Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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First Published: July 8th, 1999 (3:45pm in U.K), October 1999 in U.S.
Text Completed: 1999. This is confirmed because she wrote it in the same year as Chamber of Secrets
Published By: Bloomsbury Press in the U.K., Scholastic Books Inc. in the U.S., illustrations by Mary GrandPre, 1999
Other media versions: audiobooks: Stephen Fry (UK version), Jim Dale (US version); film (Warner Bros. – June, 2004), video games (Electronic Arts – June 2004)
Pages: 435
Chapters: 22
DADA Teacher: Professor Lupin
Dedication:
“To Jill Prewett and Aine Kiely, the Godmothers of Swing”
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Harry Potter, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can’t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn’t if they lived with the Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There’s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school.
This is the third book of the series; Rowling says this book was the most fun to write.
Corrections to the text:
In June of 2004, Rowling informed the various publishers and translators of her books of two corrections which she wanted made to all future editions of book three. They are:
- Chapter 3, page 38, line 8 from the bottom (Bloomsbury) – two (weeks) becomes three. In the US edition, I believe that is this line, on page 44, 3rd line from the bottom:
- Chapter 4, page 53, line 20 from the bottom (Bloomsbury) – twice disappears and the line will read: they’ve even ended up in the Forbidden Forest! In the US edition, that is on page 65, about in the middle of the page:
“So all that remains, ” said Fudge, now buttering himself a second crumpet, “is to decide where you’re going to spend the last two weeks of your vacation…”
which would become
“So all that remains, ” said Fudge, now buttering himself a second crumpet, “is to decide where you’re going to spend the last three weeks of your vacation…”
“I don’t want to make him miserable, I want to put him on his guard,” roared Mr. Weasley. “You know what Harry and Ron are like, wandering off by themselves—they’ve ended up in the Forbidden Forest twice!”
which now becomes
“I don’t want to make him miserable, I want to put him on his guard,” roared Mr. Weasley. “You know what Harry and Ron are like, wandering off by themselves—they’ve even ended up in the Forbidden Forest!”