As he enter his third year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter has had enough of his relatives and he finally runs away from them. Instead of running away from trouble he finds himself facing trouble from more than one side: for using magic outside the school and from the news that a notorious criminal, serial killer Sirius Black, has escaped the high-security wizard's prison at Azkaban and apparently is headed for Harry. The school calls in supernatural help against Black in the form of Dementors (prison guards that drain the hope and happiness out of everyone around them) but unusual things continue to put Harry in peril.

picture from the Harry Potter Lexicon

He is thrown into a confusing panoply of shifting alliegences and shifting shapes where nobody is who or what they seem. Who is the real criminal? What is the real crime? Who is telling or knows the truth? On a brighter note, Harry gets a firebolt - a top of the line high performance flying broom... =)

We learned that:

Those we have lost are always with us, especially when we need them the most!

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