Pottermore Publishing - Harry Potter: a history of magic: a journey through the Hogwarts curriculum. Books 1-4

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. Well encounter some of the most colourful characters in history. Well discover the curious incidents and the truths behind legends. Well 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 Philosophers 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. Rowlings 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.

ALSO FROM POTTERMORE PUBLISHING

EBOOKS

THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (UK English)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (US English)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

HOGWARTS LIBRARY BOOKS

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Quidditch Through the Ages

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

PLAYSCRIPTS AND SCREENPLAYS

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

A play by Jack Thorne

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald The Original Screenplay

HARRY POTTER: A HISTORY OF MAGIC

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic

POTTERMORE PRESENTS (EBOOK SHORTS)

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists

Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide

ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone: Illustrated Edition

[Kindle in Motion] (UK English)

Illustrated by Jim Kay

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone: Illustrated Edition

[Kindle in Motion] (US English)

Illustrated by Jim Kay

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated Edition

[Kindle in Motion]

Illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill

AUDIOBOOKS

THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

UK English audiobooks narrated by Stephen Fry

US English audiobooks narrated by Jim Dale

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (UK English)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (US English)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

HOGWARTS LIBRARY BOOKS

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Narrated by Eddie Redmayne

Quidditch Through the Ages

Narrated by Andrew Lincoln

NON-FICTION AUDIOBOOKS

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Makers, Mysteries and Magic

Narrated by Dan Fogler

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Narrated by Natalie Dormer

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This digital edition published by Pottermore Publishing in 2019

The following A Journey Through titles were first published individually by Pottermore Publishing in 2019:
A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts (ISBN: 978-1-78110-613-6)
A Journey Through Potions and Herbology (ISBN: 978-1-78110-614-3)
A Journey Through Divination and Astronomy (ISBN: 978-1-78110-615-0)
A Journey Through Care of Magical Creatures (ISBN: 978-1-78110-616-7)

This book is inspired by the British Library exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic

J.K. Rowling illustrations, images, manuscript pages and Harry Potter quotes J.K. Rowling

Text and design Pottermore Publishing, 2019
Illustrations by Rohan Daniel Eason Pottermore Publishing, 2019

The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted.

Wizarding World Publishing Rights J.K. Rowling
Wizarding World characters, names, and related indicia are TM and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Wizarding World is a trademark of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

ISBN: 978-1-78110-465-1

Harry Potter simply wouldnt be Harry Potter without spells and charms. There would be no Wingardium Leviosa, no Riddikulus and no charmed objects like the Marauders Map not even a flying broomstick.

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. Theres nothing more magical than a magic charm.

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