Amanda Taylor

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My favourite book would be Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The reason is that it has a lot of unexpected twists and turns, and it’s fun to discover new things about Harry’s life at the same time he discovers them. My report is a bit long, but I just love this book and could’t leave anything out.

Harry is back at the Dursleys', on another dreaduful summer. It’s his birthday and he’s doing homework for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His uncle locked up his magical things, so he has to be quiet if he doesn’t want his realtives to find out he took his things back. Things get a little better when three owls come into his room. One is his own, which brings a present from his witch friend, Hermione. Another owl, Errol, brings a gift from his best friend Ron and a letter telling him that the Weasley’s won a Grand Prize Galleon Award. The other owl brings a letter rom his friend Hagrid and a letter from Professor McGonagall telling that the third years at Hogwarts are permitted to visit Hogsmade, the only wizard village. For that, he needs a signed permission from a parent or guardian.

Next morning his Uncle Vernon announces that they will have a visit from his sister Marge. Harry hears a news report about an escaped convict, Sirius Black,who is armed and extremeley dangerous. Harry asks him for permission to attend Hogsmade. He says that if he acts normally on the visit today and sticks to the story saying that he’s from St. Brutus's Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys, he will sign the permission slip. Aunt Marge arrives. She starts humiliating Harry by berating him. The next day Harry suffers more of Marge's dislike for him, only restraining himself by thinking of Hogsmeade. On the final evening of Marge's stay she starts saying cruel things about Harry's parents. Aunt Marge's insults get worse and Harry snaps. He causes his Aunt Marge to start swelling like a balloon, drifting up in the air. In anger, Harry takes his trunk from the cupboard, takes his stuff from his room and flees from the house.

Harry realises that he had just broken the Decree for the Restriction of Underage Wizardry and he is sure he will be expelled. Trying to decide what to do he feels himself being watched. He sees a big figure with gleaming eyes. Stepping backwards, he trips over his trunk and at that moment The Knight Bus arrives. To not make the Ministry of Magic easy to track him, Harry pretends his name is Neville Longbottom. He figures out the bus picks up stranded wizards. Harry pays to be taken to London. The conductor of the bus talks to Harry about Sirius Black, the escapist from Azkaban prison and former supporter of Voldemort.

Harry is taken to Diagon Alley, in front of the Leaky Cauldron. Before he even has taken his trunk from the bus, he's welcomed, not apprehended, by the Minister fo Magic and taken into the Leaky Cauldron. Fudge tells Harry that the blowing up o Aunt Marge was alredy dealt with, and that he won’t recieve any punishment. Fudge doesn’t explain why. For the remaining days until school starts, Harry stays at the Leaky Cauldron. He wanders about Diagon Alley, in and out of stores, watching people buying and eating in the ice-cream parlour. He took out money from Gringotts, and is tempted to buy the Firebolt, the best flying broom. He buys his school supplies and find out about two new school subjects: Care of Magical Creatures and Divination. On a books store, he looks in a book about Death Omens a large black dog that looks oddly familiar.

On the last day of holidays he meets with Ronand Hermione, which has three bags of books; she will have more subjects then Ron and Harry. She also buys a cat which attacked Ron’s rat in the magical-creature shop. On the last evening, Harry overhears a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Weasley about him. They are talking about the fact that Sirius Black is presumed to be after Harry and whether or not Harry should know about this. The next morning they leave to King’s Cross and Mr. Weasley tells Harry about Black and makes him promise that he won’t go looking fro him. In their compartment, they find Professor Lupin, the new Defence Agains the Dark Arts Professor, sleeping. They talk about Hogsmade, which Harry can’t visit for his lack of permission.

They are nearly at Hogwarts when the train stops and the lights go out. Professor Lupin wakes up. A cloaked figure enters the compartment. An intense cold sweeps over Harry, he drowns in coldness, he hears screaming, and passes out. No one else heard the screams he heard. Lupin explains it was the effect of the cloaked figured which entered; a Dementor, a guard from Azkaban.

