AND TEA LEAVES
Harry and Ron go to Divination class and meet Professor Trelawney
While reading Harry’s teacup, Trew sees the shape of a dog from the tea dregs and says it is The Grim, an omen of death
Harry thinks back to the black creature he saw which resembled a dog
Mcgonagall makes her opinion known about Divination during Transfiguration class and how she thinks it’s a imprecise branch of magic
Ron is scared for Harry when Harry says he saw the dog
They go to their first Care of Magical Creatures Class
Hagrid presents Hippogriffs (gryffins)
Harry volunteers to approach one by staring it in the eye and bowing and waiting for it to bow back
Harry goes for a short flight on a Hippogriff named Buckbeak
Malfoy gets injured after provoking Buckbeak
They are worried Hagrid will be sacked (fired)
While seeing Hagrid around dark while he’s drunk, he yells at the trio after sobering up and tells them he’s not worth the danger
THE BOGGART
In Potions class Seamus Finnigan tells Harry that Muggles think they’ve seen Sirius Black
Malfoy teases Harry by telling him that he’d want revenge on Black if he was Harry but Harry doesn’t know what he means
In Lupin’s DADA class he teaches them about Boggarts which are creatures that have no form until they show themselves to someone and take the form of whatever it is they fear most
To counter Boggarts, it’s weakness is laughter so they must imagine something funny in their minds and say Riddikulus which will turn the Boggart into whatever funny thing is being thought of
The Boggart turns into several things and when it comes to Harry’s turn who fears Dementors, Lupin steps in
FLIGHT OF THE FAT LADY
Harry asks Mcgonagall for permission to go to Hogsmeade - she denies permission because she is not a parent or guardian
He talks to Professor Lupin about why he stopped Harry’s Boggart and Lupin tells him he assumed it would turn into Voldemort
Snape enters the room they’re in and gives Lupin a potion. Lupin tells Harry it’s to help him fell better because Lupin has been looking ill lately
The Gryffindors return to the portrait of the Fat Lady to find her missing and her portrait slashed. Dumbledore arrives and Peeves, the school poltergeist, tells him she’s in shock and that it was Sirius Black who attacked the portrait in a fit of rage after she wouldn’t let him in
GRIM DEFEAT
All the students sleep in the Great Hall for protection
Snape suspects that someone let Black in but Dumbledore believes that no one would help Black in
The Fat Lady is replaced with Sir Cadogan
Mcgonagall is about to tell Harry that Black is after him but Harry tells her he already knows
Harry is late to DODA and sees that Snape is teaching the class because Lupin is ill. The trio had suggested prior that Snape poisoned him with the potion
Snape teaches them about werewolves but is not supposed to as that is the last chapter in the textbook
During a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, Harry sees the Grim in the sky- the silhouette of a black dog
Harry goes unconscious after feeling cold and hearing his mother scream after coming close to a hundred Dementors
He wakes up in the hospital wing to find out Gryffindor lost the match and the Hufflepuff seeker and captain Cedric Diggory caught the Snitch
Dumbledore saved Harry from hitting the ground
Ron and Hermione tell Harry that his Nimbus 2000 fell onto the Whomping Willow and broke it into pieces
THE MARAUDERS MAP
Harry is paranoid about the Grim now because it almost got him twice- the Knight Bus appearing after he saw it and almost running him over and the quidditch match
After a DADA class, Harry asks Lupin why he faints from the dementors and Lupin tells him it’s nothing to do with weakness but because Harry has had horrors in his life which no one else has had
Harry asks Lupin to teach him how to defend against dementors and Lupin says he will after the holidays
Fred and George bequeath an enchanted piece of parchment that turns into a map after a specific phrase is spoken to Harry. it shows every living creature in Hogwarts and where they are. It also shows every hidden passage. 7 in all, including ones that lead to Hogsmeade
Harry takes a secret path of which the entrance is inside a statue of a one-eyed witch and takes it all the way to a sweet shop called Honeydukes in Hogsmeade
Harry has to hide when he’s at Three Broomsticks with Ron and Hermione and professors Flitwick, Mcgonagall, Hagrid, and Cornelius Fudge enter
