Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter must confront his parent's past when Sirius Black breaks out of Azkaban Prison.
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Characters/Groups
Harry Potter - Daniel Radcliffe
Uncle Vernon - Richard Griffiths
Dudley Dursley - Harry Melling
Lily Potter - Geraldine Sommerville
Ernie The Bus Driver - Jimmy Gardner
Tom The Innkeeper - Jim Tavare
Cornelius Fudge - Robert Hardy
Hermione Granger - Emma Watson
George Weasley - Oliver Phelps
Mrs Molly Weasley - Julie Walters
Mr Arthur Weasley - Mark Williams
Professor Lupin - David Thewlis
Seamus Finnegan - Devon Murray
Albus Dumbledore - Michael Gambon
Professor Severus Snape - Alan Rickman
Professor Minerva McGonagall - Maggie Smith
Rubeus Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane
Neville Longbottom - Matthew Lewis
Lavender Brown - Jennifer Smith
Pansy Parkinson - Genevieve Gaunt
Fat Lady in Painting - Dawn French
Mother in Portrait - Annalisa Bugliani
Girl with Flowers - Violet Columbus
Professor Sybil Trelawney - Emma Thompson
Vincent Crabbe - Jamie Waylett
Angelina Johnson - Danielle Tabor
Madame Rosmerta - Julie Christie
Old Man in Portrait - Freddie Davis
Peter Pettigrew - Timothy Spall
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Detailed Synopsis
Harry Potter is sitting in his room practicing spells when Uncle Vernon Dursley|Uncle Vernon walks in and checks on Harry. After Uncle Vernon leaves, Harry successfully casts the lumos maxima spell, causing the entire room to glow brightly. The next day, Harry opens the door for Aunt Marge and Uncle Vernon. Aunt Marge walks in and hands her dog off to Aunt Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia. Harry asks Uncle Vernon to sign a school paper, but Uncle Vernon tells him maybe if he behaves he will sign it. Aunt Marge gets upset with the way Harry talks to her and calls him ungrateful. During dinner, Dudley Dursley eats while watching television. Aunt Marge sees Harry staring at her and she asks him if the school he goes to canes him for misbehavior, she asks Aunt Petunia about Harry's parents and calls James Potter a drunk. Harry angrily denies it and the glass in Aunt Marge's hand shatters. Aunt Marge then says it wasn't James' fault for how Harry turned out and says "if there is something wrong with the bitch, then there's something wrong with the pup". Harry yells at her to shut up and suddenly Aunt Marge starts to expand to great proportions. She starts to float into the air and eventually floats out of the house. Harry runs to his room and looks at the moving photo of James and Lilly Potter. Uncle Vernon tells Harry to fix Aunt Marge, but he refuses and leaves with a trunk full of luggage. Harry sits down on the edge of a sidewalk and sees a black dog. A bus pulls up and Stan Shunpike tells Harry about the Knight Bus for stranded wizards and witches. Harry gets on board and Ernie The Bus Driver starts to bus again. Stan asks Harry where he wants to go. As they are driving, Shrunken Head gives out commentary and warns of incoming obstructions. Harry sees Stan reading a newspaper with the headline about an escaped prisoner from Azkaban and Stan tells him the escapee is Sirius Black. The bus pulls up at the Leaky Cauldron and Tom The Innkeeper helps Harry with his luggage. As Harry enters the Leaky Cauldron he passes Man Reading Book. Tom takes Harry to Room 11 where Hedwig is already inside. Cornelius Fudge tells Harry a team from the Accidental Magic Reversal Department was forced to reverse what he did to Aunt Marge. He then tells Harry that no harm was done and he will be heading to Hogwarts in the morning. Harry opens one of his new school books, The Monster Book of Monsters and it tries to bite him. As Harry leaves his room, a Young Witch Maid walks by. Ron Weasley warns Hermione Granger to keep Crookshanks away from Scabbers. Ron and Hermione see Harry and Ron tells Harry about the trip he, George Weasley, Fred Weasley, Percy Weasley, Mrs Weasley, Ginny Weasley, and Mr Weasley took to Egypt when they won a contest. The rest of the Weasley family comes into the main room and Mrs Weasley asks Harry if he has everything he needs. Mr Weasley tells Harry he is in danger and how Sirius is a servant of Lord Voldemort. He tells Harry, Sirius' plan is to hunt down and kill Harry. Harry tells Ron and Hermione about what happened concerning Aunt Marge. They go into a train car where Professor Lupin is already inside, asleep. As the train is traveling to Hogwarts, the train comes to a stop and the lights go out. Ron sees something moving outside and a group of Dementors come on board. One of them opens the door to their train car and starts to suck the joy from Harry's spirit. Lupin gets up and casts a spell, forcing the Dementor to retreat. Lupin tells Harry the Dementors were looking for Sirius. They arrive at school where Professor Flitwick|Wizard leads the choir in a rendition of Double Double Toil and Trouble from Macbeth. Before their feast, Albus Dumbledore introduces the students to Lupin. Draco Malfoy asks Harry if he fainted when the Dementors came and Slytherin Boy makes fun of Harry. Dumbledore announces that Hagrid|Rubeus Hagrid will be teaching the Care of Magical Creatures course. Dumbledore then warns the students not to get in the way of the Dementors. As the Gryffindor students are going to their common room, Seamus Finnegan says the password to Fat Lady in Painting. She tells the students to wait as she tries to shatter a glass with her voice. The Fart Lady then lets out a loud scream causing the students and Mother in Portrait to cover their ears before cheating and smashing the glass. Harry, Ron, Seamus, Neville