Author | J. K. Rowling |
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Illustrator | Cliff Wright (UK Edition) Mary GrandPré (US Edition) Jim Kay (Illustrated Edition) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Harry Potter |
Release number | 3rd in series |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher |
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8 July 1999 (UK) 8 September 1999 (US) | |
Pages | 317 (UK Edition) 462 (2014 UK Edition) 435 (US Edition) 464 (2013 US Edition) |
ISBN | 0-7475-4215-5 |
Preceded by | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
Followed by | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the third in the Harry Potter series. The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies.
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.[1][2][3][4] Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she had begun writing it. 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.[5] 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 film adaptation of the novel was released in 2004, grossing more than $796 million and earning critical acclaim. Video games loosely based on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were also released for several platforms, and most obtained favourable reviews.
- 2Publication and reception
- 4Adaptations
Plot[edit]
Harry is back at the Dursleys for the summer holidays, where he sees on Muggle television that a convict named Sirius Black has escaped, though with no mention of what facility he has broken out of. Harry involuntarily inflates Aunt Marge when she comes to visit after she insults Harry and his parents. This leads to his running away and being picked up by the Knight Bus. He travels to the Leaky Cauldron where he meets Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, who asks Harry to stay in Diagon Alley for the remaining three weeks before the start of the school year at Hogwarts. While there, he meets his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
The night before Harry is expected to leave for Hogwarts, he learns from Arthur Weasley that Sirius Black is a convicted murderer in the wizarding world, and he warns Harry that it is believed Black will attempt to murder Harry next. On the way to Hogwarts a Dementor boards the train, causing Harry to faint. Following the incident, Harry is helped by the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Remus Lupin. Harry, Ron, and Hermione learn that the Dementors will be patrolling the school in an attempt to catch Black.
Later on, Lupin's Defence Against the Dark Arts sessions prove far better than those of Gilderoy Lockhart (Harry's uselessly vain ex-teacher). They have a fun lesson on Boggarts and then learn about more Dark Creatures. When Lupin supposedly falls ill, the much hated Potions Master Professor Snape temporarily takes over teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts and torments the class, much to their dismay.
At Hogwarts, Harry has several problems with the Dementors, including an episode at a Quidditch match during which he faints and falls off his broomstick from high in the air. His broom is blown away and smashed by the Whomping Willow. Working with Harry outside class, Lupin teaches him the Patronus Charm to repel Dementors.
On an unauthorised visit to the village of Hogsmeade (thanks to The Marauder's Map, given to him by George Weasley and Fred Weasley), Harry overhears some of his teachers talking with Fudge about Black. They reveal that Black was a friend of Harry's parents but he betrayed them and gave Voldemort access to their house. They also mention that Black killed twelve Muggles and his former friend Peter Pettigrew.
Ron and Hermione's friendship later suffers when Ron believes that Hermione's cat, Crookshanks, ate his rat, Scabbers. At Christmas Harry receives a mysterious present, a late-model Firebolt broom. Fearing it might be cursed, Hermione reports the gift to Professor McGonagall, which leads to more bad feelings between her and Ron and Harry.
Ron, Hermione, and Harry join the effort to save Hagrid's hippogriff, Buckbeak, from being executed for attacking Draco Malfoy, after Draco provoked him. Their efforts are unsuccessful, but Scabbers reappears shortly after they hear Buckbeak being executed.
Ron chases Scabbers, only to be attacked by a big black dog, which Harry has seen several times before. The dog drags Ron through a tunnel under the Whomping Willow into the Shrieking Shack. Harry and Hermione follow, and there is a brief standoff when they find Ron with Sirius Black, who has transformed from the dog. Lupin enters, and they explain the situation to Harry and his friends: Lupin is a werewolf, which led to his friends James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew becoming animagi. Lupin explains that Scabbers is Pettigrew in his animal form; he has been hiding from Black, whom he had framed for betraying Harry's parents and murdering the twelve Muggles.