The train continues and they arrive at Hogwarts, being welcomed by Hagrid. There are more Dementors guarding the entrances. They are called by McGonagall to talk about the Dementors and to check Harry. Then Harry and Ron leave, and Hermione is left to talk with the Professor. Arriving in the Great Hall, Dumbledore adresses the students about the Dementors, telling that nobody is to leave school without permission. He also announces Lupin as the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher and the retirement of the Care of Magical Creatures teacher Professor Kettleburn. Hagrid will be teaching that course.

On the first day of school, Draco is heard mocking Harry's fainting on the train at the Slytherin table. Ron notices the apparent mixup in Hermione's timetable, having three classes at the same time, but Hermione says it's all fixed with Professor McGonagall. Harry, Hermione and Ron set out for their first Divination class at the top of North Tower. The teacher is Professor Sybill Trelawney. This term, they will be learning to read tea leaves, next term they will start palmistry. Later on, they will progress to fire-omens and the crystall ball. She scares them with all kind of warnings and events, regarding the future. She says Harry has the Grim, the giant, spectral dog that haunts churchyards; an omen of death. Harry remembers the dog on the cover of Death Omens in Flourish and Blotts and the dog in Magnolia Crescent. The whole class is upset by the prediction of Harry's death. The Professor McGonagall tells them in her class that Prof. Trelawney predicts death to many students and that everything is rubbish. Then she talks about Animagi, people that can transform into animals.

In the afternoon they have their first Care of Magical Creatures class, taught by Hagrid. He shows them Hippogriffs, creatures with the body, hind legs and tail of a horse, but with the front legs, wings and head of a giant eagle. The way to deal with them is to never insult them; bow to them and if they bow back you are allowed to touch them. Harry volunteers to try first with a Hippogriff called Buckbeak. He bows, it bows back and Hagrid has Harry ride it. After flying around the paddock once they head back to the ground. Next the rest of the class does the same. Malfoy insults Buckbeak and is attacked by it. He has to go to the Hospital wing to have his arm taken care of. Hagrid is afraid he might get fired.

Malfoy does not show up for classes until the next Potions class with Professor Snape, which puts Harry and Ron to do Malfoy’s work. Seamus Finnigan tells Harry that Back has been spotted near Hogwarts and Draco tells Harry to go looking for him. Next they have Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Lupin. He leads them to the staff-room. Inside the wardrobe there's a Boggart. They're shape-shifters who can take the shape of whatever they think will frighten people most. The charm that repels a Boggart is laughter, accompanied by the Riddikulus Spell. Neville is the first one to confront the Boggart, which turns itself into Professor Snape at seeing Neville. Neville charms it into his grandmother's clothes. The Boggart continues to the next person, and so on. As it is about to confront Harry, Lupin hurries forward and it turns into a silvery white orb. It turns into Snape again and Neville finishes the Boggart off. Harry and Hermione hadn't confronted the Boggart.

In no time at all, Defense Against the Dark Arts becomes everyone's favourite class. Professor Snape is giving them a hard time. Harry is not fond of Professor Trelawney's classes, Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown loved her classes more then anyone. In Hagrid's classes they now were only spending their lessons looking after Flobberworms. There's one thing to look forward to, Quidditch is about to start again. Oliver Wood is telling the team it will be his last year, his last chance to win the Quidditch Cup. After returning from Quidditch practice one day, Harry hears that first Hogsmeade weekend will be at Halloween. Harry will not be allowed to go, since he has no written permission.

After the next Transfiguration lesson, Lavender Brown is crying about her dead bunny, as Trelawney had predicted. After Transfiguration class, Professor asks the students to hand in their written permission. Harry asks her if he can go anyway without the written permission but the answer is no.

