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Avg. Customer Rating: 1.0 / 5.0
Shoddy cash-in 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... more info
Choose instead a book by an author who has actually read some HP! 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... more info
highly inaccurate 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!