Snape arrives to apprehend Black but Harry, Ron, and Hermione knock him unconscious with the Expelliarmus charm. Lupin and Black transform Pettigrew back into human form and prepare to kill him, but they are stopped by Harry, as he feels his father would not have wanted it. He convinces them to send Pettigrew to Azkaban instead.
As they move back toward Hogwarts, Lupin turns into a werewolf and becomes violent, having missed a dose of his Wolfsbane potion. Pettigrew escapes again, and Black prevents Lupin from attacking the others in werewolf form. Some Dementors approach Harry, Ron and Hermione.
When they wake up in the hospital, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are told that Black has been sentenced to receive the Dementor's kiss, which removes the soul of the recipient. Dumbledore advises Hermione and Harry to use Hermione's time-turner, a device she has been using to double-up on classes; this permits them to go back in time and save Buckbeak, who carries Black away to safety.
Sadly, Snape lets slip that Lupin is a werewolf, leading to his resignation. Harry visits Lupin before he leaves, and as they say goodbye, Lupin is certain that they will meet again.
Publication and reception[edit]
Pre-release history[edit]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. The first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US), was published by Bloomsbury on 26 June 1997 and the second, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published on 2 July 1998.[6] Rowling started to write the Prisoner of Azkaban the day after she finished The Chamber of Secrets.[7]
Rowling's favourite aspect of this book was introducing the character Remus Lupin,[8] Rowling additionally said in 2004 that Prisoner of Azkaban was 'the best writing experience I ever had..I was in a very comfortable place writing (number) three. Immediate financial worries were over, and press attention wasn't yet by any means excessive'.[9]
Critical reception[edit]
Gregory Maguire wrote a review in The New York Times for Prisoner of Azkaban: in it he said, 'So far, in terms of plot, the books do nothing new, but they do it brilliantly..so far, so good.'[10] In a newspaper review in The New York Times, it was said that 'The Prisoner of Azkaban' may be the best 'Harry Potter' book yet'.[11] A reviewer for KidsReads said, 'This crisply-paced fantasy will leave you hungry for the four additional Harry books that J.K. Rowling is working on. Harry's third year is a charm. Don't miss it.'[12]Kirkus Reviews did not give a starred review but said, 'a properly pulse-pounding climax..The main characters and the continuing story both come along so smartly..that the book seems shorter than its page count: have readers clear their calendars if they are fans, or get out of the way if they are not.'[13] Martha V. Parravano also gave a positive review for The Horn Book Magazine, calling it 'quite a good book.'[14] In addition, a Publishers Weekly review said, 'Rowling's wit never flags, whether constructing the workings of the wizard world..or tossing off quick jokes..The Potter spell is holding strong.[15]
However, Anthony Holden, who was one of the judges against Prisoner of Azkaban for the Whitbread Award, was negative about the book, saying that the characters are 'all black-and-white', and the 'story-lines are predictable, the suspense minimal, the sentimentality cloying every page'.[16]
Awards[edit]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won several awards, including the 1999 Booklist Editors' Choice Award,[17] the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers,[18] the 1999 FCGB Children's Book Award,[19] the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year for children's books.,[20] and the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel,.[21] It was also nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the first in the series nominated, but lost to A Deepness in the Sky.[22]Prisoner of Azkaban additionally won the 2004 Indian Paintbrush Book Award[23] and the 2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award.[24] Additionally, it was named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book in 2000[25] as well as one of their Best Books for Young Adults.[26] As with the previous two books in the series, Prisoner of Azkaban won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal for children aged 9–11 and made the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.[27] In both cases, it was the last in the series to do so.[28] However, in the latter case, a Children's Best Sellers list was created just before the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in July 2000 in order to free up more room on the original list.[29] In 2003, the novel was listed at number 24 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[30]
Sales[edit]
Prisoner of Azkaban sold more than 68,000 copies in the UK within three days of publication, which made it the fastest selling British book of the time.[5] The sales total by 2012 is said by The Guardian to be 3,377,906.[3]
Editions[edit]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in hardcover in the UK on 8 July 1999[31] and in the US on 8 September.[31] The British paperback edition was released on 1 April 2000,[32] while the US paperback was released 2 October 2001.[33]
Bloomsbury additionally released an adult edition with a different cover design to the original, in paperback on 10 July 2004[34] and in hardcover on October 2004.[35] A hardcover special edition, featuring a green border and signature, was released on 8 July 1999.[36] In May 2004, Bloomsbury released a Celebratory Edition, with a blue and purple border.[37] On 1 November 2010, they released the 10th anniversary Signature edition illustrated by Clare Mellinsky and in July 2013 a new adult cover illustrated by Andrew Davidson, both these editions were designed by Webb & Webb Design Limited.[38]
Beginning on 27 August 2013, Scholastic will release new covers for the paperback editions of Harry Potter in the United States to celebrate 15 years of the series.[39] The covers were designed by the author and illustrator Kazu Kibuishi.[40]
An illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released on October 3, 2017, and was illustrated by Jim Kay who illustrates the previous two instalments. This includes over 115 new illustrations and will be followed by Illustrated editions of the following 4 novels in the future.
