Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Chapter Ten:
The Marauder's Map

Synopsis by William Silvester
Notes and links by Michele L. Worley

US hardcover edition: pages 183 - 210
UK paperback edition: pages 199 - 228
Timeframe: Sunday xx November - Saturday xx December, 1993 [Y13]

In which Harry spends the weekend in hospital, Lupin returns to class and tells Harry about dementors, and Fred and George give Harry the Marauder's Map. Harry uses a secret passage to join Ron and Hermione in Hogsmeade, they overhear a teachers' conversation, and learn that Black is believed to have betrayed Harry's parents and is his godfather.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

This chapter introduces the Marauder's Map.

The most memorable events of this chapter are the twins' early Christmas gift to Harry - the map itself - and the teachers' conversation in the Three Broomsticks about Sirius Black and his supposed involvement in the murder of Harry's parents.

It was a relief to return to the noise and bustle of the main school on Monday...

...even if he had to endure Draco Malfoy's taunting. Malfoy was almost beside himself with glee at Gryffindor's defeat. He had finally taken off his bandages...

...and celebrated having the full use of both arms again by doing spirited imitations of Harry falling off his broom.

Malfoy spent much of their next Potions class doing dementor imitations across the dungeon...

Snape is clearly ignoring all this arm-waving and flouncing around by Malfoy. It's a wonder that he manages to control a class with Slytherins in it if he ignores this kind of behaviour.

...Ron finally cracked and flung a large, slippery crocodile heart at Malfoy...

...which hit him in the face and caused Snape to take fifty points from Gryffindor.

Both Ron and Hermione had decided to remain at Hogwarts, and although Ron said it was because he couldn't stand two weeks with Percy...

There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable. Creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice, fat, honey-colored toffees; hundreds of different kinds of chocolate in neat rows; there was a large barrel of Every Flavor Beans, and another of Fizzing Whizbees...

...the levitating sherbet balls that Ron had mentioned...

...along yet another wall were "Special Effects" -- sweets: Droobles Best Blowing Gum (which filled a room with bluebell-colored bubbles that refused to pop for days), the strange, splintery Toothflossing Stringmints, tiny black Pepper Imps ("breathe fire for your friends!"), Ice Mice ("hear your teeth chatter and squeak!"), peppermint creams shaped like toads ("hop realistically in the stomach!"), fragile sugar-spun quills, and exploding bonbons.

"How about these?" said Ron, shoving a jar of Cockroach Clusters under Hermione's nose.

...examining a tray of blood-flavoured lollipops. Harry sneaked up behind them.
"Ugh, no, Harry won't want one of those, they're for vampires, I expect," Hermione was saying.

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• Rosmerta, Madam

• Flume, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrosius, the owners of Honeydukes (named in HBP)

• (unnamed) bunch of rowdy warlocks at the bar of the Three Broomsticks

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Bell, Katie

• Flitwick, Professor

• Fudge, Cornelius

• Granger, Hermione

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Lupin, Remus (as Moony)

• Malfoy, Draco

• McGonagall, Minerva

• Pomfrey, Poppy

• Potter, Harry

• Johnson, Angelina

• Snape, Severus

• Spinnet, Alicia

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ginny

• Weasley, Ron

• Wood, Oliver

• (unnamed) the remaining third-year Gryffindors in DADA and Potions

• (unnamed) the remaining third-year Slytherins in Potions

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Black, Sirius (as Padfoot)

• Dumbledore, Albus

• Dursley, Dudley

• Dursley, Petunia

• Dursley, Vernon

• Filch, Argus

• Granger, Dr. and Dr.

• Gudgeon, Davey

• Norris, Mrs.

• Peeves

• Pettigrew, Peter (as Wormtail)

• Potter, James (as Prongs)

• Potter, Lily

• Voldemort (You-Know-Who)

• Weasley, Arthur

• Weasley, Molly

• Weasley, Percy

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Hogsmeade

  • Honeydukes

  • the Three Broomsticks

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • DADA classroom

  • Gryffindor Tower

  • Hospital Wing

  • Potions dungeon

  • third-floor corridor containing a statue of a one-eyed witch

  • empty classroom along third-floor corridor, next to statue

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Azkaban

• Hogsmeade

  • post office

  • Shrieking Shack

  • Zonkos

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • Dumbledore's study

  • second floor

  • secret passage behind mirror on the fourth floor

  • secret passage from Whomping Willow to Shrieking Shack

  • four secret passages from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade that Filch is thought to know about

  • trophy room

• the Potters' home at Godric's Hollow

• number four, Privet Drive

Exceptional character moments:

• Draco Malfoy, wearing bandages on an uninjured arm for over two months just to get Hagrid into trouble.

• Harry, who feels that in losing his Nimbus 2000 he's lost one of his best friends.

• Lupin's controlled lack of reaction upon finding out that Snape had assigned an essay on werewolves to his third-year students, when the material was being brought up months too early.

• Snape, who ignores Malfoy waving his arms around doing falling-off-a-broom and Dementor imitations throughout a Potions lesson.

• The Weasley twins, who give Harry their most valuable aid to magical mischief-makers to cheer him up and get him into Hogsmeade, even though they could've just shown him the entrance to the secret passage without ever telling him about the map at all.

• Ron and Hermione, opting to spend the Christmas holidays at Hogwarts, even though this is the third year running that Ron has done so and the second year running for Hermione.

Spells:

• Apparate

• Dissendium

• Fidelius Charm

• Lumos

• Mobiliarbus

• Memory Charm (effect referred to)

Links and Resources:

• Bestiary, the

  • dementors

  • fairies

  • Grim

  • hinkypunk

  • werewolves

• food

  • butterbeer

  • candy (Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Every-Flavour Beans, Fizzing Whizbees, Ice Mice, Jelly Slugs, Pepper Imps, Toothflossing Stringmints)

• candy (Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Every-Flavour Beans, Fizzing Whizbees, Ice Mice, Jelly Slugs, Pepper Imps, Toothflossing Stringmints)

• essays

  • Harry's Things

  • A View of the Map: Understanding How the Marauder's Map Works

• magical items and devices

  • brooms (Nimbus 2000, Shooting Star)

  • Marauder's Map

  • singing get-well card

• potions ingredients (crocodile heart)

• House Points - PA

• Department of Magical Catastrophes

• Magical Law Enforcement Squad - Hit Wizards

• Order of Merlin, First Class (supposedly posthumous)

• Which Broomstick

• Whomping Willow, the

Memorable lines:

• none

Strictly British:

• earwiggy

• fairy lights

• holidays

• nicked

• mullioned

• pitch (U.K. edition only)

• pub

• skiving

• sweet

• sweetshop

Timelines/Calendar:

The action of the chapter begins the day after Gryffindor-Hufflepuff and continues through the afternoon of the day of the second Hogsmeade visit.