Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Comic Relief) - J. K. Rowling

Well with all my school work at the moment, it is nice to have a little look at what school work is like for Witches And Wizards. Us poor muggles have to go through the same exams as as the Hogwarts students (Even if they are in different subjects!) So in first year, the students study 'Care Of Magical Creatures' in which the students have to learn basics about the different weird and wonderful (plus exceptionally dangerous) creatures out there. I am a very big Harry Potter fan so it seemed approriate to buy it! It was originally released a few years back when I was just 13 (awww) and of course, I had to have it! So my £3.99 got me this amazing Harry Potter ...  Read the complete review

Now I suppose the Dooyoo people might want to point out that according to the cover this book is in fact by one Newt Seamander and not JK Rowling at all, but even I think you can take this whole Harry Potter thing a bit too far. Essentially, this is Rowling's contribution to Comic Relief and it's only 42 pages long so hardly qualifies as a real book, but given it's place in the Potter mythology it more than deserves a review as it is a true gem. Right. What is it? As Harry Potter fans will know, his school, Hogwarts, requires its pupils to have set texts, several of which are referred to by Rowling in the course of the books. This is one of them. ...  Read the complete review

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. Thus greets us mere muggles Aldus Dumbledore in the preface to this special for-charity edition of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by Newt Scamander, a set text with wizards the world over. As Dumbledore states, it has never happened before that books, or indeed any artefacts, from the wizarding world have been allowed to come into possession of muggles (aka mere mortals with no magical powers). But for charity we all go to extremes of kindness, the beneficiary in question being Comic Relief. The book, therefore. Or pamphlet, rather. At 42 pages length, in a mini-pocket format (of ...  Read the complete review

Now some of the regular readers of my writing will now know that I am a bit of a wizard. Now to tell you more, I am a very poor Wizard. In fact my Dooyoo name KingHerrod is my actual wizard name. Now to you muggles the prefix King, means noble, royal and is generally a compliment in your society. However in the wizard world people with King in front of their name are wizards who are banned from practicing magic as they are too poor at it. King in the wizard world, means useless, poor, bumbling wizard. Of course the same is true of Queen, if you are a witch with the prefix Queen in front of your name, then you are the female version of a king wizard. Why am I ...  Read the complete review

To Muggles (Humans without magical powers) who have not read Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them will probably not make very much sense. To those, like myself, who love Harry Potter, reading the book will fill in little gaps missed out by the main books. J.K.Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series, a story about a young boy Wizard and his adventures, fighting against the evil Lord Voldemort. Harry attends Hogwart’s school of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Fantastic Beasts is one of the set texts for Harry’s Care of Magical Creatures classes, taken by Hagrid - a somewhat eccentric man who has a love for strange animals ...  Read the complete review