Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide

Ah Hogwarts

This is world-building for a novel the readers normally wouldn't get to see. Thank goodness for the huge Harry Potter fandom as it gives us this little gem to join the rest.

While some of this is new and others aren't, I would have liked each entry to have been more in-depth than the snippets they are. Despite that, this is an enjoyable quick read.

Cute, easy read.

It has been a while since I read the original books (hence me tackling this series once more) however, I feel as if I already know this information? Despite that, I enjoyed the read, especially about how the Hogwarts express came about.

This was another quick read for me and I enjoyed it!

One of the three Pottermore ebooks and it was really nice! Interesting facts about the world of Harry Potter. I am looking forward the other two books, I read them now...

¡FENOMENAL!

Esta guía “incompleta” resulta muy completa que digamos (extraño ¿no?)

Dividida en 6 capítulos, comenzando por el Viaje a Hogwarts hasta Los Secretos del Castillo, vamos conociendo datos interesantísimos sobre este maravilloso colegio y amado mundo como lo es Harry Potter.

La verdad que adoré mucho, MUCHO este pequeño libro, y hasta ahora es mi favorito (creo que, de los tres, será mi favorito). Trata sobre la estación de King's Cross y el expreso de Hogwarts; el Sombrerero Seleccionador; el mapa del merodeador; las asignaturas de Hogwarts; los fantasmas del castillo, hasta lo mejor: LA CÁMARA DE LOS SECRETOS. Y saber que antes de mi amado Tom Riddle hubo un Gaunt que estuvo en la cámara se volvió un dato súper WUO.

Hará un tiempo yo escribía un fanfic con una amiga (en sentido literario, un completo desastre lleno de clichés a derroche) y con toda esta información nueva, por alguna razón, me recordó todo. ¡Fue demasiado nostálgico! E incluso me hizo querer re-escribir (mejorarlo por mucho aunque igual quedaría plagado de clichés porque era su misión) ese fanfic. En fin, mejor no me prometo nada por ese punto.

Pero sí prometo que toda esta información (Gracias Pottermore, gracias JK Rowling) será guardada, apreciada y recordada por siempre y para siempre.

LA CÁMARA DE LOS SECRETOS HA SIDO ABIERTA. ENEMIGOS DEL HEREDERO, TEMED.

Sweet read but unfortunately it goes against several decisions made in The Cursed Child, which felt a bit weird. Some part seems a bit off too. Overall it's always nice to get back into the Potterverse.

I really enjoy all of the details of Harry Potter's world. JK Rowling's imagination is remarkable. That being said, this book is really just a collection of writings from Pottermore. They're still worth a read, but some may not feel the need to spend $2.99 for a book form of the same online content.

I enjoyed the extra info, but felt it could have been so much more. Also not wholly convinced on the style, where it's partly in the story, but then partly looking at it from the outside e.g. “in the Harry Potter books”, and with extra info from JK Rowling herself. I was kind of hoping it was going to be written by someone from the HP universe, in character. Same applies to all three of the newly released books.

This is, I believe, a little taste of what Hogwarts: A History can be if Rowling ever bothers to write it. I love Hogwarts, and I love knowing more about how it was made and how some of its pieces work.

It's funny to me how Rowling tells us that she destroyed all the time-turners exactly to prevent people from doing what she is doing right now in The Cursed Child.

★★★★½

We begin just as any witch or wizard on his or her way to Hogwarts would – at London's King's Cross. It's a bustling, cavernous train station filled with busy commuters – so busy that they don't notice people laden with trunks, owls, cats and robes run at a ticket barrier and disappear.




... just as the human mind cannot comprehend time, so it cannot comprehend the damage that will ensue if we presume to tamper with its laws.




THE BALLAD OF NEARLY HEADLESS NICK BY J.K. ROWLING

It was a mistake any wizard could make

Who was tired and caught on the hop

One piffling error, and then, to my terror, I found myself facing the chop.

Alas for the eve when I met Lady Grieve

A-strolling the park in the dusk!

She was of the belief I could straighten her teeth

Next moment she'd sprouted a tusk.

I cried through the night that I'd soon put her right

But the process of justice was lax;

They'd brought out the block, though they'd mislaid the rock

Where they usually sharpened the axe.

Next morning at dawn, with a face most forlorn,

The priest said to try not to cry,

‘You can come just like that, no, you won't need a hat,'

And I knew that my end must be nigh.

The man in the mask who would have the sad task

Of cleaving my head from my neck,

Said ‘Nick, if you please, will you get to your knees,'

And I turned to a gibbering wreck.

‘This may sting a bit' said the cack-handed twit

As he swung the axe up in the air,

But oh the blunt blade!

No difference it made,

My head was still definitely there.

The axeman he hacked and he whacked and he thwacked,

‘Won't be too long', he assured me,

But quick it was not, and the bone-headed clot

Took forty-five goes 'til he floored me.

And so I was dead, but my faithful old head

It never saw fit to desert me,

It still lingers on, that's the end of my song,

And now, please applaud, or you'll hurt me.