Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Symbols

Witch Hunts

Though Harry offers little insight into his third-year History of Magic curriculum, it presumably deals with historical witch hunts: Harry spends much of his time in Diagon Alley writing his summer homework essays on witch…

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Dementors

Dementors are the non-human guards of the wizard prison Azkaban; they're tall, hooded figures with rotting flesh. They feed on happiness and souls and guard prisoners by sapping them of any happy thoughts, thereby compromising…

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