Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4582357
Area
Books
Title
The sorcerer's Compagnion
subtitle
A guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter
Literary collection
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Translator
Illustrator
Year
2001
Print Run
First edition
Type of book
Number of pages
286
Number produced
Dimensions
17.7 x 23.2 cm
ISBN10
0-76790-847-3
ISBN13
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Details
The Sorcerer's Companion allows curious readers to look up anything magical from all five Harry Potter books and discover a wealth of entertaining and unexpected information. Boggarts and broomsticks, hippogriffs and herbology, potions and prophecy: all have fascinating histories rooted in mythology, folktales, literature, or real-life events dating back hundreds or even thousands of years. Magic wands like those sold in Diagon Alley were once made by Druid sorcerers out of sacred yew trees. The veil that hangs in the Department of Mysteries can be traced to Biblical times. And books of spells and curses were highly popular (and often illegal) during the Middle Ages. With subjects ranging from Amulets to Zombies, you can also learn: • How to read tea leaves • Where to find a basilisk today • How to safely harvest mandrake plants • Who wore the first invisibility cloak • How to get rid of an angry goblin • Why owls were feared in the ancient world • How a king once paid for a war with a unicorn horn • How our "bogeyman" is related to the Hogwarts boggart, and more...