On Halloween, after seeing the the other students off, Harry wanders around a bit. He is suddenly called by Professor Lupin. They start talking and Harry asks him why he didn't let him confront the Boggart. Lupin explains he was afraid it would turn into Voldemort and that would scare the other students. Harry says it probably would have turned into a Dementor. Professor Snape comes in bringing a potion for Lupin. The rest of the class returns from Hogsmeade. Ron brings a lot of sweets for Harry and tells him about the trip. At night there's the Halloween dinner. After dinner they return back to the Gryffindor common room but cannot enter, as the Fat Lady has fled from her painting, which was slashed by someone. Peeves, who saw her running through paintings on the fourth floor, tells them that she said it was Sirius Black who did it. Dumbledore orders the whole castle to be searched, to see if Black is still around. The students have to sleep in the Great Hall. The next days, students keep speculating about how Black managed to get into Hogwarts. Sir Cadogan has been appointed to take the Fat Lady's place for a while. Wood announces to the team they will play Hufflepuff instead of Slytherin at next Quidditch match. Hufflepuff has a new captain and Seeker, Cedric Diggory, a tall and good- looking fifth year.

Harry is late for Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. Entering the classroom, he finds out Professor Snape is teaching. Snape starts with a subject from the end of their lesson-book; one which they're not supposed to do yet. He teaches them about Werewolves. Hermione, wanting to give the answer, is silenced by Snape. Ron abrubtly defies Snape and is given detention.

The day of the Quidditch match against Hufflepuff arrives. Harry is up on his Nimbus Two Thousand, as the game starts. It is raining very hard and Wood calls a timeout. Harry complains he can't see a thing through his glasses with this rain, and Hermione charms it with a Impervius spell, making it repel water. The game continues. Suddenly he sees the Black Dog again. Wood spots Cedric going for the Snitch and Harry goes after it also. An then a horribly familiar wave of cold sweeps over him. He looks down and sees at least a hundred Dementors below him. He hears a conversation and screaming inside his head ... a woman pleading with a man not to kill Harry but her instead. Harry hears a shrill voice laughing, the woman screaming, and then he faints.

Harry regains consiousness in the Hospital wing. Diggory got the snitch just after Harry fell; he didn't realise what had happened. His Nimbus Two Thousand was blown away when he fell. After it hit the Whomping Willow, it completely destroyed it. Harry has to stay in the hospital wing the rest of the weekend. He is worried about having seen the Grim two times now. He also realises what the screaming voices inside his head were; the last moments of his mother's life before Voldemort killed her.

After Defence Against the Dark Arts, Lupin wants a word with Harry. He feels sorry for Harry having lost his broomstick. Lupin explains the Dementors affect Harry more then other people because he has horrors in his past that others do not. Dementors feed on people's peace, hope and happiness, draining it out of them, untill their victim is reduced to something souless and evil. Harry asks Lupin to teach him how to fight the Dementors.

At the day of the Hogsmeade trip, Harry says goodbye to Ron and Hermione and starts to head back to Gryffindor tower when he is stopped by Fred and George. They give him an 'early christmas present'. It looks like an old parchment. They explain that they stole it from one of Filch's filing cabinets drawers marked 'Confiscated and Highly Dangerous'. They show Harry how it works. Lines and words begin to appear. On the parchment there's written "Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present "The Marauder's Map". The map shows every detail of Hogwarts, including people in the castle and secret passages, one leading right into Hogsmeade. From the seven passages, Filch knows four. One is caved in. One has the Whomping Willow right over it's entrance and one of them leads right into the cellar of Honeydukes.

Harry decides to use the map to go to Hogsmeade. He enters the last passage through a statue of the one-eyed witch. After a long time he reaches the end of the passage. Through a trapdoor he enters the cellar of Honeydukes. Quickly Harry gets up the stairs into Honeydukes. The store is loaded with sweets. Harry goes to Hermione and Ron and tells them all about the Marauder's Map. They discuss whether Harry should or should not be coming to Hogsmeade with Black being loose. Then they go to the Three Broomsticks.

