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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban : les personnages

J. K. Rowling

Le prisonnier évadé qui traque Harry n'est pas le monstre — c'est le rat qui dort sur le lit de Ron.

Ceux qui portent l'histoire

Personnages principaux

Harry Potter

An orphaned thirteen-year-old convinced a mass murderer is hunting him — and furious enough to want revenge. By the end he has spared his parents' true betrayer, saved his godfather, and learned his own Patronus wears his father's shape.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 1: Tante Marge s'envole, et le monde des sorciers se resserre
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back
Thèmes :
Betrayal wears a familiar face
Fear and how you fight it
Found family
Growing up means gray areas

Sirius Black

Azkaban's most feared escapee, presumed Voldemort's loyalist — actually an innocent godfather who spent twelve years wrongly imprisoned. He escapes on a hippogriff, offering Harry the family he never had.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 1: Tante Marge s'envole, et le monde des sorciers se resserre
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back
Thèmes :
The failure of justice
Betrayal wears a familiar face
Found family

Remus Lupin

The kind Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher hiding a werewolf's secret, and the last link to Harry's parents. Snape's exposure forces him to resign, map returned, gone again.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 1: Tante Marge s'envole, et le monde des sorciers se resserre
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back
Thèmes :
Found family
Growing up means gray areas

Peter Pettigrew

Ron's pet rat Scabbers — and the coward who betrayed the Potters, framed Black, and faked his own death. Exposed in the Shrieking Shack, he wriggles back into rat form and escapes.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back
Thèmes :
Betrayal wears a familiar face
Growing up means gray areas

Hermione Granger

The friend who reports the Firebolt out of caution and carries a Time-Turner in secret all year. Her hourglass is what makes the rescue possible.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 1: Tante Marge s'envole, et le monde des sorciers se resserre
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back
Thèmes :
Growing up means gray areas

Ron Weasley

Harry's loyal best friend, whose pet rat turns out to be the story's true villain. He loses Scabbers, gains a tiny owl named Pigwidgeon.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 1: Tante Marge s'envole, et le monde des sorciers se resserre
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back
Thèmes :
The failure of justice
Found family

Rubeus Hagrid

New Care of Magical Creatures teacher whose first lesson — Buckbeak the hippogriff — costs the creature its life sentence. His innocence condemned becomes part of what Harry must undo.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed

Severus Snape

The potions master who never stops suspecting Lupin, substituting into his class with werewolf essays and finally letting the secret slip. His vindictiveness costs Lupin his job.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back

Professor Dumbledore

The headmaster who shields Harry from the Dementors and, with a wink, points Hermione toward the one loophole that can save two innocent lives.

Apparaît dans :
Partie 2: Un présage de mort, un portrait lacéré, un balai brisé
Partie 3: The Shrieking Shack: The Rat in the Bed
Partie 4: The Lake, the Stag, and Three Hours Back

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban : thèmes & symboles

The failure of justice · Betrayal wears a familiar face · Fear and how you fight it · Found family

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