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- Sirius Black ended up being the only wizard ever to escape Azkaban without help. Sirius was sent to Azkaban when Bartemius Crouch Senior sentenced several suspects after the First Wizarding War without trials.
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Feb 23, 2023 · Sirius Black is introduced in the third Harry Potter installment as the Prisoner of Azkaban, a dark and menacing figure feared by the Wizarding World almost as much as Voldemort himself. Everyone believes he's a mass murderer who betrayed Harry Potter's parents to the Dark Side.
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Jun 15, 2023 · Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban prison was a central part of the mystery in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but the Harry Potter movies left out precisely how he did it—as well as several other details about the wizarding prison.
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This was especially notable as most prisoners of Azkaban either became insane or lost their will to live within weeks when succumbing to the Dementor's depressive effects, something which especially unnerved Cornelius Fudge, who was surprised to see how little the Dementors had an effect on Black.
Sep 12, 2024 · While Azkaban held mighty wizards, the few years that Harry Potter remained enrolled at Hogwarts famously saw the escape of a high-security prisoner, Sirius Black, who was believed guilty of the murder of Peter Pettigrew and 12 muggles.
In 1993, Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban after seeing Scabbers in a Daily Prophet article of the paper Cornelius Fudge gave him in late July 1993, recognising him as his traitorous former friend Peter Pettigrew.
Sirius Black wrongfully imprisoned in Azkaban It was during the First Wizarding War that Bartemius Crouch Senior , Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the time, sentenced many suspects to Azkaban without a trial.
Sirius states that unlike most other Azkaban prisoners (who often became insane during their terms of imprisonment), he was able to keep his sanity because he knew he was innocent, and also used his Animagus form to ward off the Dementors, who are unable to perceive unsophisticated canine minds.