Longbottom and Dean Thomas take turns eating candy which causes them to make noises like animals. Before class a blue bird flies around, but is smashed by the Whomping Willow. In Divination class, Professor Sybil Trelawney tells them they will be learning Tasseomancy or the art of reading tea leaves. She asks Neville if his grandmother is okay and then asks Ron if he is a spirit. She takes Harry's cup and tells him he has the Grim. Boy 1 (Harry Potter)|Boy 1 reads to the class that the Grim is one of the darkest omens. After class Hermione tells Harry and Ron she doesn't believe in divinations and thinks Ancient Runes is a better course and Ron remarks that both of the courses happen at the same time. Hagrid takes the class to the woods and while they are walking Draco, who is standing next to Goyle|Gregory Goyle and Crabbe|Vincent Crabbe, complains that he is going to complain to his father that they allowed Hagrid to teach. Draco then makes fun of Harry and his encounter with the Dementors along with the others Pansy Parkinson and Slytherin Boy. Hagrid introduces the students to Buckbeak as they stare in wonder, including Girl 1 (Harry Potter)|Girl 1 and Boy 2 (Harry Potter)|Boy. Harry is chosen to be the first student to interact with Buckbeak and Harry manages to make friends with Buckbeak and Buckbeak lets Harry ride on him. Buckbeak lands back on the ground and Draco arrogantly pushes the other students out of the way and walks up to Buckbeak, who attacks him and Hagrid is forced to take Draco to the hospital. During study hall, Pansy asks Draco if his arm hurts and he tells her Madame Pomfrey told him he could have lost his arm. Seamus runs in with a newspaper that says Sirius has been sighted in Dufftown and Boy 1 worries Sirius might be nearby. Lupin shows the class a wardrobe with a Boggart inside of it. He teaches them a way to repel is Boggart is to cast the spell Riddikulus along with laughter. Neville is chosen to go first, the class continues with Ron going next, followed by Parvati Patel and then Harry. When it is Harry's turn, the Boggart turns into a Dementor and Lupin is forced to return the Boggart to the wardrobe. The students take a trip to Hogsmeade Village and Professor McGonagall|Professor Minerva McGonagall tells Harry he will have to stay behind since he doesn't have a signed form. Harry talks with Lupin about the Boggart and what happened on the train and Lupin tells Harry about James and Lily. Later, the Fat Lady disappears from the common room portrait. Dumbledore arrives with Mr Filch|Argus Filch, who is holding Mrs Norris, and Dumbledore tells Mr Filch to round up the ghosts to search for the Fat Lady. Mr Filch spots the Fat Lady and she tells them Sirius is in the castle. In Protection Against the Dark Arts class, Professor Snape substitutes for Lupin and teaches the students about werewolves and Animagus. The next day at the Quidditch match, while Harry is chasing the snitch, he is attacked by Dementors and loses consciousness and begins to plummet to the ground. Dumbledore stops his fall and Harry wakes up in the clinic and Harry shows him his broken broomstick. Harry talks to Lupin again and Lupin explains why the Dementors target him more than others. Lupin then agrees to teach him a spell to combat the Dementors. Fred and George see footprints in the snow and catch Harry trying to sneak around. They grab him and Fred hands Harry a piece of parchment and George casts a spell revealing the parchment to be the Marauder's Map which shows everyone moving within Hogwarts. Harry sneaks into Honeyduke and then out into Hogsmeade Village. Draco, Crabbe and Slytherin Boy confront Ron and Hermione, who are looking at the Shrieking Shack and after Draco calls Hermione a mudblood, he is hit with a snowball. Crabbe, Slytherin Boy and Draco are pushed around and they run away. Harry tells Hermione and Ron about the Marauder's Map and they go back to Hogsmeade. Hermione sees Madame Rosmerta and picks on Ron for having a crush on Rosmerta. Cornelius Fudge and Professor McGonagall arrive on sled and have a meeting with Rosmerta and tell her Sirius told Lord Voldemort where Lily and James were hiding and killed a mutual friend named Peter Pettigrew and Sirius is Harry's godfather. Ron and Hermione see footsteps running away and follow them and Harry cries and tells them what he heard. Lupin teaches Harry the Patronus Charm. Harry fails at first, but succeeds when he changes on what he is thinking about when he casts the spell. Ron accuses Crookshanks of eating Scabbers when Scabbers goes missing. Hermione, Harry and Ron go to ask Hagrid how the inquiry into Buckbeak's attack on Draco went and he tells them that Buckbeak's has been sentenced to death. While looking at the Marauder's Map during the night, Harry notices the name Peter Pettigrew walking in Hogwarts. He goes to try and find Peter and Old Man in Portrait tells him to put out his wand light. Peter somehow walks past Harry without Harry seeing him and Snape catches him, but not before Harry manages to change the map back to a simple parchment. Lupin walks up and takes the map. The Old Man in Portrait then yells at Snape to turn off his wand light. Lupin chastises Harry for not handing the map over and before leaving Harry tells Lupin he saw Peter's name on the map. During Divination class, Trelawney tells Hermione she knew from the start that she wouldn't have the ability for divination and tells her that her heart and soul are dry and shriveled and Hermione knocks the crystal ball to the ground and storms out of class. When Harry goes to return the crystal ball after class, Trelawney, who is in a trance, tells Harry, Sirius will return that night.