Prisoner of Azkaban (PC) World Record History

The first recorded run was completed on February 23rd 2013 with a final time of 1:46:35 by TheUltimateGamer95. Being as early of a run as it was the Cauldron Cake route was ... interesting. By the end of the dementor fights, 58 CCs had been collected, typically only taking Cauldron Cakes that were directly in the runners path and instead opting to enter many of the portrait areas to obtain a large number of cakes right at the end of the run before finals. The runner bought 4 passwords, entered 5th and 1st floor portaits, bought 1, entered dungeon and 4th, bought 1, entered 2nd, bought 11 Cauldron Cakes, bought 1 password, entered 7th, bought 9 Cauldron cakes, and finally bought the last password. The runner also opted to complete the buckbeak courses at the end of the run right before final exams.

The following runs played out fairly similarly: the 1:45:58 by miets opted to complete the buckbeak courses immediately before transfiguration instead of at the end of the run, but collected only 40 cauldron cakes by the end of dementors. This run however decided to reenter the 2nd floor portrait multiple times to collect the same ccs multiple times (bought 9 ccs, bought 4, 5th 4th 1st, bought 6 ccs, bought 2, entered 2nd 8 times, bought 1, entered 7th, bought 2 ccs, bought 1). Menno became the first person to implement any kind of sequence break into the run, using well skip and the bottom platform skip at the end of Draconifors A in his 1:33:53 run (collected 77 ccs, bought 5, 5th 4th 1st, bought 3 ccs, bought 2, 7th, bought 9 ccs, bought 1).

9 months later Menno would become the first person to implement Tarzan swings into a World Record run, performing swings to skip portions of the 4th and 5th shield rooms during his 1:30:10. This run also cleaned up the cauldron cake route, becoming the first record to not buy any cauldron cakes (buy 6, 5th 4th 1st, buy 1, 7th, buy 1). Respirte would then become the first to implement tarzan swings in the 6th shield room of carpe and the 3rd room of carpe final, and the first to perform maze skip in Transfiguration in his 1:30:08. This run's cauldron cake route (buy 6, 1st 4th, buy 1, 7th, buy 1) would be used in every record run for the next 2 years. Entorte's 1:28:04, completed later the same day added in a tarzan swing in the 8th shield room of carpe and the pixie cutscene skip in the 2nd shield room.