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Harry Potter · Book 3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

Published
8 July 1999
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9781408855676
Type
novel

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About this book

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999, 416 pages) covers Harry's third year at Hogwarts, part of the seven-novel arc in which each book tracks one school year and builds toward the eventual confrontation with the dark wizard who murdered Harry's parents.

Its place in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is book 3 in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It is followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. See the full Harry Potter reading order.

Harry Potter follows an orphaned boy who discovers, on his eleventh birthday, that he is a wizard — and that the hidden magical world has been waiting for him. Whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry finds friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a talent for the broomstick sport of Quidditch, and a destiny tangled with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. Across seven novels, J. K. Rowling grows the story up alongside its readers. The…

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