Adaptations[edit]
Film[edit]
The film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released in 2004 and was directed by Alfonso Cuarón from a screenplay by Steve Kloves.[41] The film débuted at number one at the box office and held that position for two weeks.[42] It made a total of $796.7 million worldwide,[43] which made it the second highest-grossing film of 2004 behind Shrek 2. However, among all eight entries in the Harry Potter franchise, Prisoner of Azkaban grossed the lowest, yet among critics and fans, the film is said to be one of the best in the franchise.[44] The film ranks at number 471 in Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.[45]
Video games[edit]
Three unique video games by different developers were released in 2004 by Electronic Arts, loosely based on the book:
Developer | Release date | Platform | Genre | GameRankings | Metacritic |
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KnowWonder | 25 May 2004 | Microsoft Windows | Adventure/puzzle | 68.52%[46] | 67/100[47] |
Griptonite | Game Boy Advance | Role-playing game | 69.58%[48] | 69/100[49] | |
EA UK | 29 May 2004 | GameCube | Action-adventure | 69.74%[50] | 67/100[51] |
PlayStation 2 | 72.59%[52] | 70/100[53] | |||
Xbox | 68.39%[54] | 67/100[55] |
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When Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban came out, J.K. Rowling's fans didn't even need to crack the covers before freaking out. I know this first hand because my mom bought a copy for one of my cousins, and I witnessed her literally jumping up and down with joy, clutching the hardcover to her chest. (Not that I did that myself.. no.. not at all.) I had friends who lined up at midnight at bookstores to snag a copy the minute they could. This book helped launch Rowling's stardom even more (at the time, we didn't think it was possible — but little did we know how BIG she'd become, right?).
Do you remember how it felt to discover the Weasley twins had this amazingly cool map? Do you remember how freaking uplifting the end of the book was? Do you remember how much fun the book was from start to finish because even though bad things were happening, it was in such a mysterious, intriguing, and action-packed kind of way? If you've forgotten, let me refresh your memories of what it felt like reading HP3 for the first time:
Contentment
Seeing Harry finding a workaround for how to study, watching him get his birthday presents.. the cockles of my heart are trembling with warmth and contentment.
Anger
Who is Aunt Marge, who does she think she is, and hey, pit bulls are only mean when you train them to be that way, which makes her doubly evil. But then, of course, Harry gets landed with another letter and all goes to hell. Well, damn.
Panic
Harry's on the run? He's a fugitive? This is insane, he's doing more magic, this can't be a good thing, stop it, Harry, stop it!
Relief
Everything's okay. Politicians (tee hee, Cornelius Fudge, basically the best name for a head of government ever) have a lot of power and can clear your record. Plus, a free stay at the Leaky Cauldron? Hell yeah.
Alarm
Serius Black is after Harry. This is bad.
