Gestimer is a beautiful Mac menu bar app for those little reminders during the day. Simply drag the Gestimer menu bar icon onto the screen to create your reminder. Drag & drop from the menu bar to create short-term reminders. Quickly add descriptions to your reminders. Receive a notification for your reminders. Gestimer for mac. Gestimer is a beautiful Mac menu bar app for those little reminders during the day. Simply drag the Gestimer menu bar icon onto the screen. Do you constantly check the time while using your Mac because you don't want to forget to leave the house in 10 minutes, to pick up the kids at 4pm, or to turn off the stove in 3 minutes?
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry and his friends through the excitement that is their third year at Hogwarts. In the start of the book, we find Harry doing his homework by flashlight under his bed sheets- as any proof of his time at that wizarding school is forbidden by the. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban opens on the night before Harry's thirteenth birthday, when he receives gifts by Owl Post from his friends at school. The next morning at breakfast, Harry sees on television that a man named Black is on the loose from prison.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban SummaryPoor Harry Potter is stuck spending another summer with his odious relatives, the Dursleys, who really should've had Child Protective Services called on them years ago. After putting up with lots of rotten treatment, Harry finally loses his temper and blows up his Aunt Marge (like a balloon, not like a bomb). So Harry hightails it out of Number 4 Privet Drive and gets picked up by the Knight Bus, which takes him to Diagon Alley and thus back to the wizarding world. (Click the to download.)Harry isn't punished for his 'crime' (he's not allowed to practice magic outside of school) and soon finds out why: turns out, a dangerous prisoner, Sirius Black, has escaped from Azkaban and is hunting down Harry. Given how many times he's faced off with homicidal maniacs, Harry isn't all that concerned about this development. The real problem is that he doesn't have permission to visit Hogsmeade, the wizarding village near Hogwarts, this school year.
Now this is a serious bummer.Harry reunites with his two BFFs, Ron and Hermione, and the three head back to Hogwarts with something new in tow: Hermione's adopted cat, Crookshanks (who is rather hideous and super smart). Crookshanks, of course, has it in for Ron's pathetic rat, Scabbers, which leads to a long series of arguments between Ron and Hermione.
So what else is new?On the way back to school, some Dementors, the scary guards of Azkaban, enter the train to look for Sirius Black. Being around the creepy Dementors makes Harry hear his parents' death at Voldemort's hand, and often makes him faint (not something that most teenaged boys hope for).At Hogwarts, changes are afoot. Remus Lupin arrives as the awesome new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and Hagrid is the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher. The year progresses and Harry is busy kicking butt in Quidditch, Hermione is swamped with her insane course load, Hagrid is eagerly (with Hermione's help) trying to prove that his hippogriff isn't dangerous before a tribunal, and Ron is consumed with worrying about Scabbers. Meanwhile, everyone is preoccupied with fear of Sirius Black, who breaks into Hogwarts twice during the school year.Harry devotes most of his time to three things: Quidditch (which pays off since he and his team win the Quidditch Cup, finally), sneaking into Hogsmeade (courtesy of a magical map provided by Fred and George), and working with Professor Lupin on casting the Patronus spell, a defense against Dementors.
(Click the to download.)Midway through the year, the boys stop speaking to Hermione after her cat presumably kills Scabbers and after she turns Harry's anonymously gifted Firebolt broomstick to Professor McGonagall for inspection. The trio eventually reconcile in time to help Hagrid with his eleventh-hour appeal to save Buckbeak, his hippogriff. Harry gets a cryptic spoiler alert about the book's climactic moments from the Divination teacher, Professor Trelawney, who predicts that Voldemort's servant will return to his master.
Yikes.Hagrid loses the appeal. On the day of Buckbeak's execution, the Harry, Ron, and Hermione find Scabbers alive and well in Hagrid's cabin.
