"What results once again is a good story, well told, one that is not only a cut above most fantasies for the age group but is also attractive to readers from beyond both ends of the spectrum We wait impatiently for the next episode." 

-- Booklist, starred review

"Brilliant . . . the Harry Potter stories belong to an ongoing tradition of Anglo-American fantasy that takes off from Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has been continued splendidly by writers like Lloyd Alexander, Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, and Diana Wynne Jones. What sets Rowling's books apart from their predecessors is partly a lighthearted fertility of invention that recalls L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Even more important is the fact that hers is a fully imagined world, to which she has a deep, ongoing commitment."

-- Alison Lurie, The New York Review of Books

Fow twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse,he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord,Voldemort.

Now he has escaped,leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed:Harry Potter"s defeat of You-Know-Who was Black"s downfall as well.And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep,"He"s at Hogwarts...he"s at Hogwarts."

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Aunt Marge"s Big Mistake

The Knight Bus

The Leaky Cauldron

The Dementor

Talons and Tea Leaves

The Boggart in the Wardrobe

Flight of the Fat Lady

Grim Defeat

The Marauder"s Map

The Firebolt

The Patronus

Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw

Snape"s Grudge

The Quidditch Final

Professor Trelawney"s Prediction

Cat, Rat, and Dog

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

The Servant of Lord Voldemort

The Dementor"s Kiss

Hermione"s Secret

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