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Published July 8, 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and is 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, the wizard prison, believed to be 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. Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she began 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. The book won the 1999 Whitbread …
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and is 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, the wizard prison, believed to be 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. Rowling found the book easy to write, finishing it just a year after she began 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. 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.
This is my favorite of all the Harry Potter books. I think the plotting is among the tightest, and her style is better than it was in the previous two. And it introduces one of my favorite characters, too. Love, love, love.
Re-reading this for the third time, but after an interval of twenty years, I discovered how much I had forgotten of the story. I remembered a few things, that had happened, but not how they had happened. And I rather surprised myself when I realised that the scenes I most enjoyed reading were the interhouse Quidditch matches.
But while I gave the first two books five stars, I only give this one four. The main reason for that was that I thought the denouement in the Shrieking Shack was the weakest scene in the book. In it the true villains are revealed, but it is too drawn out, and as one misunderstanding follows another it gets tiresome, as Expelliamus spells are tossed back and forth and wands are exchanged with monotonous regularity. On this reading I kept falling asleep.
