Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Trivia
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150 free Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Prisoner of Azkaban is the Harry Potter book with no Voldemort, a werewolf teacher, a rat who is really a man and a time-travel ending, and the film that turned the series dark under Alfonso Cuaron. This Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban trivia quiz covers both: Aunt Marge inflating, the Knight Bus, the Dementors on the Hogwarts Express, Lupin's Patronus lessons, Buckbeak and Draco, the Marauder's Map, the Three Broomsticks eavesdrop, the Shrieking Shack reveal, Hermione's Time-Turner and the Firebolt at the end. It also covers the making of the story: how quickly the book sold in July 1999, the awards it won, why Michael Gambon replaced Richard Harris, why Ian McKellen said no, the essays Cuaron made the young cast write, the Glen Coe and Glenfinnan locations, John Williams's Double Trouble, the Oscar nominations and why the highest-rated Potter film is also the lowest-grossing. Forty-eight questions run from easy for anyone who has read book three to expert for fans who know their proof editions. Every answer is checked against documented sources, so it works for a Potter night, a book club or a family movie round.
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Q 01Prisoner of Azkaban is which book in the Harry Potter series?
The third
It covers Harry's third year at Hogwarts, the year without Voldemort.
Q 02On what date was the book published in the UK by Bloomsbury?
8 July 1999
8 July 1999: Bloomsbury published Prisoner of Azkaban in the UK on that date, with Scholastic's American edition following on 8 September 1999.
Q 03Why was the UK release timed for 3.45pm?
So children would not skip school to buy it
So children would not skip school: Bloomsbury held the UK release until 3.45pm on 8 July 1999, after the school day had ended, to stop pupils playing truant to buy it.
Q 04Whose Beowulf translation beat Prisoner of Azkaban to the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year?
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation took the overall 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year after Prisoner of Azkaban had won the children's category, the judges splitting five votes to four.
Q 05Prisoner of Azkaban was the first Potter book shortlisted for which science-fiction and fantasy prize?
The Hugo Award
It lost the 2000 Best Novel Hugo to Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky; Goblet of Fire won the following year.
Q 06Which relative does Harry accidentally inflate at the start of the story?
Aunt Marge
Aunt Marge, Vernon's sister, swells up like a balloon after insulting Harry's parents; Pam Ferris played her in the film in prosthetic bodies that inflated at different rates.
Q 07What vehicle picks Harry up after he runs away from the Dursleys?
The Knight Bus
The Knight Bus, a violently purple triple-decker for stranded witches and wizards, appears with a bang when Harry throws out his wand arm on Magnolia Crescent; Muggles cannot see it.
Q 08Who plays Stan Shunpike, the conductor of the enchanted triple-decker bus, in the film?
Lee Ingleby
Lee Ingleby plays Stan Shunpike, the spotty young conductor of the Knight Bus; Ingleby later starred as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus in Inspector George Gently.
Q 09Which Minister for Magic meets Harry at the Leaky Cauldron and tells him he will not be punished?
Cornelius Fudge
Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, is waiting at the Leaky Cauldron and waves away the Marge incident; Robert Hardy plays him in the film.
Q 10What creatures board the Hogwarts Express searching for Sirius Black?
Dementors
Dementors, the hooded guards of Azkaban, stop the Hogwarts Express to search it for Sirius Black; Rowling based them on her own experience of depression.
Q 11Which spell repels the guards of Azkaban?
The Patronus Charm
The Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) conjures a silvery guardian from a happy memory that drives Dementors back; Lupin teaches it to Harry privately after he faints during the Quidditch match.
Q 12What is the name of the soul-sucking act performed by the guards of Azkaban?
The Dementor's Kiss
The Dementor's Kiss sucks the victim's soul out through the mouth, leaving an empty living body; Fudge authorises it for Sirius after his recapture, though Harry and Hermione free him first.
Q 13Which subject does Professor Lupin teach?
Defence Against the Dark Arts
Q 21What is the name of Hermione's cat?
Crookshanks
Crookshanks, the bandy-legged ginger cat Hermione buys at the Magical Menagerie, keeps chasing Scabbers; Ron blames him when the rat vanishes and the two stop speaking.