They go to sit in the back of the room and drink Butterbeer. Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Hagrid and Cornelius Fudge enter and walk towards them. Because they shouldn't find out Harry is there, Hermione charms a Christmas tree with to move in front of them, blocking the view. The go and sit at the table next to theirs . Madam Rosmerta brings their drinks, and they start talking about Black. Harry hears McGonagall tell the others that Black and his father, James Potter, used to be inseparable, best friends. They even named him godfather to Harry. When Voldemort was after the Potters, Dumbledore told them to go into hiding. The Potters then used an immensly complex spell, the Fidelius Charm. Using the this charm, the secret information of the whereabouts of the Potters would be hidden inside Black, the Secret-Keeper, and as long as the he refused to speak, they were safe.A week after the Fidelius Charm had been performed, his parents were betrayed. They were found and killed by Voldemort.

Hagrid remembers taking Harry from the ruins of the house, just after Harry's parents were killed. Sirius Black turned up a bit later on his flying motorbike. Hagrid hadn't known Black was the traitor. Fortunately he had orders from Dumbledore to bring Harry to the Dursleys when Black offered to look after Harry. The day after his parents death, Black killed Pettigrew, who was their friend and wanted revenge for killing James Potter. Fudge said he saw Black kill a bunch of people in front of muggles. Black was arrested and sent to Azkaban; Pettigrew received the Order of Merlin, First Class and losed a finger in the scene. The teachers leave, Harry is in shock from everything he has found out.

Harry manages to get back through the tunnel to Hogwarts. He goes straight to his room to look for pictures with Black in the photo album he got from Hagrid with pictures of his parents. He feels a undescribable hatred for Black. Having been unable to get to sleep, next day he finds out it's the first day of holiday. Ron and Hermione warn Harry not to go after Black himself. Harry tells them about how he hears his mother die every time a Dementor is near. But Ron and Hermione insist Black is too dangerous to go after himself. They decide to visit Hagrid. Hagrid is in tears. He got a letter saying Buckbeak the Hippogriff will be executed by the gargoyles at the Committee if he loses the case. The three offer to help in Buckbeak’s defense.

On Christmas morning Harry receives presents. A jumper, mince pies, christmas cake and nut brittle from Mrs. Weasley. He also gets a present from an anonymous source; a brand new broom, a Firebolt. They speculate about who might have given it to Harry. Crookshanks tries to catch Scabbers again. Harry's Sneakoscope starts whirling madly. They go back to their common room and admire the Firebolt, Professor McGonagall comes in. She confiscates the Firebolt to have it examined for jinxes. Hermione had told McGonagall about the broom because she suspected it was sent by Black. Harry and Ron are angry at Hermione. Wood seeks Harry to find out if he will be able to play in the next game.

Harry has his first Anti-Dementor lesson from Professor Lupin. Lupin uses a Boggart which will turn into a Dementor. He teaches Harry the Patronus Charm, which is a type of guardian which will act as a shield between him and the Dementor. In order to cast it, you have to be thinkig a happy thought. Harry tries it on the Boggart, shape-shifted as a Dementor. Inside his head, he hears the last moments of his mother's life again. He loses consiousness and regains it again, Lupin giving him Chocolate Frogs. He tries again, this time he hears his father also. Lupin tells Harry he used to be friends with his father. Harry has another go and this time he's able to keep stand up to the Dementor. Lupin charms it with a Riddikulus Charm and puts the Boggart back into a packing case.

Slytherin had beaten Ravenclaw at Quidditch, meaning Gryffindor still has a good shot at the Cup. Wood increases the team practices. Besides his Anti-Dementor lessons, Harry has little time left for homework. Hermione also seems to be strained by all the classes she's taking. Ron wonders how she has manages to attend all of her classes, being most of them at the same time. Anti-Dementor lessons have not shown much more progress. Lupin tells Harry about the Dementors' Kiss which they use to suck out the soul of a person. He tells Harry that this will be Black's fate when he is caught, as the Dementors have been given permision by the Ministry.