Harry overhears them say that Black was James Potter’s best friend
The Potters made Black their Secret-Keeper by way of the Fidelius Charm-magic that involves storing a secret inside a person that can not be divulged unless the secret keeper spoke
Dumbledore suspected someone close to the Potters was telling Voldemort about their movements
Black betrayed the Potters at the 11th hour and it was him who gave Hagrid the flying motorbike when Hagrid dropped Harry off at the Dursleys
Another friend of the Potters, Peter Pettigrew went after Black who murdered him
Black has managed to somehow stay sane while in Azkaban and shows no remorse
The trio are in shock from what they’ve just heard
THE FIREBOLT/THE PATRONUS
Ron and Hermione are hoping that Harry doesn’t look for Black to get revenge
They visit Hagrid and he tells them he’s been summoned to a hearing regarding the attack of Buckbeak on Malfoy by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures
Harry receives a a Firebolt broomstick for Christmas from anonymous
Hermione is skeptical about the broom because of an unidentified sender
Mcgonagall confiscates the broom because both she and Hermione suspect it might’ve been sent by Black and might be cursed with jinxes
Lupin teaches Harry the Patronus charm which is conjured by thinking of a happy memory and speaking the words expecto patronum. A sort of shield is conjured which only contains positive emotions and no negativity hence the dementors cannot feed off it
Harry tried a few times but the memories he uses aren’t strong enough
Harry produces a silvery wisp out of his wand but it isn’t strong enough and Lupin stops the lesson there
Harry asks if he knew Sirius Black since his father did as well and Lupin affirms it as both were friend with James
Lupin explains the dementors kiss which is where they connect mouth to mouth and suck out the soul of a person leaving them a vegetable
Harry learns that is Black’s sentence and says he deserves it
Harry gets his Firebolt back
GRYFFINDOR VS RAVENCLAW/SNAPE’S GRUDGE
After Ron finds what is suggested to be Scabbers remains and bloodstains on his bedsheets, he blames Hermione’s cat Crookshanks. She says he can’t prove it so Ron becomes furious with her and their friendship is put in jeopardy
Harry wins the Quidditch match against Ravenclaw are now first in running for the Quidditch cup
Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and Slytherin captain Marcus Flint all get in trouble by Mcgonagall for attempting to sabotage Harry by dressing as dementors. Harry used the patronus charm on them
Ron wakes up after apparently seeing Sirius Black standing over him with a knife as he’s in bed.
Mcgonagall confirms with Sir Cadogan who replaced the Fat Lady, that he let a man in because he had the week’s password on paper
It was Neville who left the passwords lying around
Snape questions Harry after Malfoy told him he saw Harry’s floating head in Hogsmeade (wearing the invisibility cloak)
Snape provokes Harry by saying his father was exceedingly arrogant and that they’re very alike
Harry tells Snape he knows his dad saved his life. Snape tells Harry it was a practical joke that would’ve claimed Snape’s life had not James Potter relented
Snape tells Harry to turn his pockets out and finds the marauder’s map. He attempts to reveal the secrets only to have the creators of the map (Moony Wormtail Padfoot and Prongs) insult him
Snape consults with Lupin since it could be dark magic but Ron arrives to tell Snape it was a product of the joke shop Zonko’s as a cover
Lupin takes Ron’s word and Snape is furious but also tells Harry and Ron that he knows it’s a map and is shocked Harry didn’t turn it in after Neville losing the passwords. He can’t let Harry have it back
He tells Harry that his actions were careless and thought that the effect of the dementors would make him respect his parents’ sacrifice and value his life more
Hermione tells them Buckbeak is to be executed
THE QUIDDITCH FINAL/PROFESSOR TRELAWNEY’S PREDICTION
Hermione slaps Malfoy across the face after he gloats about Hagrid’s despair
Hermione makes a mockery of Professor Trelawney in Divinations when Trel looks into Harry’s crystal ball and sees the grim getting closer. Trel says her mind is Mundane and Hermione leaves class
Harry sees the grim and crookshanks together on the school grounds the morning before the match
Harry catches the snitch and win against Slytherin for the Quidditch Cup