Apprehension
There's a weird teacher at the back of the train car and the lights go off and the train to Hogwarts is stopping — it never stops — and there are Dementors. Dementors are seriously creepy. They breathe like Darth Vader but can suck your soul out too.
Cheerful
Hogwarts is Hogwarts and Professor Lupin is the bomb, a teacher who can finally teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Snape/Draco are asses as usual, but Quidditch training is cool and it's so good to be back in the hallowed halls. And Hagrid is teaching! How weird/cool is that?
Flustered
First Professor Trelawney's weird ass classes, then the freaking Dementors again, who ruin Harry's game, quite literally.
Dis/Approval
So, yay, the Weasley twins give Harry a super dangerous (but awesome) map that lets him get into Hogsmeade illegally. But then it only makes him feel worse because now he knows that Serius Black was a friend of his parents and betrayed them.
Distressed
Hermione and Ron fight because of Crookshanks and Scabbers, then Hermione and Harry fight because he gets a Firebolt for Chirstmas and Hermione thinks it might be cursed and gives it to Professor McGonagall.
Sorrow
Buckbeak is being executed! Scabbers appears and then runs off and Ron ends up being dragged down into the Womping Willow's based! Crookshanks finds a way in and there's Serius Black and then Lupin and there's violence and they say Black's innocent while it's Peter the rat who was, well, the rat, and then Snape shows up and what's going on?! I need a bag to hyperventilate into, please.
Queasy
Harry and Hermione go back in time with Hermione's nifty Time-Turner, and you know what, this is just getting insane. They save Buckbeack, then Serius Black, and then run back to the hospital wing, and I am freaking out because they're so close to being caught and screwing with the Doc Brown space-time continuum I remember from Back to the Future.
Tender
Serius Black is almost like Harry's dad. And he's going to be OK. And Harry is going to be OK. And Ron and Hermione are also going to be OK. (And maybe we won't have to see that crazy Trelawney anymore.)
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Chapter 3
The Truth will set you Free
July 31st, 1993
Magnolia Crescent Park, 3:41 p.m.
Harry stepped off the bus in the station of Little Whinging, Surrey and proceeded to walk towards the local park there. Since there was still three to four more hours still left of daylight and he was in no hurry to return to the Dursley's. Harry wondered if his mother was never a true sister to Petunia Dursley how was the protections fairing… and then he remembered the Blood ward was only tied to him. He was there for one thing and that was to power the ward and not the house itself.
After arriving at the park, Harry found a nice tree to sit under and pulled out his mother's Journal from his new backpack and began to read it.
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~Force~
Harry was surprised that his mother's first magical friend was none other than Severus Snape and he has been his mother's friend since she was around nine years old. Harry also found out that Petunia Evans did not care for him too much and never trusted Snape either. Petunia hatred for Lily only grew after Lily received her Hogwarts Letter and found out she couldn't go with her because Petunia wasn't magical.
Lily described her first trip on the Hogwarts Express, how she sat with her best friend Severus all the way there and they were interrupted by a pair of rude boys by the name of James Potter and Sirius Black. Both were very friendly with each other but made comments about Severus's clothes and hair. And from there it all went downhill.
Lily then went on to describe her sorting, how the hat had wanted to place her into Ravenclaw but felt Gryffindor would be a better fit. She was also a bit upset when her friend was sorted into Slytherin.
After only a few months Severus had started to become distant and after confronting her friend she was told that he was getting pressure from his house to end their friendship. But she rebutted the arguments by standing firm; others would not dictate who she would be friends with. James and Sirius continued to get into trouble for pulling pranks on the Slytherin house, often catching Severus in with the lot.
The Journal was a fascinating read and Harry rushed through the first book nearly and was nearly done with it by the time the sun was just beginning to start setting.
Harry was happy to know that, like Hermione, Lily Evans was named the smartest witch of her age, coming in first for nearly all her classes. She was only topped by James Potter in Transfiguration and Remus in Defense. Other than that, James and Sirius would come in second or third for many classes. Severus would normally flip between first and second place in Potions with her. However, Remus Lupin, a quiet boy in their year, who was always sick every month, did very well as well. It was almost a battle in every class for the top marks.