Things get nuts after this. Scabbers runs off, a giant black dog attacks and drags Ron and Scabbers into the creepy Shrieking Shack, Ron's leg gets broken, and Harry and Hermione follow. Soon Lupin and Snape show up and we learn the shocking truths: Lupin is a werewolf, Sirius Black is an Animagus (meaning he turns into the giant black dog at will) and Scabbers the rat is really Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort's servant and the real criminal (Sirius was framed), hiding in his Animagus form. As it turns out, Sirius Black is a good guy and Harry's godfather.Pettigrew escapes and Sirius is captured by the Dementors. Before we can get too depressed, though, Dumbledore arrives and instructs Hermione to use her Time-Turner to fix everything.
So Harry and Hermione travel back in time to that afternoon and manage to save both Buckbeak and Sirius. Harry saves Sirius by casting a super powerful Patronus against the creepy Dementors (he didn't even faint!).The school year ends and everyone heads home for the summer. Lupin is forced to resign (because he's a werewolf); Sirius, who is now in hiding, writes Harry a letter; and the BFF trio parts ways for yet another summer. Chapter 1. The Leaky Cauldron. Harry is having the best summer ever in Diagon Alley. He's free to do whatever he likes and he spends his days wandering around, working on his homework, and eating free ice cream sundaes (being the defeater of Voldemort really pays off).
One day, Harry sees the coolest thing ever: a brand new broom called the Firebolt. It's super expensive, though, so Harry restrains himself from buying one.
Harry runs errands and starts buying his supplies for the school year. At the bookstore, he picks up his books for a new subject, Divination, which is about predicting the future. He also learns that the Monster Book he got is a course book for Care of Magical Creatures. The books are all eating each other in a display case, much to the store owner's horror. Harry sees the large black dog on a book cover and gets nervous – turns out the black dog is a death omen. Finally, Hermione, Ron, and the other Weasleys arrive in Diagon Alley.
(Click the to download.). Harry goes shopping with his friends and they all head to a magical pet shop so Hermione can get an owl. Ron also takes Scabbers to get him checked out. Scabbers has been looking sick since the Weasleys returned from Egypt. The trip to the shop is eventful since a giant orange cat jumps on Ron. The boys wait outside and Hermione appears with her new pet: that ugly orange cat, whose name is Crookshanks. The trio go back to The Leaky Cauldron and have an entertaining dinner with the Weasleys.
Fred and George ham it up and make fun of Percy, who acts more smug than usual since he was made Head Boy at Hogwarts. Mr. Weasley tells the kids that they'll be taking Ministry cars to the train station tomorrow to catch the Hogwarts Express. Everyone finds this a bit odd. Later that night, Harry walks in on a fight between Ron and Percy. Percy can't find his Head Boy badge and Ron has lost his rat tonic. When Harry goes downstairs to get the tonic, he overhears Molly and Arthur Weasley discussing Sirius Black: 'Always the same words: 'He's at Hogwarts.
he's at Hogwarts.' Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry dead' (4.3.34). Turns out that Black is after Harry and Arthur wants to tell him; Molly disagrees.
Arthur tells Molly that some guards from Azkaban are coming to guard Hogwarts until Black is caught and Dumbledore isn't thrilled about it. The couple goes off to bed and a stunned Harry returns the rat tonic to Ron. He also encounters the twins, who reveal that they stole Percy's badge and charmed it to read 'Bighead Boy' (4.3.46).
Good one. Harry goes to bed and realizes that he isn't all that afraid. He's faced Voldemort, after all, and he trusts Dumbledore to keep him safe at Hogwarts.
What really upsets Harry is that with Black on the loose, he probably can't go to Hogsmeade with his friends. Well, that's one way to deal with learning that a homicidal maniac is after you. Chapter 5. The Dementor. After a hectic morning, the Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione all set off for King's Cross Station. Arthur sticks close to Harry at the station and takes him aside to talk before Harry boards the train. Harry tells Mr.
Weasley that he overheard him discussing Black and that he isn't afraid. But Mr. Weasley is still concerned and he tells Harry something odd: 'Harry, swear to me you won't go looking for Black' (5.41).
