The A-Z of Harry Pottern

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Shoddy cash-in - Rated
I'm no potter expert, I just wanted something to have to hand in case I forgot what a particular spell or curse did whilst reading with my young daughter.
I was to be hugely dissapointed - on looking up a curse (I forget which) it just said it was the curse "baddy A" used on "goody B" once, but didn't tell me what the curse did! To make matters worse I had no idea who the characters referred to were as we were only on book 2 at that stage and I hadn't met them yet. If I had the knowledge to make that connection, I wouldn't need a book like this in the first place. I found many of the references similarly vague and obscure, of no help at all to someone who wants to look up basic facts as a guide to reading the books, which is surely what a book like this should be for.
Knocked together as a quick cash in with no thought or integrity - as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

Choose instead a book by an author who has actually read some HP! - Rated
Enough to have anybody who has done more than flick through the book squeal in horror. The book is a muddle of inaccuracies (Fleur Delacour is a veela (really?!), Roockwood bring secrets to Voldemort from Hogwarts after escaping Azkaban, the philosopher's stone holds the key to Voldermort's power, a horde of owls descend on Privet Drive in the Philosopher's Stone to alert Harry that he has gained a place at Hogwarts, Moaning Myrtle inhabits the boys' toilets to get info on Draco Malfoy's dodgy schemes and so on...)

The rest of the pages are filled with internet forum-style conjecture and random analysis (particularly sketchy was the section stating there were Christian overtones to the books as the children are sent home for the Easter and Christmas holidays).

It markets itself "an indispensable guide for Harry Potter fans of all ages", but is peppered with words such as `apocryphal', `Faustian' and `ignominious', while still managing to read as though it has been written by an 8 year old.

Most tellingly for a so-called A-Z of Harry Potter, under P you will find no mention at all of Harry Potter.

highly inaccurate - Rated
Everything you want to know about the boy wizard? I think not.Does not tell you anything a Potter fan won't already know and is littered with inaccurate facts such as the suggestion that Percy Weasley drives the flying ford anglia (as if!!) Avoid it!