It wasn't till Lily's third year that she started to discover that James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter, who was a chubby boy that never worked hard at anything, we're really targeting those kids that picked on the Muggle-born wizards and witches like herself. She also found out that James would get rather nasty to those who targeted her specifically. But until James stop being so arrogant all the time, she would not give him a second look and that didn't start to change till the end of her fourth year at Hogwarts.
Then in her fifth year, it had happened, the betrayal of her best friend, Severus Snape. He had called her the vilest of names a 'Mud-Blood' and she was forced to reevaluate her friendship with him. He was only nice to her when the two were alone. And those alone times had started to get… uncomfortable to be at. She had to stop Severus from his advances several occasions during a few study periods. But that name canceled their friendship right then and there.
During her sixth year it happened, James Charles Potter went home after their fifth year and had come back different… she would find out later that his grandfather and grandmother were killed by Death Eaters attack in Diagon Alley and his father was nearly killed as well. The James Potter that returned stopped pulling so many pranks and hadn't nearly any arrogance at all anymore. He took the time to help the younger kids with their studies and put more effort with house unity. It didn't hurt that he also grew a few inches either. Lily was hooked and by the end of the year, they were solidly courting each other.
During her seventh year, Lily and James were both made Head Boy and Girl. And at the end of the year, James Charles Potter proposed to her in the Gryffindor common room and with everyone there.
Between the two they set records for most OWL's and NEWT's achieved for the school year. She was contacted by Filius Flitwick about attaining her Masteries in Charms as James was contacted by Minerva McGonagall for his Transfiguration Masteries.
Harry looked up at this point and realized it was getting very late as the sun had dropped below the horizon although sunlight did still reflect off the few clouds in the sky. He also knew he needed to get home, or he would be locked out of the house, again.
~Force~
On his way back to his house he noticed a rather large and underfed dog trying to not so secretly follow him home. It seemed a bit timid at first, but Harry was able to have it come to him to be petted. Harry noticed it didn't have a collar and was rather dirty.
'What have you been into, Old Boy,' he had asked the dog. Only to get a soft wine as Harry started to scratch behind one of its ears then the other.
'You look pretty hungry, would you like something to eat. I don't always get food myself, but I could see if I could get you some, aye boy,' Harry added continuing to scratch the other ear.
Another wine.
Harry dropped down to one knee and look the dog in the eyes, 'You'll stick around here and stay safe and I'll go and see about grabbing some food for ya, ok?' The dog answered with a lick to the wide-open face of Harry Potter.
Harry couldn't help it as he fell backward on the sidewalk and laughed all the while the dog continued to lick all over Harry's face by the oversized dog that seemed to be very playful. After a few more minutes Harry managed to get back to his feet and walked the playful dog back to number four Privet Drive. He would get the dog some food tonight and then get him a bath tomorrow.
Yeah… that was the plan until Harry found out that his Aunt Marge had arrived during the day while he was in London visiting Gringotts bank. He looked down at the stray dog and back at number four and sighed.
'Ah, look… um…,' thinking up a name for the dog it came to him a name that fit somehow '… Snuffles?'
The dog just looked at him strangely as Harry turned back to look at number four again.
'My aunt Marge must have arrived today while I was at Gringotts today,' he could tell the dog that, I mean it not like the dog could tell anyone, right. 'And she, not the nicest person, well none of them are real but, I might not be able to get food out to you tonight but… I will try and bring you some bacon and other goodies tomorrow morning, ok? Then, I think we should get you washed up because if you are dirty, people may call the pound and I can't have a dirty pet, sounds good?'
The dog just gave another lick to the face and then scooted off into the alleyway.
Harry sighed and walked up the driveway of number four and knocked on the front door and for good measure took two steps away from the doorway.
After about a minute the door was opened by his Aunt Petunia and she looked upset.
'Get in here, Boy!' she ordered.