Harry thinks this is bizarre. Once on the train, Harry, Ron, and Hermione find a compartment occupied by a sleeping adult named Professor R.J. Talons and Tea Leaves.
Harry's first day of school gets off to a bad start when a bunch of Slytherins make fun of him for passing out on the train. Fred and George tell Harry to cheer up as they hand out class schedules. Ron and Harry are confused over how jam-packed Hermione's schedule is. Flight of the Fat Lady.
Defense Against the Dark Arts becomes everyone's favorite class. Lupin does lots of practical lessons, which are fun.
However, Potions become worse than usual: 'Snape was in a particularly vindictive mood these days, and no one was in any doubt why. The story of the boggart assuming Snape's shape, and the way that Neville had dressed it in his grandmother's clothes, had traveled through the school like wildfire. Grim Defeat.
Dumbledore sends all the students to the Great Hall to spend the night. The Professors spend the night searching the school for Black and making sure that things are secure. No one can sleep and everyone stays up late at the world's largest slumber party, talking about Black. Much later that night, the trio overhear Snape, Percy, and Dumbledore talking about Black too.
No one knows how Black got in, but Snape hints that he has a theory. Dumbledore seems to shut him down, though. Things slowly go back to normal. But while the Fat Lady gets restored, the Gryffindors have to put up with her replacement: Sir Cadogan.
Percy begins following Harry around and McGonagall informs Harry about Black being after him, which he already knows, of course. She tries to get Harry to stop going to Quidditch practice but he protests, and she finally agrees to let him practice as long as he has teacher supervision. The Quidditch team faces a setback when they learn that they'll be playing Hufflepuff rather than Slytherin in their first match of the year. Malfoy claims that his arm is still busted and that he can't play.
Right. It's the day before the match, and Harry is late to Defense Against the Dark Arts due to Oliver Wood, who waylays him in the hall with last-minute Quidditch advice. Unfortunately for Harry, Snape is the substitute teacher that day.
Snape proceeds to insult and infuriate the entire class, and then assigns them a crazy essay on werewolves. Ron loses his temper, as usual, and ends up with detention.
The day of the match is very stormy and windy. Quidditch is so hard core that they play in any weather. Harry's day gets off to a crappy start too, when Peeves wakes him up at the crack of dawn. The team is nervous and miserable in the rain. The Marauder's Map.
Harry stays in the hospital for the rest of the weekend and gets lots of visits from his friends. But he can't stop thinking about hearing his mother's murder, something he doesn't tell anyone: 'Harry felt sick and humiliated every time he thought of them. Everyone said the Dementors were horrible, but no one else collapsed every time they went near one. No one else heard echoes in their head of their dying parents' (10.1.4). Thankfully, Lupin returns to class and ensures everyone that they don't need to do Snape's unfair werewolf essay.
Lupin pulls Harry aside to discuss the Quidditch match. Harry tells Lupin everything: what happens when he's around the Dementors, and that he's really worried about them. Lupin tells Harry that he can teach him a way to fight them after the holidays. Christmas approaches and it's time for another Hogsmeade trip. Harry resigns himself to a boring Saturday, but he's suddenly yanked aside by Fred and George. The twins let Harry in on their greatest secret: the Marauder's Map.
They found the map their first year and discovered that it lists all the secret passages in and out of the school. Plus, the map shows everyone inside the castle, making it easy to monitor things and to skirt professors. Harry is amazed.
The twins show him a passage that leads directly to Hogsmeade and wish him good luck. So Harry sets off and manages to successfully sneak into Hogsmeade. Ron and Hermione are thrilled to see their friend. The Firebolt. Harry returns to the castle in shock over what he's heard. He's angry that no one ever told him the full story.
Harry goes up to his room to look at the photo album Hagrid made for him, full of old pictures of his parents. He searches through it until he finds his parents' wedding photo.
Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. Ron and Hermione's friendship has effectively come to an end over the seeming murder of Scabbers. Ron is furious and upset. Cat, Rat, and Dog.
They all stand still in shock. But then Scabbers starts squirming even more and he finally breaks free from Ron's grasp and makes a run for it. We didn't think Ron was that bad of a pet owner. (Click the to download.). Ron has some disturbing news for his rescue party, though: 'He's the dog. he's an Animagus.'
(17.72). What?. Just then a filthy man emerges from the shadows: it's either a vampire or Sirius Black. OK, it's totally Sirius Black (who's doing a fantastic impression of a vampire.
And not one of those sparkling, hot Twilight vampires either). 'The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of his face, it looked like a skull' (17.74). Yikes. Black disarms Hermione and Harry with Ron's wand and thanks them for stopping. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide that Black and Lupin are insane.
Black doesn't seem to care much about that verdict and lunges for Scabbers/Peter to finish the job. Of killing him. The Servant of Lord Voldemort. Sirius and Snape instantly resume their years-old grudge match and start threatening and insulting one another. The kids try to calm Snape down but he finally loses his cool and starts shouting at them all to shut up. 'But there was a mad glint in Snape's eyes that Harry had never seen before. He seemed beyond reason' (19.20).
Back away slowly, Harry. Instead, Harry opts to yell back at Snape and calls him out for being a pathetic loser who can't get over a grade school prank. Snape yells back and insults Harry's family. So Harry goes to disarm Snape, but Ron and Hermione had the same thought and Snape gets slammed with a triple dose of Expelliarmus.
Whoops. He's down for the count, and everyone returns to Story Time with Professor Lupin. German body composition program charles poliquin.
They finally get down to the business of Peter. Black takes over the story and says that he saw the picture of Peter in the newspaper, from when Ron's family took their trip to Egypt. He noticed that Ron's rat was missing a toe. Lupin says, 'Didn't you ever hear, Ron? Hermione's Secret.
When Harry comes around, he's back in the hospital wing (again). He overhears Fudge and Snape talking. Fudge says Snape will likely get an Order of Merlin award for his 'heroics' in rescuing the kids from an escaped convict and a werewolf and a gang of Dementors. Snape modestly says it was nothing.
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is having a tough time with his relatives (yet again). He runs away after using magic to inflate Uncle Vernon's (Richard Griffiths') sister Marge (Pam Ferris), who was being offensive towards Harry's parents.
Initially scared for using magic outside the school, he is pleasantly surprised that he won't be penalized after all. However, he soon learns that a dangerous criminal and Voldemort's trusted aide Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban Prison and wants to kill Harry to avenge the Dark Lord. To worsen the conditions for Harry, vile creatures called Dementors are appointed to guard the school gates and inexplicably happen to have the most horrible effect on him.
Little does Harry know that by the end of this year, many holes in his past (whatever he knows of it) will be filled up and he will have a clearer vision of what the future has in store. This third Harry Potter film is the best one yet. Director Alphonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, A Little Princess) has taken over from Chris Columbus and has stuck less slavishly to the original JK Rowling Books. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are back as Harry, Ron and Hermoine, with Hermoine in particular getting to do a lot more. There are less Quidditch matches, and more menace, in keeping with the improved complexity of Rowling's third novel. Hogwarts is not safe, Draco Malfoy is no longer a menace, but just a pain in the ass. And the new CGI-scripted character Buckbeak the Hippogriff (half eagle, half horse) looks fantastic and has personality.The kids are all supposed to be thirteen but look older - hey we'll forgive them.
Neville Longbottom has lost so much weight he's almost unrecognisable. Great performances from Emma Thompson hamming it up as the ditsy professor of foretelling, Prof Trelawny, Michael Gambon as the new Professor Dumbledore (not as magical but good), David Thewliss as Prof Lupin, and Gary Oldman as the Prisoner of Azkhaban.Thrilling, complex, menacing,./. stars.