Harry get's his broom back from Professor McGonagall. Together with Ron he sets off to the common room to make up with Hermione. Everybody has gathered to admire his new broom. After a while, Ron offers to take it upstairs. While Harry is talking with Hermione, there's a yell and Ron comes down. Holding a bloodstained sheet, he tells them Scabbers is gone and he found cat hairs in his room. Ron and Hermione are enraged with each other. Harry has his final practice before the match against Ravenclaw. Oliver Wood gathers the team for instructions. He tells them Ravenclaw has a new Seeker, it's a fourth-year named Cho Chang. After the training session, Ron has a go on the Firebolt. When they finish they head toward the castle. Today is the match against Ravenclaw. Harry thinks the Seeker of Ravenclaw is very pretty. The game starts. Cho is tailing Harry. Harry sees the Snitch, goes after it, but is diverted by a Bludger. He sees it again but it vanishes quickly. The Snitch appears a third time. As Harry goes after it, there appear three Dementors on the ground which are jinxed by Harry. He catches the snitch. It turns out Draco, Crabbe and Goyle disguised themselves as Dementors to make Harry loose the game. They get punished for this by Professor McGonagall.

Gryffindor celebrates their victory. Ron and Hermione are still angry at each other. Everyone goes to sleep. Harry is awakened by a scream. Ron tells them he saw Sirius Black in their room with a knife. Sir Cadogan, who temporarily guards the entrance, confirms he let a man enter Gryffindor Tower because the man had the password. Neville confesses he lost the passwords which he had written down on paper. The castle is searched again. Sir Cadogan is sacked and the Fat Lady is back.

Hagrid invites Ron and Harry to visit him in the evening. He tells them that Buckbeak's case is next friday and that Hermione has been visiting him lately because she is unhappy. There is another Hogsmeade trip and Harry decides to go, taking his Invisibility cloak and the Marauder's Map. With a he opens the passage and shoves his bag through. Snape turns up and tells him to leave.

He finds Ron. Harry is wearing his Invisibility cloak. Next they visit Zonko's. When they go to see the Shrieking Shack, Draco, Crabbe and Goyle turn up. Being invisible, Harry throws mud at them. When stumbling, Crabbe's foot catches the hem of Harry's cloak and for a split second his face is visible. Draco, Crabbe an Goyle flee. Afraid that Malfoy will tell a teacher, Harry speeds back through the tunnel to Hogwarts. He hides his cloak in a shadowy corner in the tunnel. Just as he gets through the statue of the one-eyed witch, Snape walks in and takes Harry to his office.

Snape tries to provoke Harry into confessing he was at Hogsmeade. Harry is told to empty his pockets. It's full of Zonko's tricks and the Marauder's Map. Although the map looks like an empty piece of parchment, Snape suspects there's more to it. He tries to put a charm on it to make it show something the map starts insulting Snape. He throws a fistful of powder into the flames of the fireplace and calls for Lupin. Lupin steps out of the fireplace and presumes it's not full of Dark Magic but simply a piece of parchment that insults people, probably bought in a joke-shop. Ron rushes in and states he bought it in Zonko's and gave it to Harry. Lupin takes Harry and Ron away.

Lupin knows the parchment is a map. He also knows the creators of the map. On their way back to Gryffindor Tower, Harry and Ron run into Hermione. She shows them a letter stating that Buckbeak is to be executed. Ron and Hermione make up.

The three of them have Divination together and they go to Professor Trelawney's room. They have moved up to the crystal ball lessons. After a while they get bored and Ron makes a funny comment. Professor Trewlawney looks into Harry's orb and she sees the Grim again. Hermione decides she has enough of it and leaves classes. Easter holiday has started, but the third-years have a lot of homework. Hermione looks very tired. The Quidditch final between Gryffindor and Slytherin is near. The night before the game Harry sleeps badly, waking up after having strange dreams. Looking out of the window, he sees Crookshanks and a huge black dog..

The day of the Quidditch match has arrived. Harry and the team get ready to enter the field. Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff are supporting Gryffindor; not wanting Slytherin to win. Flint, The game turns very dirty but Gryffindor manages to get sixty points ahead. Harry sees the Snitch and goes after it, but Malfoy holds on to Harry's broom so Harry misses it by a short distance. He finally manages to catch the Snitch right in front of Malfoy's nose and the stadium explodes with cheers.