Q 22Ron is dragged by a large black dog through a passage under which tree?
The Whomping Willow
The Whomping Willow, planted the year Lupin arrived at Hogwarts, flails at anyone who comes near; the dog drags Ron into a tunnel beneath its roots.
Q 23Where does the big reveal about Sirius, Lupin and Pettigrew take place?
The Shrieking Shack
The Shrieking Shack, the boarded-up house above Hogsmeade that villagers believe is haunted, is where Sirius and Lupin corner Pettigrew in the bedroom at the tunnel's end.
Defence Against the Dark Arts: Lupin follows Quirrell and Lockhart in the post and, unlike them, teaches practical lessons on boggarts, Red Caps, Kappas and Grindylows.
Q 14Which Hogsmeade joke shop sells Harry Dungbombs and a Nose-Biting Teacup?
Zonko's
Zonko's Joke Shop in Hogsmeade, packed with students, is where Harry buys Dungbombs, Hiccough Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap and a Nose-Biting Teacup while hidden under the Invisibility Cloak.
Q 15Hagrid takes over which teaching post this year?
Care of Magical Creatures
Care of Magical Creatures: Hagrid takes over from the retiring Professor Kettleburn, and his first lesson ends with Malfoy injured after insulting Buckbeak.
Q 16What kind of creature is Buckbeak?
A hippogriff
A hippogriff, with the head, wings and forelegs of a giant eagle on a horse's body; Buckbeak must be bowed to before he is approached.
Q 17Who gives Harry the Marauder's Map?
Fred and George Weasley
Fred and George Weasley, who nicked it from Filch's office in their first year, hand the map to Harry so he can sneak into Hogsmeade.
Q 18Who created the Marauder's Map?
Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew
Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew made the map as Hogwarts students, signing it with their Marauder nicknames; Lupin, recognising it, confiscates the map from Harry.
Q 19In which pub does Harry overhear that Sirius Black is his godfather?
The Three Broomsticks
The Three Broomsticks: hidden under a table, Harry hears Fudge, McGonagall, Flitwick and Hagrid tell the landlady that Sirius Black was his father's best friend and is his godfather.
Q 20What is the name of Ron's pet rat?
Scabbers
Scabbers, the elderly rat Ron inherited from his brother Percy, turns out to be Peter Pettigrew hiding in his Animagus form.
Q 24How many Muggles did Peter Pettigrew kill when he faked his own death?
Twelve
He left a severed finger behind and framed Sirius for the massacre.
Q 25Which Gryffindor Quidditch captain finally wins the Cup in his seventh year?
Oliver Wood
Oliver Wood, Gryffindor's Keeper and captain, lifts the Quidditch Cup in his seventh and final year after Harry catches the Snitch against Slytherin.
Q 26What causes Lupin to transform and lets Pettigrew escape on the way back to the castle?
The full moon
The full moon: the clouds part as the group crosses the grounds, Lupin, who has missed his Wolfsbane Potion that night, transforms, and in the chaos Pettigrew grabs Lupin's dropped wand and escapes.
Q 27What device do Harry and his friend use to go back and save Sirius and Buckbeak?
A Time-Turner
A Time-Turner, the tiny hourglass the Ministry lent Hermione so she could attend overlapping classes; Dumbledore only hints at the plan rather than ordering it.
Q 28Who exposes Lupin as a werewolf, forcing him to resign?
Snape
Snape, furious at losing his Order of Merlin when Sirius escaped, lets slip at breakfast that Lupin is a werewolf; Lupin resigns before parents' owls can arrive.
Q 29What broomstick does Sirius send Harry after his Nimbus 2000 is destroyed?
A Firebolt
A Firebolt, the racing broom Harry had coveted in Diagon Alley; it arrives anonymously at Christmas, and Sirius later admits he ordered it in Harry's name from his own vault.
Q 30Who directed the 2004 film?
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón, fresh from Y Tu Mamá También, directed the film after Chris Columbus stepped down to produce; Cuarón had not read the books when first approached.