Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Original title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ) is the third volume in the Harry Potter book series by Joanne K. Rowling . It was published in the UK in July 1999 with an initial circulation of 240,000. The German edition was published by Carlsen Verlag in August 1999 and has 448 pages. As for all other German-language Harry Potter volumes, Klaus Fritz arranged the translation and Sabine Wilharm designed the cover.
The third volume sold an estimated 55 million copies and was 2004 by the Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón filmed .
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The sorcerer's apprentice Harry Potter spends his summer holidays like every year with his only relatives, the Muggles of the Dursley family, who treat him badly. In the coming school year at Hogwarts Magic School , Harry's grade will be allowed to visit the nearby wizarding village of Hogsmeade for the first time . To do this, Harry has to have his guardian, the nasty Uncle Vernon Dursley , sign the permission form , who makes this dependent on Harry's good behavior during the summer vacation. During the visit of Aunt Magda , Vernon's sister, she criticizes Harry and also insults his father James Potter , which causes Harry so upset that he can no longer control his magical powers and makes Magda swell into a balloon. Not only does he get the wrath of the Dursleys, but he also has to fear expulsion from school, as this is Harry's second offense against the ban on sorcery by minors outside of school.
Leaving the Dursley's house, walking aimlessly through the streets, he encounters a large, black, dangerous-looking dog. When he recoils, he trips and falls into the street. Thereupon appears The Driving Knight , a magical bus that transports stranded wizards and witches to any destination. This takes him to London, to the Leaky Cauldron , a magician's accommodation at the entrance to Diagon Alley . There, to his surprise, Harry is welcomed by the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge , who has already had his mishap undone and does not intend to punish him. In addition, Harry is allowed to spend the rest of the summer vacation in the Leaky Cauldron and, at Fudge's request, only leave it for errands in Diagon Alley.
Shortly before school starts, the family of his best school friend Ron Weasley arrives at the Leaky Cauldron . Harry learns the reason for the friendliness of Fudge through a quarrel between Arthur and his wife Molly Weasley: The convicted mass murderer Sirius Black has broken out of the wizarding prison Azkaban to what is believed to kill Harry Potter. Black is believed to have committed a mass murder of Muggles and another wizard as a suspected supporter of Lord Voldemort in revenge for his case.
At the beginning of the school year, there are significantly more stringent safety precautions. On the way to school, the Hogwarts Express stops and is searched by Dementors . These evoke the worst memories of people in their immediate vicinity, which is why Harry is particularly badly affected: He witnesses the killing of his parents again and collapses. The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher , Professor Lupine, drives out the Dementors.
Hermione uses a time turner with special permission from the Ministry, with the help of which she can attend several parallel lessons one after the other, which Harry and Ron do not know about. Hagrid is in his first lesson as a new teacher Hippogriffs ago. The hippogriff Buckbeak attacks Draco Malfoy , whereupon Draco's father Lucius ensures that Buckbeak is sentenced to death by the Ministry.
Since Harry cannot show the permission of his legal guardian, he is not allowed to take part in the excursion to Hogsmeade like the other students. For the second Hogsmeade excursion, however, Fred and George Weasley give Harry the Marauder's map as a present. As it turns out, this map was once created by four students, the Marauders. With the help of the map he gets to Hogsmeade through a secret passage. In the Drei Besen he overhears a conversation and learns that Sirius Black is his godfather and is said to have betrayed his parents to Voldemort. There is growing evidence that Black is near Hogwarts. Eventually Black gets into school and even breaks into the Gryffindor Dormitory.
Harry falls from a great height during a Quidditch game when Dementors appear over the field and he passes out again. Professor Lupine then teaches Harry how to use the Patronus charm to protect himself against dementors.
Harry's last excursion to Hogsmeade is betrayed to Professor Snape by Draco Malfoy, whom Harry attacked at the Howling Shack camouflaged under the Invisibility Cloak. Snape calls in Lupine to investigate the incident, and Lupine takes the Marauders card.
Hermione's cat Crookshanks has been trying to catch Ron's rat scabies since the beginning of the school year. As a half- knee , Crookshanks feels that something is wrong with the scabies rat. After Sirius Black breaks into the Gryffindor dormitory, Scabies disappears and Ron suspects Crookshanks to have eaten the rat.
Harry and his friends want to help Hagrid during Buckbeak's execution and find Scabies in Hagrid's hut and take him back with them. On the way back to the castle, Ron is attacked by the big black dog that Harry has already observed during the summer vacation and is dragged through a secret passage under the Whomping Willow into the Howling Hut , whereby Ron is injured in the leg. There the dog transforms back into Sirius Black, who is an Animagus. Sirius doesn't want to kill Harry, but Peter Pettigrew disguised as Scabies .
Professor Lupine recognizes on the Marauders map where Harry, Ron and Hermione are, and that a fourth person is with them. He rushes to their aid. Black and Lupine, old school friends of Harry's father James, make up. Each believed the other was Voldemort's spy. Sirius and Remus force Scabies back into human. Harry learns that the truth is that Peter Pettigrew, aka Scabies, is a secret supporter of Voldemort. At that time he was also part of the Potters' close circle of friends. Pettigrew, in his capacity as Keeper of Secrets, revealed the whereabouts of Harry's parents to Voldemort. The traitor knew how to put the blame for what happened on Halloween 1981 into the shoes of Sirius Black, who had caught him. Harry eventually prevents Sirius from taking revenge on Peter in order to achieve Sirius' rehabilitation.
The Marauder's card turns out to be a “prank” of those four former school friends.
On the way back to the castle, Lupine turns into a werewolf by the full moon and fights with Sirius, who takes on his dog form. In the mess, Pettigrew escapes again. Black is captured and taken to the castle for the time being. The Minister of Magic decides to have the Dementors suck his soul. On Dumbledore's advice, Harry and Hermione use the Time Turner to travel three hours back in time. They first save Buckbeak from his execution and fly with him to the castle, where they free Sirius Black shortly before the arrival of the Dementors. Sirius Black flees with Buckbeak and takes himself to safety.
Harry is happy to have found a kind of father figure in Sirius, but has to continue to live with the Dursleys during the holidays, as Sirius - as a fugitive criminal - cannot offer him a home.
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English editions
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury Publishing , London 1999, ISBN 0-7475-4215-5 . (Hardback edition)
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury Publishing , London (1999) / 2014, ISBN 978-1-4088-5567-6 . (Paperback edition)
German editions
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Carlsen Verlag , Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-55169-3 . (Hardcover) (for 2 weeks in 2002 at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list )
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-551-55210-X . (Hardcover for adults)
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-551-35403-0 . (Paperback)
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3551559036 . (Hardcover with illustrations by Jim Kay)
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-55743-8 . (New hardback edition for the 20th anniversary of the German editions)
Audio books
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The Hörverlag , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89584-703-8 . (Audiobook read by Rufus Beck )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ HowStuffWorks.com Ed Grabianowski: The 21 Best-selling Books of All Time. Retrieved June 9, 2015