Hermione looks completely exhausted. Her exam timetable shows various exams at the same time. Ron asks how she plans to do that but she does not answer the question. Exams start they go quite easily, with Potions as exception. Harry has his last exam, Divination. The students have to go to Professor Trelawney's room seperately. Harry makes up a bogus story. While Trelawney asks Harry questions about it, she suddenly starts talking in a harsh voice, her eyes unfocused and her mouth sagging. She's saying 'It will happen tonight. The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his followers. His servant has been chained these twelve years. Tonight, before midnight, the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master. The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible then ever before. Tonight ... before midnight ... the servant ... will set out ... to rejoin ... his master ...' After this, she snaps up again and does not remember anything she has said.

Back in Gryffindor Tower, Harry hears that Hagrid has sent a note saying Buckbeak has lost the appeal and will be executed at sunset, and that he does not want to talk to anybody. Harry, Ron and Hermione go under the cloak together to Hagrid's cabin. He tells them that not even Dumbledore can overrule the Committee's decision. About to go back to the castle, Hermione suddenly finds Scabbers in Hagrids milk bottle. Outside, a group of people are coming. The three go out the back door. As they leave towards the castle they hear the swish and thud of an axe.

Harry, Ron and Hermione hear a howl coming from Hagrid. For some reason, Scabbers is going berserk in Ron's pocket. Harry sees the reason; Crookshanks is approaching them. Scabbers escapes from Ron's hands and flees, Crookshanks going after it. Harry, Ron and Hermione follow them. Ron manages to catch Scabbers again. Suddenly a Black Dog attacks them, jumping on Harry and rolling off on him. When attacking a second time, Ron pushes Harry aside and is caught by the dog and dragged away. Harry is hit by something, the Whomping Willow. The dog drags Ron into a large gap in the base of the trunk of the Whomping Willow. Crookshanks calms the Whomping Willow by placing his paws on a knot on the trunk. They enter the gap into a long tunnel. The tunnel leads far down into a room and Hermione realises it's the Shrieking Shack. They follow the trail of something being dragged and end up in a room where they find Ron.

It's a trap. The dog in fact is an Animagus. It is Sirius Black, closing the door behind them. He disarms Harry and Hermione. Harry, loaded with hate for Black, lunges at him. A struggle follows. Harry manages to get hold on his wand. Ron and Hermione who are still struggling with Black are told by Harry to get out of the way, and they step aside. On the verge of killing Black, Crookshanks leaps onto Black's chest protecting him. Someone is coming, they hear footsteps. It is Lupin. Entering the room he disarms Harry and Hermione. Lupin then asks "Where is he, Sirius?". Harry is confused. Lupin seems to suddenly have some insight, asking half-questions to Black. Black appears to confirm with a nod. Lupin helps Black to his feet. Hermione yells out that she knows Lupin is a Werewolf. Lupin starts to explain that he knew where Black was because he saw him on the Marauder's Map. He is Moony, one othe the creators of the map. He figured they would sneak out to visit Hagrid and the Invisibility Cloak does not prevent them from showing up in the Marauder's Map. When he saw them leave from Hagrid's cabin on the Map, they were accompanied by someone. Acording to the map, two people were dragged into the Whomping Willow. He explains to them that Scabbers is not a rat, but a wizard. Scabbers is actually Peter Pettigrew.