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Gestimer is a beautiful Mac menu bar app for those little reminders during the day. Simply drag the Gestimer menu bar icon onto the screen to create your reminder. Drag & drop from the menu bar to create short-term reminders. Quickly add descriptions to your reminders. Receive a notification for your reminders. Gestimer for mac. Gestimer is a beautiful Mac menu bar app for those little reminders during the day. Simply drag the Gestimer menu bar icon onto the screen. Do you constantly check the time while using your Mac because you don't want to forget to leave the house in 10 minutes, to pick up the kids at 4pm, or to turn off the stove in 3 minutes?
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry and his friends through the excitement that is their third year at Hogwarts. In the start of the book, we find Harry doing his homework by flashlight under his bed sheets- as any proof of his time at that wizarding school is forbidden by the. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban opens on the night before Harry's thirteenth birthday, when he receives gifts by Owl Post from his friends at school. The next morning at breakfast, Harry sees on television that a man named Black is on the loose from prison.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban SummaryPoor Harry Potter is stuck spending another summer with his odious relatives, the Dursleys, who really should've had Child Protective Services called on them years ago. After putting up with lots of rotten treatment, Harry finally loses his temper and blows up his Aunt Marge (like a balloon, not like a bomb). So Harry hightails it out of Number 4 Privet Drive and gets picked up by the Knight Bus, which takes him to Diagon Alley and thus back to the wizarding world. (Click the to download.)Harry isn't punished for his 'crime' (he's not allowed to practice magic outside of school) and soon finds out why: turns out, a dangerous prisoner, Sirius Black, has escaped from Azkaban and is hunting down Harry. Given how many times he's faced off with homicidal maniacs, Harry isn't all that concerned about this development. The real problem is that he doesn't have permission to visit Hogsmeade, the wizarding village near Hogwarts, this school year.
Now this is a serious bummer.Harry reunites with his two BFFs, Ron and Hermione, and the three head back to Hogwarts with something new in tow: Hermione's adopted cat, Crookshanks (who is rather hideous and super smart). Crookshanks, of course, has it in for Ron's pathetic rat, Scabbers, which leads to a long series of arguments between Ron and Hermione.
So what else is new?On the way back to school, some Dementors, the scary guards of Azkaban, enter the train to look for Sirius Black. Being around the creepy Dementors makes Harry hear his parents' death at Voldemort's hand, and often makes him faint (not something that most teenaged boys hope for).At Hogwarts, changes are afoot. Remus Lupin arrives as the awesome new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and Hagrid is the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher. The year progresses and Harry is busy kicking butt in Quidditch, Hermione is swamped with her insane course load, Hagrid is eagerly (with Hermione's help) trying to prove that his hippogriff isn't dangerous before a tribunal, and Ron is consumed with worrying about Scabbers. Meanwhile, everyone is preoccupied with fear of Sirius Black, who breaks into Hogwarts twice during the school year.Harry devotes most of his time to three things: Quidditch (which pays off since he and his team win the Quidditch Cup, finally), sneaking into Hogsmeade (courtesy of a magical map provided by Fred and George), and working with Professor Lupin on casting the Patronus spell, a defense against Dementors.
(Click the to download.)Midway through the year, the boys stop speaking to Hermione after her cat presumably kills Scabbers and after she turns Harry's anonymously gifted Firebolt broomstick to Professor McGonagall for inspection. The trio eventually reconcile in time to help Hagrid with his eleventh-hour appeal to save Buckbeak, his hippogriff. Harry gets a cryptic spoiler alert about the book's climactic moments from the Divination teacher, Professor Trelawney, who predicts that Voldemort's servant will return to his master.
Yikes.Hagrid loses the appeal. On the day of Buckbeak's execution, the Harry, Ron, and Hermione find Scabbers alive and well in Hagrid's cabin.
