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The Story
After accidentally blowing up his uncle’s sister, Harry flees from the Dursleys – unaware that Sirius Black, a convicted mass murderer and follower or Lord Voldemort, has escaped from the wizarding prison of Azkaban and is said to be afer Harry.
While his friends Ron and Hermione fight over her cat Crookshanks’ attempts to eat Ron’s rat Scabbers, Harry receives private tutoring from the ragged-looking Professor Lupin to ward off the soul-sucking Dementors, who have been sent from Azkaban to protect the students at Hogwarts from Black.
During a visit to the village near the school, Harry learns that Black is believed to have told Lord Voldemort about his parents’ hiding place, but eventually, Harry and his friends are being dragged into the revelation of what really happened the night the Potters were killed…
Rupert’s character
While slightly worried for Harry’s safety when he learns that Sirius Black is on the loose, Ron is glad when Harry breaks the rules to join him and Hermione on their trip to Hogsmeade, for Ron repeatedly has arguments with Hermione about her cat’s attempts to eat Ron’s pet rat Scabbers. Just when Scabbers has reappeared, Ron is literally dragged into the revelation about the truth behind the murder of Harry’s parents…
Trivia Information
The symbols under Sirius Black’s picture on the Wanted Poster translate as “more or less human.”
While Mr. Weasley talks to Harry about Sirius Black at the Leaky Cauldron, Ron changes his seat. The bald patch on Scabbers’ head is visible, as is Pettigrew’s later on.
Ron sits on seat No 9 in the fourth compartment from the front of the second wagon.
The sweet that Seamus throws at Ron, which gives Ron the lion roar, is orange.
The cup holding information about Ron’s future is striped: blue, greyish-yellow, reddish-brown from top to bottom.
Shortly after Ron gives Harry the shove to step up to Buckbeak, Buckbeak can be seen poo-ing.
When Harry comes back after flying on Buckbeak, Ron can be seen clapping with the other Gryffindor boys, while Hermione is with some girls.
When Draco is boasting about the “seriousness” of his injury, he mentions that Madam Pomfrey almost had to cut off his arm. Despite stating that Draco is “really lying on thick”, Ron does the same thing later on when talking about his leg to Hermione. In the same scene, Ron plays with the strap on Hermione’s bag.
Ron sneaks a look at Hermione during Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson.
The capes Ron and Hermione wear to the Quidditch match also have the Gryffindor symbol on the left chest.
The hat Ron wears to Hogwarts is a different one than the one in the partying scene in the boys’ dormitory.
While walking to Hagrid’s, Ron and Hermione are walking in the same rhythm except when walking down the steps and when Ron turns his back towards Harry.
Ron’s dream about spiders making him tap-dance is a two-in-one reference of the next book. In ‘Goblet of Fire’, Professor Moody makes a spider tap-dance on the desk.
Ron sleeps across the room from Harry’s bed. In the previous films, and in Goblet of Fire, their beds are next to each other.
Ron actually has a bitemark on his finger when Scabbers has bitten him.
When Pettigrew leaves the tunnel with Lupin, he asks Lupin to turn him into “a dungbeatle or a flobberworm” instead of giving him to the Dementors. When Ron and Hermione argue at the beginning of the film, Ron mentions the Egyptians worshiping dungbeatles.
When Lupin turns into his werewolf form, it is Hermione who turns to help Ron get up first.
When the trio and Snape get up as Sirius and Lupin start to fight, Harry is the one to help Ron get up. Shortly afterwards, he is leaning towards and then onto Hermione again.
When Harry follows Sirius into the woods with Ron, Hermione and Snape in the background, Ron lifts his arm to hold onto Snape while looking over Snape’s shoulder.
While Hermione goes back in time, one can see the following people next to Ron’s bed: Dumbledore, Snape, Professor McGonagall, Filch, Mme Pomfrey.
Hermione is the first to be taken to the Hospital Wing, followed by Harry. It is Snape who brings Ron into the Hospital Wing after that. (The time-turning sequence shows this in reverse order!)
Ron says “Bloody hell” three times throughout the film.
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