Sirius Black wasn't the first to escape from Azkaban. There was also a second wizard who slipped out long before him. On top of that, in 1996, all of Voldemort's Death Eaters broke out from Azkaban.

Azkaban started out as the lair of evil wizard Ekrizdis before becoming a magical prison in the Harry Potter franchise.

It was Sirius Black. This illustration is featured in the "Cat, Rat and Dog" chapter of the newly released illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .

But the 13-year-old wizard is too wrapped up in conversation to notice — an escaped psychopath named Sirius Black is out to kill him, after all.

Sirius Black may have discovered how to escape from Azkaban, but can you? Project Escape in Conshohocken is challenging muggles and wizards to escape its Harry Potter-inspired room. Black had ...

The essence of romanticism, said the German writer E.T.A. Hoffman, is "infinite longing." With the marvelous "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," J.K. Rowling's work has finally gotten the ...

Sirius Black is easily one of my favorite Harry Potter characters due to his remarkable quotes and wisdom that often comes from his risk-taking ... — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 9.

Later Harry drops mischief-making in favor of urgent lessons in self-defense after learning that a devious wizard named Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban prison in order to kill him.