Azkaban

Azkaban is the name of the prison of the wizards, in the saga of Harry Potter, written by J.K. Rowling.

Localization

It is a sinister place, located on a island in the middle of the the North Sea and quoted for the first time in Harry Potter and the room of the secrecies .

Guards

Its guards are the Détraqueur S, of the malefic creatures vêtues of a large black coat. These détraqueurs, working under the orders of the Ministry for the Magic, nourish happiness of the creatures which surround them. The only fate acting against them is the Patronus. The beginning of Harry Potter and to the prince of half-caste , the ministry for the magic indicates to the Prime Minister that the détraqueurs gave up the prison, one learns at the end from Harry Potter and the relics from dead the which they are not used any more as prison warders of Azkaban.

Prisoners

The majority of the prisoners of Azkaban become insane in a few months.
  • Rubeus Hagrid made there a short stay during in Harry Potter and the room of the secrecies .

  • Sirius Black . Its capacity to be transformed into dog, which it owes with its quality of Animagus, enabled him not only to escape the mental domination from the détraqueurs, but also, made quasi-single, to escape (in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban ).

  • In Harry Potter and the goblet of fire , one learns there that Barty Croupton Jr., is saying deceased in the prison is in fact escaped with the assistance of his/her father.

  • Several Mangemorts is locked up there since the fall of Voldemort until their escape at the end from Harry Potter and the Order from the phoenix .com me Mulcider, Rookwood, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, his/her brother, Dolohov AND JUGSON.

  • In Harry Potter and the prince of half-caste , Bellatrix Lestrange is unceasingly praised to have spent the years there by fidelity for its Master.

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