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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rowling, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / by J. K. Rowling.

p.    cm.

Sequel to: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Summary: During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

ISBN 0-439-13635-0

[1. Wizards—Fiction.    2. Magic—Fiction.    3. Schools—Fiction.

4. England—Fiction.]     I. Title.

PZ7.R79835Ham    1999

[Fie]—dc21     99-23982

60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51

Printed in the U.S.A.     12

First American edition, October 1999