The Unofficial Harry Potter Hogwarts Handbook: MuggleNet's complete guide to the most famous school for wizards and witches

by MuggleNet

Overview

This comprehensive tome examines the endless details of life at Hogwarts, the most famous school in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Inside, readers will find an extraordinary assortment of insights and information about how the school works, how it's organized, what classes are taught, who teaches them, what secrets or mysteries might be discovered and much more!

Certain to make reading (or re-reading) the Harry Potter series that much more intriguing, this book explores the traditional and extraordinary in equal measure, uncovering details about the school that readers will savor, including:

- The history and traditions of Hogwarts, including notable alumni

- Details of the four founders, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin

- How the school is organized with teachers, prefects, headboys and headgirls

- Holidays, feasts and celebrations

- The castle layout, classrooms, common rooms, courtyards, dungeons, secret rooms and more

- Details into the "living" artwork throughout the castle

- Artifacts, enchantments, protections and secret passageways

- Hagrid's Hut, the Whomping Willow, The Forbidden Forest and beyond!

- A visitor's guide to Hogsmeade

- Castle inhabitants, including professors, ghosts and staff

- Details of student life, academics, text books and much more!

The Unofficial Harry Potter Hogwarts Handbook is the next best thing to attending Hogwarts itself, providing more Wizarding World insight, detail and fun than ever before recorded in a single book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948174954
Publisher:	Media Lab Books
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Series:	The Unofficial Harry Potter Reference Library
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	45,169
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	8 - 18 Years

About the Author

MuggleNet is the world’s #1 Harry Potter website, hosting more than 1.5 million visitors each month. Having celebrated its 20th year in 2019, MuggleNet is one of the world's primary sources for all things Harry Potter. The site has been quoted by periodicals and news outlets such as Cosmopolitan, SyFy, Newsweek, Bustle, Nerdist, BBC Radio, The Los Angeles Times, People.com and many others. The site has even been a crossword puzzle clue in The New York Times.

Editorial Reviews

2022-05-10
Everything entering students need to know, from class and holiday schedules to notable ghosts and headmasters and headmistresses.

Compiled by a team of MuggleNet editors, this fourth annual entry in the Unofficial Harry Potter Reference Library mines the Potterverse’s books, films, games, discussion boards, and possibly even pensieves for fictive “facts” about the school’s buildings, grounds, curriculum, history, and prominent residents—living and otherwise. The entries are thoroughly spoileriffic, but that hardly matters as there are no illustrations, and only rabid fans are going to last long plowing through wearisomely detailed prose descriptions of the Hogwarts crest and official song, the castle’s common rooms and corridors…not to mention numerous exhaustive lists, from the names and injuries of everyone ever sent to the hospital wing and every offense, real or imagined, for which students were docked points to all the shops and inns in the adjacent village of Hogsmeade. The content is unsourced and neither indexed nor systematically organized. Still, readers who would delight in seeing the Battle of Hogwarts recapped as a timeline along with, for instance, learning where Hogwarts is and how it got its name will be in their glory. As in the original series, the cast’s racial makeup defaults to White.

Tasty in bits, but even Pottermanes may find this indigestible in quantity. (Fiction. 10-13)

Kirkus Reviews