About This Quiz
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is the third installment in the Harry Potter series. Can you remember what happens to Harry and the gang as they struggle through their third year at Hogwarts? Test your knowledge by taking this quiz.As always, Harry is at the Dursleys', waiting in agony for the school year to start.
Harry turns 13 years old on July 31.
Third-year students are allowed to visit the village of Hogsmeade, but they need permission from their guardians. Unsurprisingly, Uncle Vernon doesn't sign it.
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The Knight Bus takes Harry to Diagon Alley.
Harry is worried that Fudge will punish him for using magic outside of Hogwarts, but Fudge greets him and books him a room.
Diagon Alley — and the Muggle world — is abuzz with the news that Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban.
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Harry finds out about Sirius' crimes and learns that he's Sirius' godson.
Along with the usual supplies, Hermione gets Crookshanks, which immediately dislikes Ron's rat, Scabbers.
Sirius was convicted of the murder of 13 people using a single charm.
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Lupin is the new defense against the dark arts professor.
As a surprise to exactly no one, Percy is Head Boy.
After being falsely imprisoned and then released from Azkaban, Hagrid becomes the care of magical creatures instructor.
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The gang meets loopy new professor Sybill Trelawney in divination class.
Malfoy taunts Buckbeak into an attack during the first class with Hagrid.
Dementors, boggarts, Patronus charms and animagi all have enormous impact in "The Prisoner of Azkaban."
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In defense against the dark arts, the third years learn how to protect themselves against boggarts, which change into the thing a person fears the most.
Oliver Wood, who recruited Harry for the team, is desperate to win the Quidditch Cup in his final year as captain.
After a boatload of drama during the regular season, Harry makes a well-timed grab for the snitch in a match against Slytherin (of course) that secures the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor.
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Snape ditches Lupin's syllabus and teaches a very pointed lesson about werewolves.
Harry learns later that dementors bring up horrible moments from a person's past, and the sound is his mother's dying screams.
Harry gets a state-of-the-art Firebolt for Christmas, without a note.
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Fred and George give Harry the Marauder's Map for Christmas, and Harry uses it to join his classmates in Hogsmeade.
Poor Neville had to write down the changing passwords because he could never remember them. Crookshanks stole the list and gave it to Sirius.
Hermione has been using her Time-Turner necklace to take extra classes, but she also uses it to go back in time with the boys and save Sirius and Buckbeak.
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Buckbeak strikes Lupin (in werewolf form) as he's about to attack the kids.
It's finally revealed that Pettigrew was in league with Voldemort and framed Sirius for his crimes.
Prongs is James' animagus, Padfoot is Sirius, and Wormtail is Peter Pettigrew.
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Dumbledore created the tunnel years ago to give Lupin a secret place to transform into a werewolf.
To make up for having killed Scabbers (aka Pettigrew), Sirius gives Pigwidgeon to Ron.
This is the only Harry Potter volume in which no people or beings die. Voldemort doesn't show up, either.
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