Things get nuts after this. Scabbers runs off, a giant black dog attacks and drags Ron and Scabbers into the creepy Shrieking Shack, Ron's leg gets broken, and Harry and Hermione follow. Soon Lupin and Snape show up and we learn the shocking truths: Lupin is a werewolf, Sirius Black is an Animagus (meaning he turns into the giant black dog at will) and Scabbers the rat is really Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort's servant and the real criminal (Sirius was framed), hiding in his Animagus form. As it turns out, Sirius Black is a good guy and Harry's godfather.Pettigrew escapes and Sirius is captured by the Dementors. Before we can get too depressed, though, Dumbledore arrives and instructs Hermione to use her Time-Turner to fix everything.
So Harry and Hermione travel back in time to that afternoon and manage to save both Buckbeak and Sirius. Harry saves Sirius by casting a super powerful Patronus against the creepy Dementors (he didn't even faint!).The school year ends and everyone heads home for the summer. Lupin is forced to resign (because he's a werewolf); Sirius, who is now in hiding, writes Harry a letter; and the BFF trio parts ways for yet another summer. Chapter 1. The Leaky Cauldron. Harry is having the best summer ever in Diagon Alley. He's free to do whatever he likes and he spends his days wandering around, working on his homework, and eating free ice cream sundaes (being the defeater of Voldemort really pays off).
One day, Harry sees the coolest thing ever: a brand new broom called the Firebolt. It's super expensive, though, so Harry restrains himself from buying one.
Harry runs errands and starts buying his supplies for the school year. At the bookstore, he picks up his books for a new subject, Divination, which is about predicting the future. He also learns that the Monster Book he got is a course book for Care of Magical Creatures. The books are all eating each other in a display case, much to the store owner's horror. Harry sees the large black dog on a book cover and gets nervous – turns out the black dog is a death omen. Finally, Hermione, Ron, and the other Weasleys arrive in Diagon Alley.
(Click the to download.). Harry goes shopping with his friends and they all head to a magical pet shop so Hermione can get an owl. Ron also takes Scabbers to get him checked out. Scabbers has been looking sick since the Weasleys returned from Egypt. The trip to the shop is eventful since a giant orange cat jumps on Ron. The boys wait outside and Hermione appears with her new pet: that ugly orange cat, whose name is Crookshanks. The trio go back to The Leaky Cauldron and have an entertaining dinner with the Weasleys.
Fred and George ham it up and make fun of Percy, who acts more smug than usual since he was made Head Boy at Hogwarts. Mr. Weasley tells the kids that they'll be taking Ministry cars to the train station tomorrow to catch the Hogwarts Express. Everyone finds this a bit odd. Later that night, Harry walks in on a fight between Ron and Percy. Percy can't find his Head Boy badge and Ron has lost his rat tonic. When Harry goes downstairs to get the tonic, he overhears Molly and Arthur Weasley discussing Sirius Black: 'Always the same words: 'He's at Hogwarts.
he's at Hogwarts.' Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry dead' (4.3.34). Turns out that Black is after Harry and Arthur wants to tell him; Molly disagrees.
Arthur tells Molly that some guards from Azkaban are coming to guard Hogwarts until Black is caught and Dumbledore isn't thrilled about it. The couple goes off to bed and a stunned Harry returns the rat tonic to Ron. He also encounters the twins, who reveal that they stole Percy's badge and charmed it to read 'Bighead Boy' (4.3.46).
Good one. Harry goes to bed and realizes that he isn't all that afraid. He's faced Voldemort, after all, and he trusts Dumbledore to keep him safe at Hogwarts.
What really upsets Harry is that with Black on the loose, he probably can't go to Hogsmeade with his friends. Well, that's one way to deal with learning that a homicidal maniac is after you. Chapter 5. The Dementor. After a hectic morning, the Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione all set off for King's Cross Station. Arthur sticks close to Harry at the station and takes him aside to talk before Harry boards the train. Harry tells Mr.
Weasley that he overheard him discussing Black and that he isn't afraid. But Mr. Weasley is still concerned and he tells Harry something odd: 'Harry, swear to me you won't go looking for Black' (5.41).
