Friday, June 7, 2013

June 7 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Herer is the film with a scene that happens today - June 7. I hope you enjoy it and watch it tonight. 

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

When his Uncle Vernon’s sister Madge comes to visit and makes disparaging remarks about Harry’s parents, he curses her, causing her to inflate and float away. Harry leaves and catches the Knight Bus, a magic transport for witches and wizards which takes him to the Leaky Cauldron at Diagon alley.  On the way he learns about the mass murderer Sirius Black, who has escaped from the wizarding prison of Azkaban. At the Leaky Cauldron  Harry meets Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic and to his surprise is not punished for illegally using magic. Mr. Weasley tells Harry Sirius Black wants to kill him. On the train to Hogwarts, new professor R. J. Lupin saves Harry from a dementor attack. The dementors, which usually guard Azkaban now guard Hogwarts. Hagrid’s first class as a professor goes wrong as Buckbeak, the hippogriff bites Draco Malfoy. Harry sneaks into the village of Hogsmede using his invisibility cloak and learns that Sirius Black betrayed his parents and killed their friend Peter Pettigrew. Harry learns how to defeat dementors and Buckbeak is ordered executed. On the day of the execution, Hagrid refuses to let Harry, Ron or Hermione watch, but they observe from afar. A black dog attacks Ron and drags him to the shrieking shack, where Sirius Black appears. Harry is about to kill Sirius, when Lupin appears and disarms Harry. The two tell the three friends that it was actually Peter Pettigrew who betrayed Harry’s parents and has been hiding as Ron’s rat, Scabbers ever since.  On the way back to the castle to turn Pettigrew in Lupin turns into a werewolf and Pettigrew escapes. Harry follows Sirius and both are attacked by dementors. Someone drives them away. Sirius is caught and sentenced to have his soul sucked out by the dementors. Hermione and Harry use her time-turner to go back three hours. They hide Buckbeak so he’s not killed. It was Harry who saved himself and Sirius from the dementors. He and Hermione use Buckbeak to rescue Sirius. The next day June 7, 1994 Lupin resigns and leaves Hogwarts. [2:05:50 to 2:09:35]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Inc., New York, 1999) pages 418-428. We are told that the execution of Buckbeak was set for June 6 (page 400). Lupin leaves “the next day” (page 421)


Producer - Chris Columbus, David Heyman and Mark Radcliffe

Director - Alfonso Cuarón

Screenplay - Steve Kloves

Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects
                 Oscars at the 77th Academy Awards. 

Runtime – 2 hours 22 minutes

Released – May 31, 2004

Starring -

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend.
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Harry's other best friend
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid, Care of Magical Creatures teacher
Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts Headmaster
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley, Harry's Muggle uncle.
Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, an escapee from the Wizarding prison Azkaban
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, the Potions master at Hogwarts
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley, Harry's Muggle aunt
Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts
Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew, a friend of Harry's parents
David Thewlis as Remus Lupin, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher
Emma Thompson as Sybill Trelawney, the  Divination teacher at Hogwarts.
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley, the Weasley matriarch and a mother figure to Harry



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