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Harry Potter Lexicon
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This encyclopedia is the most complete and amazing reference to the phenomenon that is Harry Potter and our understanding of this wonderful wizarding world.
Based on Steve Van Arks world-renowned website, this is the ultimate guide to the world of Harry Potter. A complete book of reference to all things Hogwarts. From that to which we are all now familiar – Kings Cross Platform 9 ¾, Diagon Alley and Fluffy – to the more teratological, such as the Horklump and the Aethonon, Pygmy Puffs, Doxies and the Ukranian Ironbelly.
The entries encompass all seven titles (plus JKR’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them & Quidditch Through the Ages), each annotated with abbreviations of book and chapter, and of source reference. It is these sources of reference (an authoritative canon) that are remarkably detailed and extend to the many interviews given by JKR including those with Comic Relief, Blue Peter and Stephen Fry at the Royal Albert Hall.
A precise and obscure example? - Tracey Davis (Slytherin 91-98) whose existence has only been seen on a draft class list displayed during the Harry Potter and Me television interview.
The Lexicon is a winner of J.K. Rowling's Fan Site Award. Rowling said:
;This is such a great site that I have been known to sneak into an internet café while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of Harry Potter (which is embarrassing). A website for the dangerously obsessive; my natural home.”
Sample entries:
Bat, Beater's In Quidditch, the Beaters use enchanted wooden bats to hit the Bludgers in an effort to affect their flight (away from fellow team members and/or toward opposing team members). The enchantments are necessary because of the weight and composition of the Bludgers. See (QA6) for details of their development.
Derek (1982 - present) [Y2 - present] Hogwarts student, 1993 - 2000, Stayed over Christmas holidays December 1993 during his first year; Dumbledore passed him the chipolatas at Christmas dinner, breaking the ice a bit (PA11).
Quick-Quotes Quill A quill that is enchanted to be set up on a sheet of paper without human support, which when activated will write an exaggerated account of whatever is said in its presence. Rita Skeeter famously carries an acid-green Quick-Quotes Quill in her crocodile skin handbag (GF18).