To encourage younger generations to collect stamps, Chunghwa Post issued two Harry Potter souvenir sheets entitled “Magical Creatures” and “Hogwarts.” in 2004 in conjunction with movie “ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ”. Each of these sheets consists of six stamps, five with denominations of NT$5 and one with a denomination of NT$25.

The design of the “Magical Creatures” stamps follows :

1. Owl Post (Upper Left): Harry's messenger owl, Hedwig, brings Harry a parcel containing a card and a present from Hermione on his 13th birthday

2. Close-up of Hedwig (Upper Right): By delivering messages and thus facilitating communication, Harry's pet Hedwig plays an important role.

3. Riding a Hippogriff for the First Time (Middle Left): As the new Care-of-Magical-Creatures teacher at Hogwarts, Hagrid gives Harry guidance as to how to ride a Hippogriff.

4. Close-up of a Hippogriff (Middle Right): Hippogriffs have the bodies, hind legs, and tails of horses, but the front legs, wings and heads of what seem to be giant eagles, with cruel, steel-colored beaks and large, brilliant orange eyes.

5. The Monster Book of Monsters (Lower Left): A present from Hagrid on Harry's 13th birthday. A required book for the Care-of-Magical-Creatures class, this book can bite and flip onto its edge and scuttle sideways on its covers like some weird crab.

6. Close-up of Crookshanks (Lower Right): Crookshanks is a huge, slightly bow-legged ginger cat with thick, fluffy fur.

The design of the “Hogwarts” stamps follows :

1. Quidditch Match (Upper Left): In the storm, Harry rides his Nimbus 2000 in Gryffindor's match against Hufflepuff.

2. Dementors Come onto the Quidditch Pitch (Upper Right): At the moment the Dementors set foot on the field, Harry feels a chill and hears the sound of his mother's pleading cries before she died. Then he crashes to the ground.

3. Riding a Hippogriff Together to Save Sirius Black (Middle Left): Harry and Hermione use a Time-Turner to rescue the Hippogriff Buckbeak. They then ride Buckbeak to rescue Sirius Black.

4. Third Year at Hogwarts (Middle Right): During his third year at Hogwarts, Harry learns how to defend himself from truly terrifying enemies.

5. Practicing the Patronus Charm to Repel Dementors (Lower Left): Professor Lupin, the Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts teacher, uses a Boggart to teach Harry how to repel Dementors.

6. Conquering Fears (Lower Right): Harry bravely faces his fears to conjure a Patronus and defeat a Boggart that has turned into a Dementor.

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