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Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (Kindle Single) (Pottermore Presents Book 3) Kindle Edition
'The Ministry of Magic felt strongly, however, that to construct an additional wizarding station in the middle of London would stretch even the Muggles' notorious determination not to notice magic when it was exploding in front of their faces.' - J.K. Rowling
Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling's writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featured on pottermore.com. These eBooks, with writing curated by Pottermore, will take you beyond the Harry Potter stories as J.K. Rowling reveals her inspiration, intricate details of characters' lives and surprises from the wizarding world.
Hogwarts An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide takes you on a journey to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You'll venture into the Hogwarts grounds, become better acquainted with its more permanent residents, learn more about lessons and discover secrets of the castle . . . all at the turn of a page.
- Reading age8 years and up
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPottermore Publishing
- Publication date6 Sept. 2016
- ISBN-109781781106273
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Product details
- ASIN : B01JLXET7G
- Publisher : Pottermore Publishing (6 Sept. 2016)
- Language : English
- File size : 3959 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 85 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 5,817 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author
J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels for adults and children, and a bestselling crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide, been translated into 85 languages and made into eight blockbuster films. They continue to be discovered and loved by new generations of readers.
Alongside the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of her international children’s charity, Lumos. The companion books and original series are all available as audiobooks.
In 2016, J.K. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry’s story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London, and is now thrilling audiences on four continents. The script book was published to mark the plays opening in 2016 and instantly topped the bestseller lists.
In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Inspired by the original companion volume, it was the first in a series of new adventures featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander. The second, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018 and the third, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released in 2022.
The screenplays were published to coincide with each film’s release: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - The Original Screenplay (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - The Complete Screenplay (2022).
Fans of Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter can find out more at www.wizardingworld.com.
J.K. Rowling’s fairy tale for younger children, The Ickabog, was serialised for free online for children during the Covid-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020 and is now published as a book illustrated by children, with her royalties going to her charitable trust, Volant, to benefit charities helping alleviate social deprivation and assist vulnerable groups, particularly women and children.
Her latest children’s novel The Christmas Pig, published in 2021, is a standalone adventure story about a boy’s love for his most treasured thing and how far he will go to find it.
J.K. Rowling also writes novels for adults. The Casual Vacancy was published in 2012 and adapted for television in 2015. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, she is the author of the highly acclaimed ‘Strike’ crime series, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. The first of these, The Cuckoo’s Calling, was published to critical acclaim in 2013, at first without its author’s true identity being known. The Silkworm followed in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020 and The Ink Black Heart in 2022. The series has also been adapted for television by the BBC and HBO.
J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech was published in 2015 as an illustrated book, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, sold in aid of Lumos and university-wide financial aid at Harvard.
As well as receiving an OBE and Companion of Honour for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling has received many other awards and honours, including France’s Legion d’Honneur, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award and Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Award.
J.K. Rowling supports a number of causes through her charitable trust, Volant. She is also the founder and president of Lumos, an international children’s charity fighting for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world.
www.jkrowling.com
Image: Photography Debra Hurford Brown © J.K. Rowling
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A gripe of mine is that they aren't particularly long, but then again they never claimed to be. They can be read within an hour, perhaps a little quicker or slower depending on your reading ability and speed.
Having followed the whole series since the beginning there was no doubt that I was going to purchase these on the day they came out. I am glad I did as they are interesting.
The power and politics book goes into great detail about all of the ministers of magic and the reasoning behind them leaving. It also goes into detail about azkaban and talks in detail about poltergeists and the dreaded Umbridge!!
The heroism and hardship book goes into details about McGonagall and Lupin and the difficulties they faced in their life. It compliments this information further by talking about animagi and werewolves and gives more information on these subjects.
The incomplete and unreliable book gives information on the authors decisions and plots and why she chose them. It also details certain artefacts and places and how they came into the potter universe.
Overall I really enjoyed these books! They are something that, like the books, I will read over and over again. The information included within these books are fun and helpful and give more insight into the world we already know and love.
I would definately recommend these books to any Harry Potrer fan!
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That doesn’t mean that it isn’t informative though, or varied. There is a quite a bit covered here from how to reach Hogwarts, the ‘sorting’ process, the secrets of the place and what lessons are taught there.
Although there is some basic history on the establishment of the Hogwarts’ Express and Platform Nine and Three-Quarters it doesn’t provide much in the way of the history of Hogwarts, mainly because this has been fairly well covered in the novels already. What it does provide is some enlightenment on certain intriguing aspects of the school that, in some cases, might not have been featured much in the novels.
One of the most interesting parts is probably the section on the Hufflepuff Common Room as this was never seen in the novels or the films. There isn’t a massive amount of detail or background on it but there is enough to offer an intriguing taste and make it seems a shame that there was no room for it to ever make an active appearance in the novels.
More focussed than the other two ebooks published alongside it, this is quite an enjoyable lightweight guide. It doesn’t really offer any more than that which can already be found online but it compiles a variety of information on Hogwarts and its grounds into an accessible and interesting read.