Black tells them he meant to kill Peter Pettigrew twelve years ago but did not manage to do it. Peter Pettigrew is an unregistered Animagus, one of three which used to be students together at Hogwarts. Lupin was bitten as a child by a Werewolf. The potion which Professor Snape has been making for him, the Wolfsbane Potion, keeps Lupin's mind stable when he is transformed so that he can simply wait for it to pass. Dumbledore knew about Lupin's state. The Shrieking Shack was built as a place for protection when he was transformed. Black, Pettigrew and James Potter, his best friends, found out and became Animagi to keep him company during his time as a Werewolf. They created the Marauder's Map. Sirius' knickname was Padfoot, a dog, Peter's was Wormtail, a rat, James' was Prongs, a stag, and Lupin's nickname is Moony, a werewolf. Because of his gratitude towards Dumbledore, Lupin never had the courage to tell him that Sirius is an animagus. When they were students on Hogwarts, Sirius played a trick on Snape. Since Snape was very curious about the four's whereabouts, Sirius told Snape how to enter the Whomping Willow when Lupin was being led to the tunnel by Madam Pomfrey. To save Snape from meeting with a fully grown Werewolf, James Potter pulled snape back at great risk to his own life. Snape however saw Lupin as a Werewolf but was forbidden to talk about it by Dumbledore. At that moment Snape appears from under Harry's invisibility cloak.

He accuses Lupin of helping Black. He charms some cords which tie themselves around Lupin. He commands all of them to leave towards Hogwarts. Harry opposes him. At the same moment, Harry, Ron and Hermione disarm him with Expelliarmus, Snape is knocked out from the blow. Black unties Lupin. Black had recognised Scabbers as Pettigrew when he saw the photo of the Weasleys in Egypt in the Daily Prophet. The rat is missing one toe and they only found one finger of Pettigrew's after the blast. Crookshanks has been helping Black to find and capture Scabbers. According to Lupin and Black, it was Pettigrew who betrayed his parents. Twelve years ago, at the last moment, Black decided that Pettigrew should be their Secret-Keeper since nobody would expect they would use a weak wizard like him. This decision cost Harry's parents their lives.

Lupin and Black transform Scabbers back into Pettigrew by magic. Pettigrew has in fact been hiding all these years, waiting to see if Voldemort would return. Black tells he has been able to escape from Azkaban only because he knew he was innocent. This wasn't a happy thought so the Dementors couldn't suck it out of him, but it kept him sane; helped him keep his powers. He could still transform into a dog and managed to escape that way, as Dementor's have much more trouble's sensing animal emotions.

Lupin and Black decide to kill Pettigrew. Harry stops them. He wants Pettigrew to be handed over to the Dementors, and his life is spared by Harry's decision. Harry, Lupin, Black, Ron, Hermione, the unconsious Snape and the chained Pettigrew set out toward the castle. Sirius asks Harry if, since he is his godfather, would he like to live with him. Harry is filled with happiness, gladly accepting the offer. When they are almost at the castle, Lupin, who had forgotten to take his potion, transforms into a Werewolf. In the sudden panic, Black transforms into his Dog shape to protect them. Pettigrew dives for Lupin's dropped wand and takes out Ron. Harry disarms him but Pettigrew escapes after he transforms back into a rat.

Ron is unconscious. They hear Black yelp and then moan from the direction of the lake. Harry and Hermione speed in the direction and see at least a hundred Dementors gliding towards them. Thinking of the prospect of living with his godfather, Harry manages to charm a Patronus ; the Dementor's seem for a short moment not to be able to walk through the silver mist but in the end they are approaching closer and closer. One Dementor lowers his hood to perform the Dementors' Kiss and Harry sees its face. His Patronus flickers and dies. In the distance he hears someone screaming the Patronus Charm also. He sees a silvery light growing brighter, it drives the Dementors back. It goes back to its conjurer and Harry seems to recognise him, as he looks oddly like himself. Then he loses consciousness.

Harry regains consciousness and hears the Minister of Magic, Fudge, talk to Snape, telling him he will receive the Order of Merlin first or second class for his actions. Asking about the cut he has, Snape says that Harry, Ron and Hermione did it, under the influence of a Confundus Charm by Black. Snape starts telling Fudge that the three, especialy Harry, should be handled much more strictly. Snape had bound and gagged Black when he found them and took Harry, Ron and Hermione straight back to the castle.

