Snag Your Copy Short Stories From Hogwarts Of Power, Politics And Pesky Poltergeists (Pottermore Presents, #2) Drafted By J.K. Rowling Issued As Manuscript
Perfect length for a cuppa, It has covered: I HAVE ALWAYS HATED YOU DOLORES UMBRIDGE BORING MAGIC MINISTERS
. ALWAYS GOING POOF HORACE SLUGHORN I TOO AM CAPABLE QUIRINUS QUIRRELL THE MOST MISCHIEVOUS PEEVES THE POLTERGEIST
I started this book by hating the diabolical sadistic Dolores Umbridge, even her name holds the meaning which is really uncanny.
I mean even looking at her or reading about her gives you negative vibes! She is CREEPY!
The ministers bored me all along, being paradoxically weird.
The timeline order of the list of Ministers dragged a bit, The facts related to the prison of Azkaban and Dementors are eerie!
This most gifted potion maker Horace Slughorn's struggles, weaknesses, guilttrips, and survival attempts are totally peculiar leading stories till the second battle at Hogwarts.
Also, the more information about Potions, Polyjuice potion, Cauldrones is the bonus!
Hunger for power leads to a fate like Prof, Quirrell, destroying every ounce of happiness in the way, His incapability to survive interference of Lord Voldemort on his mind piloted certain miserable events for the Hogwarts,
The prank master Peeves stole every heart along with the Fred amp George Weasley! The historical background and his fear for Bloody Baron are indeed nicely portrayed.
More importantly, I loved this book because of the intriguing thought process of JKR about each and every character mentioned, Muy divertido de leer, habla de personaje queridos como no tan queridos :
Me gustó mucho el último capítulo que trata de Peeves, pero me dio tristeza que se nombrara a Fred y a George Weasley! This second book full of short stories and snippets from the world of Harry Potter includes the following five chapters:
Dolores Umbridge
Ministers for Magic and Azkaban
Horace Slughorn / Polyjuice Potion / Cauldrons
Quirinus Quirrell
A Pesky Poltergeist
I've always hated Umbridge.
Like HATED. Voldemort is the ultimate evil but he has no emotions, In many ways, it's easy to see him as a nonhuman and therefore
treat him differently put him in his own class so to speak, Umbridge however is human, through and through, but simply chooses to be the worst version imaginable, This chapter does nothing to redeem her, actually, Rowling's background on her gives great insight into her malice and why she looks / dresses the way she does most interesting were Rowling's own thoughts and motives in making Umbridge the way she was lol.
I can see the humanity in many characters, even the ones I didn't like, but this pink menace deserved all she got from the centaurs or would have deserved even worse, actually.
Now Slughorn, on the other hand, was full of human error but not a bad person, The background information in this ebook does him more justice than the big books and I'm glad for it, He's not a man I would have called my favourite teacher, I think, but one mistake should not define and haunt you like that, Besides, redemption stories are always powerful,
Moreover, we get to know a bit more about potions especially Polyjuice Potion and cauldrons and the thought process that led Rowling to this or that description / namegiving.
In between these two chapters is another one naming all the Ministers ever since the Ministry for Magic was established, Some last names are actually well known, some information is very funny and some, again, give great hints at what we will see in the Fantastic Beasts movies!
The last two chapters are pretty short.
It was kind of nice to read about Quirrel and Peeves but, ultimately, I wouldn't have missed it had it not been in the book,
Again, much of this was already known to me through Pottermore, but Rowling made up for it by including completely unknown stuff too, It's just a delight to see the true scope of the world that the author has in her head, Sin duda es el que más me ha gustado de los tres : As theis more about single characters,manages to mingle characters and interesting facts from the wizard's world into one.
Loved it! Many great quotes, funny things and magic,
Dolores Umbridge is one of the most awful person eeever : and thanks to Rowling I hate her even more now : sitelinkMermaids UK
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sitelinkBlack Visions Collective I loved all the introductions to Cauldrons and Potions, and the part where J.
K. Rowling described Azkaban and why it was named Azkaban, it was amazing,
I love her mind so much that I want her to keep writing in this world forever, STARS! probably my favourite of the three Pottermore Presents books :
In the wrong hands, power and magic can be dark, lethal, and consuming.In “Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists” you discover what happens when power goes to someones head quite literally, in Professor Quirrells case.
It's less in a “storytelling” tone and more an account of their pasts, with J, K. Rowling's thoughts tagged along! I found its writing and whole design appropriate for its goal: A brief interesting return to the history of the Wizarding World and the backstories of some our favourite lovetohate characters.
Of course, you won't have any interest in this if you haven't read Harry Potter :
The topics we learn about in this short book:
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge may have looked like an iced cupcake, but she was anything but sweet.If it isn't the character we all wanna strangle! I appreciated learning about her past and family and more of her personality, analysing her terror of the unknown and the wild.
She was savage, sadistic and remorseless,
Her journey to power literally made me wanna throttle her :
Ministers for Magic
This was probably my favourite chapter of the whole thing! In this part, we read about different Ministers from the first female Minister for Magicwho established Department of International Magical Cooperation and lobbied hard and successfully to have a Quidditch World Cup tournament held in Britain during her term, to the Minister who believed the Muggle technology telegraph interferes with wand function, or the one who introduced the “pointy hat” legislation!
I utterly loved learning about the Wizarding World's policies and politics like the first Muggleborn Minister for Magic and Squib Right marches, and was impressed by how Ms.
Rowling twisted it around our facts and history, such as and the Minister that was close buddies with Queen Victoria without her knowing her friend is a wizard :
Two of my absolute favourites among the many:
Porteus Knatchbull
Was called in confidentially inby the Muggle Prime Minister of the day, Lord North, to see whether he could help with King George IIIs emerging mental instability.
Word leaked out that Lord North believed in wizards, and he was forced to resign after a motion of no confidence,
Archer Evermonde
In post during the Muggle First World War, Evermonde passed emergency legislation forbidding witches and wizards to get involved, lest they risk mass infractions of the International Statute of Secrecy.
Thousands defied him, aiding Muggles where they could,
Azkaban
Experts who had studied buildings built with and around Dark magic contended that Azkaban might wreak its own revenge upon anybody attempting to destroy it.Yup, we learn the history of Azkaban, the twisted origins of the Dementors, and how the Ministers each attempt to use itI LOVED it!
Horace Slughorn
Oh I wanna hug this namedropper of a man, and his life story was my second fave chapter of the book!
Potions
From Potions expert stereotypes aka Snape incarnate to different Potions and how Rowling came up with their ingredients the best part, really! and more about Polyjuice Potion and the choice of Cauldrons as the Wizards' instrument, there's much and more.
Quirinus Quirrell
The halfblooded Ravenclaw bet ya didn't know that, huh who used to be a gifted but delicate boy.
I honestly feel bad for him :
Peeves the Poltergeist
Now, that's another fave troublemaker who terrorises the hallways, respects the teachers, and brings chaos upon any who dare attempt to throw him out :
Third favourite chapter of the book for me!
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