This fall I made a brief visit back into the ever so gripping world of wizardry with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Short as it was and written in the form of a textbook, I was pulled back into the amazing world of J.K. Rowling's writing with full force. There is nothing nicer than a book with such a lively feel and vibrant choice of vocabulary.
Harry's casual notes scribbled over the pages gave them a nice depth connecting the beasts to the familiar happenings of the Harry Potter books.
I particularly enjoyed funny references to creatures that muggles -we- tell myths about. Like how the Dodo bird is an actual magical creature hidden from us. Or how the Loch Ness Monster is in fact real, only it has the ability to use transfiguration explaining why we have no real evidence of its existence.
The one-hundred-and-something pages didn't lack suspense either. The tale of an attack by a Lethifold was put into words so well that I found myself looking up to check my room for any suspicious shadows.
Above all I was once again bewildered by the amount of imagination Rowling possesses. How do you come up with something like the Jobberknoll, a bird silent until its death when it lets out a long scream comprising of all the sounds it has ever heard?
With all of this spinning around in my head, I feel like rereading the series is definitely in place. I also got a nice flavor of magic into my autumn days. As Albert Einstein so fittingly put it "those who don't believe in any kind of magic are as good as dead", which sums up my feeling this fall having read this Hogwarts textbook.


May this post serve as a kind of potion to give your return back to routine and eventually the colder seasons a mysterious feel from Harry Potter's world. Who knows, maybe you've received a letter to attend Hogwarts and  are laughing at my not knowing how true everything I believe to be made up really is.