A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)
Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical.
Taal / Language : English
Inhoudsopgave:
Introduction.
Section One. "The Burrow is just outside Ottery St. Catchpole": When Muggles and Wizards Lived Side-by-Side.
1. Magic for Daily Use and Profit: Mandrakes, Charms, Bezoars, and Love Potions in the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds (Birgit Wiedl).
2. Severus Snape and the Standard Book of Spells: Ancient Tongues in the Wizarding World (M.G. DuPree).
3. Beastly Books and Quick Quills: Harry Potter and the Making of Medieval Manuscripts (Alexandra Gillespie).
4. Nicholas Flamel: The Alchemist Who Lived (Don Keck DuPree).
5. Why the Statute of Secrecy? Real historical oppression of witches and wizards (Birgit Wiedl).
Section Two. After the Stature of Secrecy: Parallel Worlds.
6. Was Voldemort a Nazi? Death Eater Ideology and Nationals Socialism (Nancy Reagin).
7. "Magic is Might": How the Wizarding Government Gained Its Power (Janice Liedl).
8. Were the Malfoys Aristocrates? The Decline and Fall of the Pure-blooded (Laura Loiacono and Grace Loiacono).
9. School Ties, House Points and Quidditch: Hogwarts as a British Boarding School (Susan Hall).
10. Of Marranos and Mudbloods: Harry Potter and the Spanish Inquisition (Ruth Abrams).
Section Three. Women and Witches, Werewolves and Muggle-borns: Magical Hierarchies.
11. Witches vs. Women: What Muggles Could Learn from Wizarding History (Janice Liedl).
12. Marx, Magic and Muggles: Class Conflict in Harry Potter`s World (Susan Hall).
13. Hairy Snout, Human Heart? Werewolves in Harry Potter`s World and in European History (Eveline Brugger).
14. Hermione raised her hand again: Wizards Writing History (Anne Rubenstein).
Acknowledgments.
Index. Notable Magical Names of Our Time.
The Hogwarts Faculty (Contributors).
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Ingenaaid: paperback,kaft slap, 352 pagina's
Verschenen: mei 2011
Gewicht: 480 gram
Formaat: 228 x 152 x 23 mm
John Wiley & Sons

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