Hermione's schedule looks strange, as she has multiple classes scheduled for the same time.

Professor Trelawney predicts that Harry will die and sees the Grim, a death omen, in Harry's
tealeaves. Malfoy insults a hippogriff named Buckbeak in Hagrid's class, and Buckbeak
strikes Malfoy. A few weeks later, Quidditch practice starts and the school announces the first
Hogsmeade weekend. Crookshanks makes a leap to eat Scabbers. The next day, after the
feast, they discover that Sirius Black tried to break into Gryffindor Tower and destroyed the Fat
Lady's portrait. The next day Snape teaches the Defense Against the Dark Arts class about
werewolves.

During the first Quidditch match Gryffindor plays against Hufflepuff. As Harry chases the
Snitch, dementors swarm the field and he passes out. later that week,Harry admits to Lupin
that he hears Lily screaming when he sees the dementors. Harry asks if Lupin can teach him
to fight dementors, and Lupin agrees.

Before Christmas Fred and George pull Harry aside and give him the Marauder's Map, which
shows everyone in Hogwarts as well as secret passages out of the castle. Harry soon learns
that Sirius Black betrayed his parents and is his godfather and wants revenge. the trio learns
that Buckbeak's case will go on to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.
Harry has his first private lesson with Lupin. They work with a boggart, since it will turn into a
dementor. Harry tries to conjure a Patronus charm to defeat it but fails. During the next
Quidditch match, Gryffindor beats Ravenclaw and Harry conjures a Patronus when three
dementors take the field--but the dementors are actually Malfoy and his cronies in disguise.
That night, Ron's screams wake up Harry.Ron woke up to Sirius Black with a knife. After Harry
threw mud at Draco and was discovered Lupin covered for him and confiscated the Marauder's
Map. Hermione meets Harry and Ron with a note from Hagrid: he lost Buckbeak's trial.

A week later Gryffindor beats Slytherin and wins the Quidditch Cup. The trio learns that
Buckbeak's final appeal will be at Hogwarts on the last day of their exams.After the final appeal
Hagrid writes to say that Buckbeak lost his appeal. Harry, Ron, and Hermione sneak down to
Hagrid's hut under the Invisibility Cloak. Hermione discovers Scabbers in a milk jug. Halfway
back to the castle, they hear the axe fall and Scabbers escapes. Ron catches Scabbers under
the Whomping Willow, but a big black dog grabs Ron and drags him into the tree's roots.
Crookshanks stops the tree so that Harry and Hermione can follow. They follow a tunnel until
they reach the inside of the Shrieking Shack, where they discover Sirius Black with Ron.

Filled with rage, Harry tries to fight Black. They hear someone downstairs, Hermione screams
for help, and Lupin races up the stairs. He embraces Black, which makes Hermione shriek that
he's a werewolf. Lupin affirms this and then says things that don't make sense: he saw on the
Marauder's Map that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and a fourth person entered the Whomping
Willow. That fourth person is an Animagus named Peter Pettigrew, who can turn into a rat and
has been living for twelve years as Scabbers. Lupin and Black explain that Black, Pettigrew,
and James Potter became Animagi as students to keep Lupin company during his
transformations into a werewolf. Snape suddenly appears, but Harry, Ron, and Hermione
knock him out. Lupin and Black force Scabbers to transform and he becomes the man Peter
Pettigrew. Black explains that Pettigrew betrayed Harry's parents and framed Black. Harry
believes Black's story, and the group makes its way back through the tunnel so they can turn in
Pettigrew. Harry accepts Black's invitation to come live with him but out in the moonlight, Lupin
transforms into a werewolf and Pettigrew escapes. Harry and Hermione find Black by the lake
and the dementors swarm around them. A real Patronus chases the dementors away.

Harry and Hermione wake up in the hospital wing to the sound of Fudge and Snape talking
about Black. They try to tell Snape and Dumbledore the truth, but Dumbledore sends everyone
away and tells Hermione that they need more time. Hermione uses a necklace to take Harry
back in time three hours. She explains that this is how she's been getting to her classes all
year. They realize that Dumbledore wants them to save Buckbeak too and Harry steals him
from under the executioner's nose. Harry admits to Hermione that he saw James conjure the
Patronus. After Lupin turns into a werewolf, Harry, Hermione, and Buckbeak hide in Hagrid's
hut. Harry sneaks out, hoping to see his father, but realizes that he is actually the one to
conjure the Patronus. It's a massive stag. Minutes later, he and Hermione fly Buckbeak to the
appropriate window, find Black, and send him away with Buckbeak. They make it back to the
hospital wing just in time, though Snape is furious that Black got away.

The next day, Harry learns that Lupin resigned after Snape let slip that he's a werewolf. Harry
goes to say goodbye and learns that his father's Animagus form was a stag. Dumbledore
arrives to say goodbye to Lupin and after Lupin leaves, Dumbledore insists that the trip back in
time was a success. Harry feels morose until halfway home, when a small owl brings him a
letter from Black. It includes a note giving Harry permission to visit Hogsmeade and says that
Ron can keep the owl.