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Release cycle theme: The Wizarding World of Jostle
A is for Azkaban
As we venture into the fraught world of witches, wizards, and house elves, we immediately run into the age-old debate of which was better: the books or the movies.
It probably doesn't come as a shock that the author of this "Did you know" has a special affinity for the written version of the story. The movies skip too much, including the details of how Sirius Black became the first Wizard ever to escape the Alcatraz-inspired wizarding prison known as Azkaban.
As Sirius tells it, his time in the Dementor-guarded Azkaban left him hopeless and unable to transform into his Animagus (a big black dog). But, when he saw a photo of Peter Pettigrew in his rat form on the cover of the Daily Prophet, his need for revenge gave him just enough hope to make his transformation, allowing him to sneak out past the Dementors who couldn't sense the soul of an animal.
The one question we're left with is how long it took to doggy paddle from Azkaban to the British shore.