With an eyebrow raised, Harry settles back into that calm feeling Luke had talked about. As he entered the house and Petunia closed the door Harry felt something calling on him to move… to 'roll forward', and so he did just that, then he a felt a rush of wind as a fatty fist sailed just over his head.
Harry came up and spun around see his initial attacker, his uncle Vernon, only to feel a pull to 'step left' against the wall only to see Dudley rush pass him and ran directly into his mother, next a quick barking came racing around the corner, Ripper had come to bite one of the boy-who-lived legs again. Harry spun and with a quick and vicious kick sent Ripper through the open kitchen door, over the table, and through the kitchen window, 'that dog won't bark anymore' Harry thought to himself with a huge smile inside of him.
Harry then fell further into what Luke and Lily had called the Force, increasing both his speed and strength. Just in time as Aunt Marge was coming from the kitchen with a rolling pin in one hand. Harry also felt Uncle Vernon coming up behind him. Harry moved forward towards Marge closing the distance quickly and then stepped to the left, grabbing the rolling pin on the downward swing towards his head and redirected it towards and against Uncle Vernon's outstretched right hand. Harry heard the loud crack of several bones being broken, 'oh there goes his happy life' Harry thought to himself.
Continuing with Marge's downward swing as Harry moved his shoulder under her arm. Harry heard a slight pop of a dislocated elbow as Marge's arm was folded backward nearly forty-five degrees in the opposite direction.
Harry then kicked out back with his left leg folding Marge's left knee cap and causing Marge to drop to the ground in pain. Then Harry brought his left foot forward quickly and kicked the still upright and crying Uncle Vernon in the mommy-daddy button putting him to the floor while causing his uncle Vernon to empty his supper all over the hallway floor and released Marge to fall to the floor behind him.
Harry walked down the hall, passed a petrified Aunt Petunia and up the stairs. He gathered all his stuff in his bedroom and shoved everything in his backpack or prepares things to be placed within his trunk downstairs. Harry internally thanked Hedwig for not being here as she was currently out hunting for the moment. Harry emptied the cage on the floor of his cousin's second bedroom and slung his new backpack on his back. Harry grabbed the cage and walked down the stairs to the Hallway. Harry noticed the two largest attackers were still on the floor moaning. His cousin was back up and was hesitant to attack, looking between him and his aunt and his father. Dudley wasn't the smartest kid by a long shot but knew when he was outmatched.
Harry ripped the cupboard door open and pulled out his trunk and then pack Hedwig's cage into the trunk. As Harry started to pull the trunk towards the front door Dudley felt he could attack now… how so very wrong he was. Harry dropped his trunk, kicked forward, much like his uncle Vernon, Dudley dropped to both knees holding on to his 'precious', leaving his face wide open for an elbow slam he once saw Dudley watch on the TV once, breaking his nose and causing blood to pour out of it.
Harry backed up and grabbed his trunk just as Dudley's eyes rolled backward and blackness overtook his cousin's mind. Harry stopped near Petunia and looked at her.
'Do you know what I found out today Mrs. Dursley?' Harry asked.
She didn't say anything, so Harry continued.
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'I found out that my mother was never your true sister. She was adopted, and that is why you could never perform magic Mrs. Dursley and because of that the Blood Ward that Professor Dumbledore said he set-up when I first came here was a fake. Due to this, I will be leaving this house and I will not be coming back. I sure hope you haven't taken too much of my money from my vault for keeping me here,' Harry commented just before walking out the front door.
~Force~
The minute Harry stepped off the property there was a flash of light and Harry didn't feel so tired anymore. Just as he approached the alley, he saw the black dog was running up to him.
'Sorry fellow, I didn't get a chance to retrieve you any food,' and the dog whined a bit. 'But I'm sure we can find something at the local food restaurant.' Instantly the dog started to bounce around him before coming up on his side and began to walk with him. It was strange but the dog reminded him of his mother's letter and how she talked about 'the Black mutt', also Harry started to feel something wrong with the dog, it didn't feel right to him in the Force. Maybe he could trick it into revealing itself? If he was wrong nothing would happen, and he would still have someone to have fun with.
