Harry Potter lives in a global that's either magical and ancient. Hogwarts students trip an old school steam teach to varsity, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to existence within the kind of werewolves, witches, and magical spells. This publication is the 1st to discover the true background within which Harry's international is rooted.

Did you recognize that bezoars and mandrakes have been stylish luxurious goods for hundreds of years? learn the way Europeans first built the potions, spells, and charms taught at Hogwarts, from Avada Kedavra to like charms. find out how the eu prosecution of witches ended in the Statute of Secrecy, meet the genuine Nicholas Flamel, see how the Malfoys stack up opposed to Muggle English aristocrats, and evaluate the background of the wizarding global to real-life history.

• Gives you the historic backdrop to Harry Potter's world
• Covers issues starting from how genuine British boarding faculties evaluate to Hogwarts to how parchment, quills, and scrolls utilized in the wizarding international have been made
• Includes a timeline evaluating the heritage of the wizarding international to Muggle "real" history

Filled with attention-grabbing evidence and historical past, Harry Potter and History is an important better half for each Harry Potter fan.