They are in the Hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey, who is checking to see if they are alright, tells them that the Dementors will be performing the Kiss any moment now. Harry, in panic, starts telling them that Black is innocent, but they refuse to listen. Dumbledore enters the room. He talks to Harry and Hermione in private. Dumbledore believes their story but they have no proof and Snape's version is far more convincing. There's nothing he can do. What they need, he says, 'is more time'. Hermione understands and takes a tiny hour-glass on a chain and puts it around their necks together after Dumbledore leaves. She turns it and they go back in time. Hermione explains that she got the Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall to be able to take many of her classes which were scheduled at the same time.

Because Dumbledore said they would save more than one innocent life, they guess they're supposed to save Buckbeak's life and free Sirius from Flitwick's office where he is locked up. They see themselves going to Hagrid's cabin under the invisibility cloak earlier that night, and decide to run straight into the Forbidden Forest on the other side of Hagrid's cabin.

Next they see themselves entering Hagrid's cabin earlier that night and head toward the Hippogriff. Fudge, Macnair, Dumbledore and the other Committee member are coming. While they read the official notice of execution to Hagrid, they free Buckbeak and head back to the trees. They see the event earlier, when Sirius, as a black dog, caught Ron and dragged him into the Whomping Willow. A while later, Lupin enters the tree, and some time later Snape enters. Hermione wonders why the Dementors didn't take Sirius earlier and Harry says that someone must have conjured a real Patronus. Harry thinks it was his father.

They see themselves come out of the Whomping Willow and see the other events of earlier that evening. Since Lupin will head to the forest as a werewolf, they move away from their spot into Hagrid's cabin. He sees the Dementors at the lake and runs over to get a glimpse of whoever conjured the Patronus. Nobody appears and then he realises it was he; he had seen himself at the other side of the lake. He speeds from behind the bush and conjures a Patronus with his wand. The Patronus is a stag,... "Prongs"... he whispers, and then it vanishes. They wait for a while. They see Macnair go out of the castle to get the Dementors. On Buckbeak's back they fly to the window of the room where Sirius is held. Hermione opens the window and they take him up on top of the tower. Sirius takes off with Buckbeak.

Harry and Hermione have ten minutes to get back to the hospital wing without beeing seen. Harry and Hermione wait till they have passed and then continue. They reach the Hospital wing. Dumbledore leaves the room and sees them coming. He asks if they managed their task and they confirm. He locks them back into the room. Madam Pomfrey comes back to take care of them. They hear loud voices. It has been learned that Sirius has escaped. Snape starts accusing Harry of being involved in Sirius' escape. Dumbledore denies this fact since 'Harry and Hermione have been locked up for the last ten minutes and have not left the room'. Ron wakes up and they explain everything that has happened.

Lupin quits his job as a teacher since Snape told everybody Lupin is a Werewolf, and the parents of the students are not likely to approve of him remaining. He gives Harry back his Invisibility cloak and the Marauder's Map. Dumbledore enters and Lupin leaves. Harry tells Dumbledore about Professor Trelawney’s prediction. Dumbledore tells Harry that Pettigrew now owes his life to him.

Harry, Ron and Hermione pass all their exams. Hermione won't take Muggle Studies and Divination nor use the Time-Turner anymore as it is too exhausting. Ron asks if Harry would like to come to the World Championship with them in the coming summer holiday. Harry says he would like to.

During the ride back in the Hogwarts Express Harry receives an owl-message from Sirius, telling he is in hiding and that it was he who had sent him the Firebolt. He also gives Harry written permission, as his godfather, to visit Hogsmeade. The letter goes on to say that Ron can keep the owl. Arriving at the station, the Dursleys are already waiting. Uncle Vernon asks what the letter is, and Harry happily tells him that it is from his godfather, continuing, 'he was my parents’ best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though ... keep up with my news ... check if I’m happy ...'


Amazing!
You must have really enjoyed reading this book! It's as if you have memorized it, from front to back! I enjoyed reading your report, it was very long and extremely detailed. All the major plots and themes were mentioned and your own oppinion towards the book was enjoyable to read :D

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