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Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriend a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dusleys,his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is the tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in 11 years. But all that is about to change when a msterious letter arrives by owl messanger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, arial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waitng for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.

The Dursleys were so mean that hideous summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who aunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something-- starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself!

For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban gaurds heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts." Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all there may as well be a traitor intheir midst.

You have in your hands the pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part tale of Harry Potter's training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pericious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). he wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wantsa to be a normal fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunatly for Harry Potter, he's not normal--even by wizarding standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.