Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban takes place during Harry's third year at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardy and during Harry's first year as a teenager. In the first two books, Harry defeated the evil wizard Voldemort on two separate occasions, but this third book is strangely absent of the series' main villain. Instead, Harry must face a darker enemy within his own soul, that of despair.
The plot starts when Sirius Black, a convicted mass murderer, escapes Azkaban prison and may be after Harry. As a precaution, Harry's government enlists the help of dark forbidding creatures known as dementors to guard the school. The dementors watch the Hogwarts' grounds ready to attack Sirius Black if he attempts to enter. But the dementors may not hold to just attacking Black. Whenever a dementor draws near, a person is filled with haunting memories and despair so great that they believe they can never be happy again. With the ever present threat of Sirius Black dwelling in the background, Harry must live in a darker world than he has ever known, facing dementors at every turn and being continuously stalked by his own grief and fear.
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