While there, Harry is warned that a former follower of Voldemort, named Sirius Black, is seeking him out after having escaped from the wizard prison, Azkaban.Īt Hogwarts, the guards of Azkaban, known as the Dementors, patrol the school looking for Black. He packs up and leaves the house, choosing to spend the summer at the Leaky Cauldron inn in London. While living with the Dursleys, Harry accidentally loses his temper and ends up inflating his Aunt Marge for insulting his parents. Video games loosely based on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were also released for several platforms, and most obtained favourable reviews. The film adaptation of the novel was released in 2004, grossing more than $796 million and earning critical acclaim. The book won the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was short-listed for other awards, including the Hugo. The book sold 68,000 copies in just three days after its release in the United Kingdom and since has sold over three million in the country. Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she began writing it. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 8 July 1999 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 8 September 1999 by Scholastic, Inc. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban, the wizard prison, believed to be one of Lord Voldemort's old allies.

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