The most time it will knock you down with memories and scenes, they will all along play in / with your mind creating a mesmerizing longing to read/visit the Hogwarts again and again.

While readers know so much about the castle from the HP series, it was fun to get an insiders look into the hallowed halls.Aside from its role in The Goblet of Fire, I know little about this location, but have always found it to be a mysterious presence lingering in the background. We thank the author and her team of superhuman publishers for teasing us with such morsels of the HP universe. Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. I liked that in this book we not only got tidbits about Harry's world, but we also got to understand some of Rowling's intentions behind specific choices. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide recaptures this feeling, reminding me of the excitement of my childhood reading, when you discover a new obscure fact about the worlds created by your favourite authors.

It also goes into detail about azkaban and talks in detail about poltergeists and the dreaded Umbridge! I'm glad the Hufflepuffs finally got to see what Rowling envisioned for them in spite of it never making it into the books. This has just made me wish even more than I already did that we could actually read Hogwarts: A History. Yes, some new information was revealed about the characters and some of the well-known places at Hogwarts, but I didn't feel like I'd be missing out had I never read these. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books. It was great fun to see who was almost a Hatstall and the other two characters from the series who were true Hatstalls like Harry. 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. The script book was published to mark the plays opening in 2016 and instantly topped the bestseller lists.

The advice to ‘hold on to your dreams’ is all well and good, but there comes a point when holding on to your dreams becomes unhelpful and even unhealthy.Hay poquito que decir sobre ellas, pero me han venido genial para desconectar entre lecturas (sobretodo ahora en época de exámenes) pero no aportan nada nuevo (pero sí que me han parecido muy entretenidas). Rowling talks about her choices and experience regarding Hogwarts School Subjects and, more importantly, Time-Turnerv and the struggle of Hermione's access to one—an interesting behind the scenes to it all, with also a better understanding given on the working of time-turners! The series will be remembered for its faultless narration, the obsession it caused with Potterworld, the most perfectly formed fantasy world (yes, even better than Westeros) and the most endearing characters ever written about in children's literature. The idea to use Platform Nine and Three-Quarters was inspired by actual history involving Boudicca, an ancient British queen. This book begins with the journey to Hogwarts and goes right up to explaining its hidden secrets like the Chamber of Secrets.