LA Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter

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Good Used Condition. I LOVED this book! $10 Any interest? The book is in great condition. The last page has a cut-out bookmark (with "rules" on it to guide you through the book). The bookmark has been cut out, but is included with the book. (You MUST use the bookmark to keep up with the fast moving pace.) It fully covers books 1 through 4. Here's the description:

This Guide, extremely popular the last two years with Harry Potter fans everywhere, is your key tool for developing the skills needed to sleuth those important clues, themes, and running bits. By recognizing these hints, you'll have even more fun predicting what is yet to come. While the world awaits the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling has teased that her clues lie right before fans' eyes--or between their fingers. The trail is marked for books 6 and 7, but do you know where to look?

Waters’ presents her detailed hunt for clues in an interesting and provocative, yet fun-to-read manner. With this Guide in one hand and the Harry Potter books in the other, you’ll:

read the Harry Potter series in a whole new light, delving below the surface to ferret out those sly clues buried by the cunning JK Rowling,

understand better why the Harry Potter mysteries have captured such a phenomenal world-wide following as you uncover the detail to which Ms. Rowling has crafted her story and her world,

amaze at how deceptively she’s hidden those clues,

discover new ones on your own!
Wizarding World Press has attracted quite a following, which started with this Guide—the most popular book to analyze the clues and mysteries hidden within the Harry Potter series. Discover it for yourself.

The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter is for you if:

You’re new to the series and want to know what all the hubbub is about (and want to start with the best and most complete book available for capturing the themes, clues, and future possibilities). Get all your theories in one place here.

You’re new to book 5 and would like to better understand what has come before. Read the Guide first, then pick out those clues in Order of the Phoenix on your own.

Amy

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#2 The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts $5

Here's the description: Anyone who has read the Harry Potter books is aware that author J.K. Rowling infuses her stories with references to mythology, literature, history, and legends. Even if you don't know exactly what a manticore or a griffin is, it's likely that many readers have at least a vague sense of the existence of these creatures in ancient lore. Inspired by Rowling's suggestion to a young fan to "go and look it up," author David Colbert did quite a bit of investigation himself. The result is the fun, entertaining, and enlightening Magical Worlds of Harry Potter.
From alchemy to hippogriffs to veela, Colbert explores the fascinating meanings between the lines and buried within the names of characters and places in all the Harry Potter books. Chapter headings include such intriguing questions as "Have Witches Always Flown on Broomsticks?" "Why Would Chocolate Help After Escaping a Dementor?" and "Are Any of the Famous Witches and Wizards Real?" A small purple tab in the margin of the first page of each chapter guides readers looking for specific subjects: Divination, Goblins, McGonogall, Owls, Voldemort, Wands, etc. Curious readers will learn the link between Hagrid's pet dog, Fluffy, and the mythological Greek sentry to Hades, Cerberus. And they'll get a taste of scholar Joseph Campbell's theories on heroism, with Harry as the hero, of course. The true magic of this book is that it will surely inspire Harry Potter fans to delve deeper into the various areas it explores. Readers will soon be clamoring for collections of Greek, Japanese, Indian, and Egyptian mythology, as well as copies of The Sword in the Stone, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Canterbury Tales, and Treasure Island, to discover the sources of their favorite Harry Potter books. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter--This text refers to the Paperback edition.