Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Trivia
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149 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 02Which publisher released Prisoner of Azkaban in the United States two months after it came out in Britain?
Scholastic
Scholastic published it in America two months after the British edition, the last time US readers had to wait: the fourth book came out in both countries on the same day.
Q 03Why was Prisoner of Azkaban's UK release held until 3.45pm?
So children would not skip school to buy it
So children would not skip school to buy it: the publisher set the unusually precise time so that the school day was over before a single copy went on sale.
Q 04Whose Beowulf translation beat Prisoner of Azkaban to the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year?
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's Beowulf carried the day only narrowly, after judge Anthony Holden protested that a children's book should not be held in the same regard as the poem.
Q 05Prisoner of Azkaban was the first Potter book shortlisted for which science-fiction and fantasy prize?
The Hugo Award
The Hugo Award for Best Novel went to Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky that year, but Goblet of Fire won it a year later, the only Potter book to do so.
Q 06Which relative does Harry accidentally inflate at the start of the story?
Aunt Marge
Aunt Marge, Uncle Vernon's sister, swells up and floats to the ceiling after insulting Harry's parents, and Harry storms out of Privet Drive that same night.
Q 07Where does the Knight Bus drop Harry after he runs away from the Dursleys?
The Leaky Cauldron
The Leaky Cauldron: the Minister for Magic is waiting at the door, and instead of being punished for using magic at home Harry is given a room there until term starts.
Q 08Who plays Professor Lupin in the film of Prisoner of Azkaban?
David Thewlis
David Thewlis had been up for Professor Quirrell in the first film but lost out to Ian Hart, so Lupin became his way into the series two films later.
Q 09When Neville's boggart appears as Professor Snape, whose clothes does Neville make it wear?
His grandmother's
His grandmother's: Lupin has Neville picture her tall hat topped with a stuffed vulture, her green dress and her handbag, and the boggart Snape appears wearing the lot.
Q 10Rowling has said the Dementors grew out of her own experience of what?
Depression
Depression: Rowling has said the cold, hopeless feeling the creatures bring, which Ron describes as feeling he would never be cheerful again, is how it felt to her.
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 takes the victim's soul through the mouth and leaves the body alive as an empty shell, the fate Sirius is minutes from when Harry and Hermione free him.
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 going for Ron's rat, and when the rat vanishes Ron blames him and stops speaking to Hermione.
Q 22Ron is dragged by a large black dog into a tunnel hidden beneath what?
The Whomping Willow
The Whomping Willow was planted the year Lupin started at Hogwarts, and not by chance: the violent tree was put there to guard the tunnel the dog drags Ron into.
Q 23Where does the big reveal about Sirius, Lupin and Pettigrew take place?
The Shrieking Shack
The Shrieking Shack is where Lupin and Sirius force Ron's rat to show himself, and Peter Pettigrew, believed dead for years, is suddenly standing in front of them.
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 in Harry's third 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 is half eagle, half horse and easily offended: Hagrid warns the class never to insult one, then Malfoy does exactly that to Buckbeak and is attacked.
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 18What does the Marauder's Map do when Snape orders it to reveal its secrets?
Insults him in writing
Insults him in writing: its makers' nicknames appear on the parchment one by one to mock him, one calling Professor Snape an ugly git, and Lupin passes it off as a joke-shop toy.
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 the Minister for Magic and three of his teachers 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, gets there in his last match before leaving school, and he is sobbing as he hands Harry the Cup after the win over Slytherin.
Q 26What had Lupin forgotten to do on the night he turns into a werewolf in the school grounds?
Take his potion
Take his potion: the Wolfsbane Potion brewed for Lupin lets him keep his mind when he changes, but he rushed out without that night's dose, and Pettigrew escapes in the chaos.
Q 27What device do Harry and Hermione use to go back and save Sirius and Buckbeak?
A Time-Turner
A Time-Turner is the tiny hourglass Hermione was secretly given so she could sit classes held at the same hour; turning it lets her and Harry live the evening a second time.
Q 28Who exposes Lupin as a werewolf, forcing him to resign?
Snape
Snape, furious that Sirius has got away, makes Lupin's condition public, and Lupin resigns before the owls from parents can start arriving.
Q 29What does Hermione do to Draco Malfoy when he mocks Hagrid over Buckbeak's death sentence?
Hits him in the face
Hits him in the face: in the book it is a slap with all the strength she can muster, and the film turned it into a punch.
Q 30In Lupin's end-of-year exam, Hermione's boggart turns into a teacher telling her what?
She has failed everything
She has failed everything: the boggart is the last obstacle in Lupin's exam, and for the hardest-working student in the year it becomes a teacher delivering her worst fear.