On the day of the last exams, Buckbeak’s appeal is also happening. Cornelius Fudge arrives, along with an executioner
During Divination exam, Lawney foretells that the servant of Voldemort will rejoin him and help bring him back to power
The trio goes to Hagrid’s hoping to keep him company during the execution but they’re forced to leave. Buckbeak is beheaded
While they were in Hagrid’s hut, Hermione finds Scabbers who looks very thin
CAT, RAT, DOG
As they head towards the castle, Scabbers bites Ron’s hand in fear and flees as Crookshanks appears from the dark and chases him
The grim also appears and drags Ron by his leg down into a hole beneath the base of the Whomping Willow
Harry and Hermione follow and slide down the hole after Crookshanks pulls a knot on the tree that immobilizes it
They travel down a long tunnel and realize they’ve reached the Shrieking Shack
They find Ron and Crookshanks in a room. Ron’s leg is badly hurt
The grim is Sirius Black who is an animagus
Harry and Black wrestle on the floor as Harry tried to hurt him. Black chokes him and tells him only one will die tonight and that he’s waited too long
After Hermione kicks Black, Harry manages to get his wand back which Black had disarmed with Ron’s wand. He points it at Black determined to kill him
Black doesn’t deny killing Harry’s parents but tells him to hear out the whole story
Someone else enters the shack. it is Lupin who disarms Harry again
He helps Sirius up which utterly shocks everyone. Hermione accuses him of helping Black get into the castle and wanting Harry dead. She also reveals that he’s a werewolf
Lupin confirms that he is a werewolf but denies helping Black and wanting Harry dead
Hermione reveals she figured it out after he was always ill during full moons and his boggart becoming a moon
Lupin tells them the staff at the school all know. Lupin give them all back their wands and Harry asks him how he knew where to find Black if he’s not helping him of which Lupin answers he used the map. He reveals he’s Moony and helped create it
Lupin had a feeling that the trio would visit Hagrid because because of the execution and looked them up but then saw Black drag Ron into shrieking shack
He asks Ron if he could look at the rat and both he and Black tell Ron that Scabbers is an animagus named Peter Pettigrew
MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT AND PRONGS
Lupin and Black begin their explanation
It all begins apparently with Lupin becoming cursed to transform into a werewolf. The Whomping Willow was planted for him so he could transform in the shack and not harm anyone
The potion that he takes from Snape is to help him stay sane while in the transformed state
While he was at Hogwarts, Lupin’s friends Peter, Sirius, and James all became animagi to keep Lupin company. Werewolves are only a threat to humans
The four friends wrote the Marauders Map- Wormtail is Pettigrew, Padfoot is Black, and Prongs is James
Lupin did not tell Dumbledore that Black is an animagi because it would’ve meant confessing that he broke Dumbledore’s trust while he was at Hogwarts and revealing he influenced his friends to become illegal unregistered animagi and sneaking out with them
Lupin reveals Snape was at Hogwarts with them and Black played a trick on him which involved Lupin because he was sneaking around trying to get them in trouble. James saved Snape’s life at the risk of his own. Snape saw Lupin as a werewolf and was forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anyone
THE SERVANT OF LORD VOLDEMORT
Snape arrives and surprises everyone. He tells Lupin he’d forgotten to take his potion so he went to check on him and saw him heading towards the Whompin Willow on the map. He uses Harry’s invisibility cloak to sneak up on them
Snape tells Lupin and Black they’ll be served to the dementors. Harry uses expelliarmus to knock him out when Snape tries to leave with a bounded Lupin and Black at wandpoint
Ron asks Black how he knows Scabbers is Pettigrew and Black tells him he recognizes him by how many times he’s transformed plus the missing finger on Scabbers’ front paw. Pettigrew had cut off his own finger and killed 12 people with a wand behind his back and blamed Sirius
He saw a photo of Scabbers on the Daily Prophet where it shows the Weasleys in Egypt visiting Bill Weasley
Scabbers has been losing weight and looking unhealthy ever since Black escaped Azkaban
Crookshanks knew Scabbers wasn’t a rat and knew Black wasn’t an actual dog and has been helping Black trying to get Scabbers
