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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...