Harry Potter 3 and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter books. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. Harry's story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, and which is now playing in multiple locations around the world. She is also the author of a bestselling crime fiction series, and two stand-alone children's novels, The Ickabog and The Christmas Pig. J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including the OBE and Companion of Honour, and a Blue Peter Gold Badge. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant and is the founder of the international children's care reform charity Lumos. J.K. Rowling lives in Scotland with her family. To find out more about J.K. Rowling visit jkrowlingstories.com.

Diesmal läuft in den Ferien schon alles so schief, dass Harry befürchten muss, aus Hogwarts rauszufliegen, weil er seine unerträgliche Muggeltante Magda mit einem Schwebezauber an die Zimmerdecke befördert hat und dann ganz einfach abgehauen ist. Und während er sich noch ausmalte, ein Leben als Verbannter zu führen, fängt ihn das Zauberministerium ein und er landet zu seiner eigenen Verblüffung pünktlich zum Schulbeginn im Schloss. Doch jetzt geht der Ärger erst richtig los! Wieso versteckt sich ein in allen Welten gefürchteter Verbrecher im Schloß? Wie konnte er überhaupt eindringen? Und wieso ist er eigentlich hinter Harry her? Irgendwie scheint Harry die Sache viel komplizierter, als man ihn glauben machen möchte. Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden Ron und Hermine versucht er, ein Geflecht aus Verrat, Rache, Verleumdung und Feigheit aufzudröseln, und stößt dabei auf schier unglaubliche Dinge, die ihn fast an seinem Verstand zweifeln lassen.

The third adventure in the spellbinding Harry Potter series, the publishing phenomenon that changed the world of books forever

Sales of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels total over 450 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 77 languages