Harry thinks this is bizarre. Once on the train, Harry, Ron, and Hermione find a compartment occupied by a sleeping adult named Professor R.J. Talons and Tea Leaves.
Harry's first day of school gets off to a bad start when a bunch of Slytherins make fun of him for passing out on the train. Fred and George tell Harry to cheer up as they hand out class schedules. Ron and Harry are confused over how jam-packed Hermione's schedule is. Flight of the Fat Lady.
Defense Against the Dark Arts becomes everyone's favorite class. Lupin does lots of practical lessons, which are fun.
However, Potions become worse than usual: 'Snape was in a particularly vindictive mood these days, and no one was in any doubt why. The story of the boggart assuming Snape's shape, and the way that Neville had dressed it in his grandmother's clothes, had traveled through the school like wildfire. Grim Defeat.
Dumbledore sends all the students to the Great Hall to spend the night. The Professors spend the night searching the school for Black and making sure that things are secure. No one can sleep and everyone stays up late at the world's largest slumber party, talking about Black. Much later that night, the trio overhear Snape, Percy, and Dumbledore talking about Black too.
No one knows how Black got in, but Snape hints that he has a theory. Dumbledore seems to shut him down, though. Things slowly go back to normal. But while the Fat Lady gets restored, the Gryffindors have to put up with her replacement: Sir Cadogan.
Percy begins following Harry around and McGonagall informs Harry about Black being after him, which he already knows, of course. She tries to get Harry to stop going to Quidditch practice but he protests, and she finally agrees to let him practice as long as he has teacher supervision. The Quidditch team faces a setback when they learn that they'll be playing Hufflepuff rather than Slytherin in their first match of the year. Malfoy claims that his arm is still busted and that he can't play.
Right. It's the day before the match, and Harry is late to Defense Against the Dark Arts due to Oliver Wood, who waylays him in the hall with last-minute Quidditch advice. Unfortunately for Harry, Snape is the substitute teacher that day.
Snape proceeds to insult and infuriate the entire class, and then assigns them a crazy essay on werewolves. Ron loses his temper, as usual, and ends up with detention.
The day of the match is very stormy and windy. Quidditch is so hard core that they play in any weather. Harry's day gets off to a crappy start too, when Peeves wakes him up at the crack of dawn. The team is nervous and miserable in the rain. The Marauder's Map.
Harry stays in the hospital for the rest of the weekend and gets lots of visits from his friends. But he can't stop thinking about hearing his mother's murder, something he doesn't tell anyone: 'Harry felt sick and humiliated every time he thought of them. Everyone said the Dementors were horrible, but no one else collapsed every time they went near one. No one else heard echoes in their head of their dying parents' (10.1.4). Thankfully, Lupin returns to class and ensures everyone that they don't need to do Snape's unfair werewolf essay.
Lupin pulls Harry aside to discuss the Quidditch match. Harry tells Lupin everything: what happens when he's around the Dementors, and that he's really worried about them. Lupin tells Harry that he can teach him a way to fight them after the holidays. Christmas approaches and it's time for another Hogsmeade trip. Harry resigns himself to a boring Saturday, but he's suddenly yanked aside by Fred and George. The twins let Harry in on their greatest secret: the Marauder's Map.
They found the map their first year and discovered that it lists all the secret passages in and out of the school. Plus, the map shows everyone inside the castle, making it easy to monitor things and to skirt professors. Harry is amazed.
The twins show him a passage that leads directly to Hogsmeade and wish him good luck. So Harry sets off and manages to successfully sneak into Hogsmeade. Ron and Hermione are thrilled to see their friend. The Firebolt. Harry returns to the castle in shock over what he's heard. He's angry that no one ever told him the full story.
Harry goes up to his room to look at the photo album Hagrid made for him, full of old pictures of his parents. He searches through it until he finds his parents' wedding photo.
Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. Ron and Hermione's friendship has effectively come to an end over the seeming murder of Scabbers. Ron is furious and upset. Cat, Rat, and Dog.
They all stand still in shock. But then Scabbers starts squirming even more and he finally breaks free from Ron's grasp and makes a run for it. We didn't think Ron was that bad of a pet owner. (Click the to download.). Ron has some disturbing news for his rescue party, though: 'He's the dog. he's an Animagus.'
(17.72). What?. Just then a filthy man emerges from the shadows: it's either a vampire or Sirius Black. OK, it's totally Sirius Black (who's doing a fantastic impression of a vampire.
And not one of those sparkling, hot Twilight vampires either). 'The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of his face, it looked like a skull' (17.74). Yikes. Black disarms Hermione and Harry with Ron's wand and thanks them for stopping. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide that Black and Lupin are insane.
Black doesn't seem to care much about that verdict and lunges for Scabbers/Peter to finish the job. Of killing him. The Servant of Lord Voldemort. Sirius and Snape instantly resume their years-old grudge match and start threatening and insulting one another. The kids try to calm Snape down but he finally loses his cool and starts shouting at them all to shut up. 'But there was a mad glint in Snape's eyes that Harry had never seen before. He seemed beyond reason' (19.20).
Back away slowly, Harry. Instead, Harry opts to yell back at Snape and calls him out for being a pathetic loser who can't get over a grade school prank. Snape yells back and insults Harry's family. So Harry goes to disarm Snape, but Ron and Hermione had the same thought and Snape gets slammed with a triple dose of Expelliarmus.
Whoops. He's down for the count, and everyone returns to Story Time with Professor Lupin. German body composition program charles poliquin.
They finally get down to the business of Peter. Black takes over the story and says that he saw the picture of Peter in the newspaper, from when Ron's family took their trip to Egypt. He noticed that Ron's rat was missing a toe. Lupin says, 'Didn't you ever hear, Ron? Hermione's Secret.
When Harry comes around, he's back in the hospital wing (again). He overhears Fudge and Snape talking. Fudge says Snape will likely get an Order of Merlin award for his 'heroics' in rescuing the kids from an escaped convict and a werewolf and a gang of Dementors. Snape modestly says it was nothing.
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is having a tough time with his relatives (yet again). He runs away after using magic to inflate Uncle Vernon's (Richard Griffiths') sister Marge (Pam Ferris), who was being offensive towards Harry's parents.
Initially scared for using magic outside the school, he is pleasantly surprised that he won't be penalized after all. However, he soon learns that a dangerous criminal and Voldemort's trusted aide Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban Prison and wants to kill Harry to avenge the Dark Lord. To worsen the conditions for Harry, vile creatures called Dementors are appointed to guard the school gates and inexplicably happen to have the most horrible effect on him.
Little does Harry know that by the end of this year, many holes in his past (whatever he knows of it) will be filled up and he will have a clearer vision of what the future has in store. This third Harry Potter film is the best one yet. Director Alphonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, A Little Princess) has taken over from Chris Columbus and has stuck less slavishly to the original JK Rowling Books. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are back as Harry, Ron and Hermoine, with Hermoine in particular getting to do a lot more. There are less Quidditch matches, and more menace, in keeping with the improved complexity of Rowling's third novel. Hogwarts is not safe, Draco Malfoy is no longer a menace, but just a pain in the ass. And the new CGI-scripted character Buckbeak the Hippogriff (half eagle, half horse) looks fantastic and has personality.The kids are all supposed to be thirteen but look older - hey we'll forgive them.
Neville Longbottom has lost so much weight he's almost unrecognisable. Great performances from Emma Thompson hamming it up as the ditsy professor of foretelling, Prof Trelawny, Michael Gambon as the new Professor Dumbledore (not as magical but good), David Thewliss as Prof Lupin, and Gary Oldman as the Prisoner of Azkhaban.Thrilling, complex, menacing,./. stars.