After a few minutes, Harry decided to put his plan into gear. 'You know it would be nice if there was a place we could go and stay till the first of September. Ah… Padfoot?' Harry asked.
'You do know… you can transform if you want to talk, Padfoot' Harry said again stating the nickname.
The dog stopped for a moment before the dog transformed. Where a dog once stood was now a mass of filthy, matted hair that hung to his elbows. If eyes hadn't been shining out of the deep, dark sockets, he might have been a corpse. The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of his face, it looked like a skull. His yellow teeth were bared in a grin. Before he stood was his godfather, Sirius Black.
'How did you know,' Sirius asked worriedly.
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'My mother, she was able to send me a letter last night. She implicated in the letter that Sirius Black was my Godfather and was, and I quote, was 'a Black Mutt', and today a black dog that I have never seen around here before had come up to me' Harry was as sure as hell he wasn't going to say that he could feel the difference between a human and a dog at any rate in the Force.
July 31st, 1993, 7:34 p.m.
Alleyway near Magnolia Crescent and Wisteria Walk, Little Whinging
Sirius was in shock. 'Ok Padfoot, Prongslet knows you're really Sirius Black But, does he know that I just escaped from Azkaban Prison last week?' And with that Sirius looked a tad bit afraid. 'What do you know about me, Harry?' asked Sirius.
'I know you were one of my dad's best friends. That you went to school with my mother as well. You all had nicknames like Padfoot and Mooney. Also, that you are my Godfather and you should have been the one to raise me,' Harry answered… 'What happened?'
'I persuaded Lily and James to change the secret keepers to Peter Pettigrew at the last moment. I persuaded them to use him as their Secret-Keeper instead of me… I'm to blame, I know it… The night they died, I had arranged to check on Peter, make sure he was still safe, but when I arrived at his hiding place, he was gone. Yet there was no sign of a struggle. It didn't feel right. I got scared and I set out for your parents' house straight away. And when I saw their house, destroyed, and their bodies… I realized what Peter must've done… what I'd done…,' his voice broke and turned away.
After a moment Sirius regain control of his emotions and continued. 'I sought to exact revenge on Pettigrew, Harry, and I caught up with Wormtail the next day outside his apartment that he was staying at,' Sirius continued with a little more heat in his voice. 'But the little rat caught me off guard, I was just going to walk up to him a disapparate away with him, but he got the drop on me, he turns and disarmed me. I was shocked at that.'
'Then Peter started screaming at how 'I betrayed your mother and father' how 'I was the secret keeper for the Potters.' He must have known Aurors where on their way, cause he cast a cheering charm on me, then a blasting hex at the road, it must have hit a gas line or something, because it knocked me off my feet and killed or injured everyone within twenty feet of himself, so many muggles. Then Peter must have changed into his rat form and fled.'
'After that, I woke up in my cell in Azkaban. I waited for my trial, but it never happened. Your father and I were both Junior Aurors at the time and I knew I should have received a trial, but it never happened.'
Harry was shocked to thing his godfather was in prison without a trial. 'How did you survive?' Harry asked.
'I don't know how I did it, Harry,' he said slowly. 'I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that place was that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought so the Dementors couldn't suck it out of me… but it kept me sane and knowing who I am… and it helped me to keep my powers… so when it all became too much… I transformed in my cell… and become the dog. Dementors can't see, you know…,' he swallowed. 'The dementors, they feel their way toward people, and they feed from emotions… they could tell that my feelings were less… well, less human, less complex when I was a dog… but they thought, of course, that I was losing my mind like everyone else in there, so it didn't trouble them. But I was weak, very weak, and I had no hope of driving them away from me without a wand…'
Another thought entered Harry's head and Harry voiced his question. 'How did you escape?' Harry probed.
