MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7
By Carrie R. Wheadon,
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Popular Potter site fans the Hallows hype.
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What's the Story?
MuggleNet.com, a Harry Potter fan site, offers their \"unauthorized predictions\" on the outcome of the Harry Potter series -- who lives, who dies, who falls in love, and how the adventure will end.
Is It Any Good?
This enlightening book pushes kids to think critically about the Harry Potter books, a lesson that can be extended into everything they read. Remind kids of that when they realize there's life after the last page of Deathly Hallows.
These Potterphiles do know their stuff. And this is their Prior Incantatem -- pulling past books and J.K. Rowling quotes out of their wands and breaking them down one theme at a time. But like the spell, the book's magic is fleeting -- pick it up before the hype is over, or don't bother. Perhaps that's why this book didn't come from a big publishing house or get a polished treatment. The chapter headers are grainy-looking, a few typos are noticeable, and the array of fonts on the cover is a little tacky. But that's not all that important.
The nice thing here is that the authors' evidence is presented clearly -- even the stuff they don't agree with. (For example, there are still some fans out there who think Dumbledore is alive and well, so the authors humor these fans with a few clues that they could be right.) That said, for casual fans, some things will seem like they're coming from left field (like the Lily-Snape connection) -- until MuggleNet states their case.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the book's theories. Which predictions do you agree with? Families can also examine how the authors compiled their information and came up with their predictions, since they do a good job of presenting their evidence. Do you think they're right to examine every quote from Rowling from interviews and Web chats, or is it a little extreme?
Book Details
- Authors: Ben Schoen , Andy Gordon , Emerson Spartz , Gretchen Stull , Jamie Lawrence
- Genre: Media
- Book type: Non-Fiction
- Publisher: Ulysses Press
- Publication date: November 20, 2006
- Publisher's recommended age(s): 9 - 12
- Number of pages: 214
- Last updated: July 12, 2017
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