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Harry Potter Schoolbooks Box Set: Two Classic Books from the Library of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Harry Potter Schoolbooks Box Set: Two Classic Books from the Library of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not much in them, but good books.
Review: Even if the text in the books is at somepoints as boring as our own, these books let you really vivulize what they learn at Hogwarts. I remcomned this for any die heart fan.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must-have for any Harry Potter fan!
Review: The inestimable J.K. Rowling produced this cute pair of books for the charity Comic Relief. Written in a tongue in cheek manner, these two books claim to come directly from Hogwarts! Quidditch Through the Ages is a library book that gives the evolution of Quidditch from its inception, and tells everything about how it's played. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a textbook that discusses magical creatures in J.K. Rowlings world, treating them all most seriously, and telling you a surprising amount about them.

These are great books, and a must-have for any Harry Potter fan! They are good, light-hearted books that give the reader a good glimpse into J.K. Rowling's world. (Plus, I must say that I learned a lot about Quidditch!) I highly recommend these books!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic
Review: These two books are fantastic! They explain alot we never knew from the series,and they are incredibly funny! I always wanted to know more about the things Harry has read and about the creatures JK has created.I really hope she makes more!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good fun
Review: These books are good, ligh-hearted fun. The Magical Beasts book is the jewel of the set. With comments from Harry, Ron and Hermione written in the margins, the descriptions of the magical creatures in Harry Potter's world take on great humor.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: too much
Review: I got these from my grandmother and I just thought that they were too much. It was a little cool with all the notes written in and things like that, but I never really read it straight, because it was too much like school. I love the harry potter books but i think that all this harry potter mania goes a little bit over the edge.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the 2 book in hogwarts and the quiz book
Review: quiz book:it is very fun,all four books of harry potter questions are inside it,300 questions each!very good indeed
fantastic beasts and where to find them:is a wonderful book too,its a book from hogwarts,it gives you fact as if you are really a hogwarts student.
quidditch though th ages:again,this is a hogwarts book too,if someone in hogwarts(harry potter)is playing quidditch,then this is the book they should read to get clues from,its just like you're in hogwarts!
these three books are just wonderful!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Entertaining!
Review: I love the Harry Potter books, and this is a very good set. You can understand more about what Harry is learning, and are funny. Read in one sitting. Also, it benefits charity! Good choice, I would rate it more than five if I could!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: If you cannot go to Hogwarts, let Hogwarts come to you
Review: Although not a necessary addition to everyone's personal Harry Potter library, these two little books are quite interesting and a lot of fun to read. They are both quite short, totaling less than sixty five pages apiece, but they are wonderfully put together and made to look like copies of real books from the Hogwarts library. None other than Albus Dumbledore himself writes the introduction to each book, explaining how and why these books are being made available to Muggles for the first time and explaining how proceeds from each book go directly to a fund, set up in Harry Potter's name by Comic Relief UK and author J.K. Rowling, which is dedicated to help children in need throughout the world.

Quidditch Through the Ages, penned by Quidditch expert Kennilworthy Whisp explains the ultimate sport of wizards from top to bottom, giving the centuries-old history of the game as it has evolved. First and foremost, he explains why wizards and witches employ brooms to fly on in the first place, and then he proceeds to give an account of the changing rules of the game from its early days of primitive baskets set atop poles to the standardized and world-sweeping format of today. Of most significance and interest is the story of how the Golden Snitch was introduced into the sport. Different strategies and maneuvers are named and explained, the thirteen Quidditch teams of England and Ireland are identified, some of the seven hundred types of fouls are explained, and some of the most memorable games and individual performances are detailed (including the Tutshill Tornados' Roderick Plumpton's amazing snag of the Golden Snitch only three and a half seconds into a game back in 1921).

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander is a compendium of all the fantastic beasts currently known, from the Acromantula to the Yeti. Prior to the actual listings, Scamander explains the criteria by which some beings have come to be labeled beasts (it's more complicated than you might think) and devotes some time to the obvious question as to why Muggles seem to spot such creatures only rarely. Each listing also carries the classification assigned each beast by the Ministry of Magic, which is important information given that these beasts range from the harmless to the controllable to the incredibly dangerous. Along with fascinating descriptions of the animals we have already encountered in the Harry Potter books, there are some real jewels of information included here, solving several Muggle mysteries such as that of the true identity of the Loch Ness Monster. Fantastic Beasts is a copy of Harry Potter's own personal copy of the book, and its margins are dotted with little notes ranging from the mundane to the bitingly funny written by Harry, Ron, as well as Hermione. Now, if we could only get our hands on A History of Hogwarts; I'm sure Hermione has a copy they can use for the printing of a Muggle edition.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: HARRY POTTERS THE BEST!
Review: I have both of these wonderful books and love them dearly. My favorite is Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them because mostly Harry and Ron, and 1 line from Hermione has supposedly "written" in this book. I reccomend it for all Potter Fans

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Total fun for HP fans!
Review: These books can be read quickly and are highly entertaining for both longtime fans and HP novices. The "notes" that Harry and his friends have "written in" are hilarious and endearing. Recommended!


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