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A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts

CONTENTS

CHARMS

Part 1: From Abracadabra to Amortentia

Part 2: A Coven of Witches

Part 3: The Sorting Hat and Invisibility Cloak

DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS

Part 1: Snakes, Snakes, Snakes

Part 2: Casting Out the Evil Eye and Drawing a Magic Circle

Part 3: Mythical Monsters

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.

This series of eBooks will reveal the world of magic and unlock its secrets. It will go back thousands of years. It will travel to the far corners of the world. It will reach the stars. It will explore under the earth. It will decipher mysterious languages. We’ll encounter some of the most colourful characters in history. We’ll discover the curious incidents and the truths behind legends. We’ll see how, in the quest to discover magic, practitioners laid the foundations of science.

This series, structured around lessons from the Hogwarts curriculum, will show how this long and rich history has nourished the fictional world of Harry Potter.

The starting point for these eBooks was the exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, which opened at the British Library in October 2017, twenty years after Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the UK. For the exhibition, curators spent over a year searching through the 150 million items that the British Library holds to find the most magical. Then they sourced special artefacts to be loaned from other notable institutions. In October 2018, the New-York Historical Society took on the British Library exhibition, adding books and artefacts from their own collection, as well as other fascinating loans.

This series of four eBook shorts contains worldly wonders from both exhibitions, exploring J. K. Rowling’s magical inventions alongside their cultural and historical forebears. Throughout are links between the wizarding world and our own, told through extraordinary stories from the history of magic.

CHARMS

PART 1: FROM ABRACADABRA TO AMORTENTIA

To become invisible, to make someone fall in love with you, to transform into another creature – these are all things that people have believed in, yearned for or feared throughout history. There’s nothing more magical than a magic charm.

And perhaps one of the most powerful magic words of all is ‘Abracadabra!’

‘Avada Kedavra!’ Moody roared.

There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air – instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but unmistakably dead.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Known today for its use by stage magicians when they perform illusions, ‘Abracadabra’ is probably familiar to us all. But it has more sinister connotations as well. Londoners used to paint it on their doors to ward off the plague in the 17th century. The infamous 20th-century English occultist Aleister Crowley believed it to be a word that held great power. Its power is certainly felt in the Harry Potter stories.

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