Lupin and Black transform Peter using wands
Black tells him that Voldemort’s followers think he’s a betrayer for sending Voldemort to the Potters and then lost his powers
If his followers knew Pettigrew was alive they’d question him
Hermione says that if Pettigrew really was a follower of Voldemort why hasn’t he hurt Harry
Black answers it’s because there was nothing in it for Pettigrew and was comfortably safe in the hands of a magic family
Black reveals he survived in Azkaban because he knew he was innocent and transformed into the dog which the dementors sensed as non-human
Black says he would’ve died before betraying Lily and James and Harry finally believes him
Pettigrew admits he betrayed the Potter or Voldemort would have killed him
Lupin and Sirius prepare to kill Pettigrew
Harry stops them because he knows his dad wouldn’t have wanted his friends to become murderers. He tells them to save Pettigrew for Azkaban and the dementors
Everyone leaves the shrieking shack together. Sirius levitates Snape’s body out
THE DEMENTORS KISS/HERMIONE’S SECRET
Sirius tells Harry he’s his godfather and if Pettigrew is turned in he’ll be free
Sirius offers Harry to live with him after he is cleared
There is a full moon in the sky as the group walks out onto the grounds. Lupin transforms into a werewolf as Sirius transforms into the dog and holds him back as they fight each other
Harry follows Sirius to the lake as he limps woundedly. A hundred dementors attack them both and Harry’s feeble patronus isn’t enough to stop one. He feels himself growing very weak
Out of nowhere a huge light penetrates the dementors and Harry thinks he sees a bright unicorn on the other side and someone who looks familiar to him. He faints
Harry wakes in the hospital wing where he was brought by Snape along with Hermione and Ron
He finds out that Sirius is going to be given the dementors kiss
He tries to explain to Fudge that Sirius is innocent but Snape tells him they were given a confundus charm by Black to confuse them
Dumbledore arrives and says he’s spoken to Sirius. He believes his innocence but says what they need is time
Hermione understands and puts something around Harry’s neck that she’s also wearing. Out of nowhere everything blurs around Harry and it is suddenly daylight
Hermione explains that the necklace is a time turner and is how she’s been able to do multiple classes at the same time all year
They turned it 3 times to go back in time 3 hours
They realize they must save Buckbeak to fly him up to one of the towers and free Sirius
Harry unties Buckbeak and takes him into the Forbidden Forest as Cornelius Fudge reads Buckbeak’s sentence
The executioner and minister leave
They all wait in the forest until everyone emerges from the whomping willow
Harry tells Hermiones that the figure he thought he saw conjure the powerful patronus was his dad
Harry waits for his dad to arrive and conjure the patronus but realizes it was himself. He conjures it and it takes the shape of a stag
They watch Snape take the other Harry and Ron and Hermione as well as Sirius into the castle
As they watch the executioner Macnair go to fetch the dementors for Sirius, they fly Buckbeak up to where he’s imprisoned and free him
Sirius says he’ll see Harry again
OWL POST AGAIN
Snape is furious about the outcome. Fudge is embarrassed about not just losing Black but Buckbeak as well
Hagrid is happy that Buckbeak escaped and tells the trio that Snape told the Slytherins that Lupin is a werewolf
Lupin packs his things preparing to leave. He gives Harry his cloak he left on the grounds and the map back
Harry speaks with Dumbledore about not making a difference but Dumbledore tells him he saved an innocent man from a terrible fate
Harry realizes that Lawney’s prediction about the servant of Voldemort rejoining him was true
Dumbledore affirms that that makes her predictions true twice now
Dumbledore also says that saving a wizard’s life creates a sort of magical bond hence Peter Peter Pettigrew maybe saving Harry’s life in the future
On the train ride home, Harry receives a letter from Sirius confirming that he sent the Firebolt and he plans to allow muggles to see him to raise security at Hogwarts
He also gets Sirius’ permission to visit Hogsmeade as that will be good enough for Dumbledore
Sirius allows Ron to keep the owl that brought the letter to make up for Scabbers
Harry tells Uncle Vernon that his godfather is a convicted murderer on the loose