'Minister Fudge,' said Black almost snarled out. At Harry's questioning face Sirius continued. 'When he came to inspect Azkaban, he gave me his paper. And there was Peter, on the front page… on this boy's shoulder… I knew him at once… how many times had I seen him transform? And the caption said the boy would be going back to Hogwarts… to where you were…'
'It was as if someone had lit a fire in my head, and the dementors couldn't destroy it. It wasn't a happy feeling… it was an obsession… but it gave me strength, it cleared my mind. So, one night when they opened my door to bring me my food, I slipped past them as a dog. It's so much harder for them to sense animal emotions that they were confused. I was thin; very thin… thin enough to slip through the bars. I swam as a dog back to the mainland. I was going to journeyed north and then slipped into the Hogwarts grounds as a dog. But I wanted to stop here on my way north to see Lily's sister, maybe ask her about you. And… there you were… reading under a tree. So much like Lily had used to, for so many days at Hogwarts,' Sirius answered with a sad smile on his face.
Behringer q802 software. Harry nodded, taking it all in… that Halloween night he lost his parents… they were betrayed by Peter… and then his Godfather was falsely imprisoned and then he made a daring escape to come to his side and protect… Him? Harry felt that he was really going to be cared for now, for the first time in his life that he could remember.
After a few minutes, Sirius said 'I don't know if anyone ever told you… that I'm your godfather.'
Harry smiled nodded; Sirius must have forgotten things before his tale started, 'It was in the letter mom sent me, remember?'
'Well… your parents appointed me your guardian,' said Black stiffly. 'You know if anything had happened to them.'
Harry waited. Did Black mean what he thought he meant? 'Was this what he was waiting for since this morning?'
Sirius, not understanding Harry internal understanding, continued 'But… well… think about it, once I get my name cleared… if you wanted to… you know, live in a different home.'
Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Harry's stomach. 'He was right, a place to train, and a new home?'
Black turned right around to look at his godson. Harry smiled and nodded in his approval, not able to get the right words out right now.
Black's gaunt looking face broke into his first true smile in a while Harry had seen on his face. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask.
Just then the silence was broken with a gurgle from both their stomachs.
'We should get something to eat,' Harry said in response to the noise and Sirius had agreed.
'Do you want to get something to eat here or would you like to get something near my London home?' Sirius asked.
'What, you have a place in London?' Harry asked coming to a stop quickly.
Sirius turned with an expression of… fear? 'Yah… why?'
'I need to visit Gringotts for something in the next few days, something about my accounts and… other things,' Harry answered trailing off at the end.
'Let's get something here, then we'll go straight to the Black family estate in London,' Black stated and Harry agreed.
Harry had ended up stopping at a local fast food chicken place for a takeout order for the two of them before taking a local bus into London once again with Sirius in his dog form, but this time to an unknown location Harry had never been before.
July 31st, 1993, 10:23 p.m.
Number twelve Grimmauld Place, London
After stopping at yet another fast food place in London, they hopped on another bus before being dropped off at a simple city park with a few trees, a couple of benches and a swing set for the kids' nothing as big as the park in Surrey but looked good enough.
Sirius led Harry, still in dog form, through the park to a row of brownstone homes. Much like the Leaky Cauldron people who walked past would look from number eleven to the park then back to number thirteen. Like number twelve wasn't even there.
'Muggle repellent and notice-me-not wards on the house Harry,' Sirius said quietly after shifting back to human form and Harry nodded in acceptance. It made sense being a Wizarding family that did not want anything to do with muggles would have them.
As Harry and Sirius walked up the steps, Sirius pricked his finger on the railing. With a questioning look on Harry's face Sirius turn to explain 'I would use my wand but since I do not have mine, I will need to use some of my blood to unlock the door. I will need a drop of yours later to key you into the house wards, but we can do that tomorrow morning. It's late and we need to get our rooms clean enough to sleep in, and then we can work on the rest of the house later if the damn house elf was unable to keep it clean. Hopefully 'Kreacher' hadn't been too relaxing in his duties.
Before Harry could say anything, Sirius grabbed the door handle, turned and with a flash of light opened the door to number twelve Grimmauld Place.
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