This book is structured to feature back-stories of certain characters, the best of which are Professor McGonagall and Remus Lupin. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies: This was my favorite of the 3 ebooks by far. Ok, seriously, let’s talk about the actual books now. The titles are misnomers, which could upset those who don’t know what they are going in. So if you go into reading these books expecting them to be actual narrative short stories, you will be disappointed. (Which btw, I’m totally calling as the elusive “encyclopedia” we were promised oh so long ago). These are books of encyclopedia entries about characters, events, and magical objects in the Potterverse. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of short stories.
There are no short stories in these ebooks. However, there is one other thing I think was a murky decision in publication: calling these ebooks “short story” collections. published on Pottermore (surprise, right?), so much of the information was not new to me, but despite that, I still greatly enjoyed reading these. I was one of those people who read every darn word J.K. Strange things. But enough about that let’s talk about the actual books. The timing was awkward, and it basically became a non-event since most of this was already on Pottermore. (Though they’ll probably be printed eventually anyway, cause why not?) *Shakes head.* Also, I was confused as to why they decided to release these, without much pomp and circumstance, right in the aftermath of the Cursed Child publication. Print copy would have made more sense, but they basically just took content from one e-platform and put it on another. I don’t understand the point of putting this all in ebook form when it was already online.
They have since taken down some of that content and are now making you pay 2.99 each just to read what you may have already read for free, plus a bit of new, previously unpublished stuff. I’m lucky enough that 2.99 each isn’t a big deal for me, but I understand others’ frustration at this. Why you ask? Because most of the content inside these 3 ebooks was, once upon a time, published and freely available on the Pottermore website. If you didn’t know, Pottermore released 3 ebooks last Tuesday that a lot of people are not too happy about. More Harry Potter stuff!? What’s up with that? These new releases have many fans’ brows furrowed, mine included.
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