• Event Agrippa becomes an author who writes about witches and other arcane subjects. He would be “imprisoned by Muggles for his writing, because they thought his books were evil” (FW). Read More
• Books and Literature Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander was a standard reference work devoted to the amazing variety of magical creatures of the world. The book was originally commissioned in 1918 and published in 1927 by Obscurus Books, and has been updated constantly ever since. Read More
• Event Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books commissions the young Newt Scamander to write a guide of magical beasts. The result is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, first published in 1927, a book which has been an approved Hogwarts textbook ever since and gone into 52 editions. Scamander takes at the opportunity… Read More
• Event Eight years after the book was commissioned and Newt Scamander started travelling the world in search of magical creatures, Obscurus Books publishes the guide. Fifty-two editions of the book have now been published as of the late 1990s, and it has been an approved textbook at Hogwarts since its original… Read More
• Source “The Fountain of Fair Fortune” is a wizarding world fairy tale, part of the collection Tales of Beedle the Bard. In the story, three witches and a hapless knight are on a quest to find the Fountain of Fair Fortune in its enchanted garden. Once a year, one unfortunate… Read More
• Character Fif LaFolle was the author of the Enchanted Encounters romance series (WoM). Read More
• Character Finbar Quigley is the Captain of the Ballycastle Bats quidditch team and plays in the position of Beater (DP1, DP2). If eligible to play for Ireland, he is possibly the same person as the Quigley who a member of the Irish National Team that won the 1994 Quidditch… Read More
• Character Ortiz O’Flaherty was an American and the author of Bigfoot’s Last Stand, a book about the Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892 (Pm). Read More
• Character Hedley Fleetwood was a wizard whose Patronus took the form of a wooly mammoth. This was notable to Miranda Goshawk, who references him in the Book of Spells, because extinct Patronuses are exceptionally rare. (BoS)… Read More
• Books and Literature He Flew Like a Madman is a biography of the Quidditch player “Dangerous” Dai Llewellyn, written by Quidditch Through the Ages author Kennilworthy Whisp (QA). Read More
• Businesses, merchants, and shops Flourish and Blotts is a large wizarding bookshop in Diagon Alley. Flourish and Blotts is located “about halfway down Diagon Alley on the left hand side” (JKR/Twitter 8/9/15). Filled with shelves stacked to the ceiling, Flourish and Blotts is the primary – and perhaps only – supplier of textbooks for schoolbooks for Hogwarts (… Read More
• Books and Literature Flying With the Cannons is a book of interesting facts devoted to the Chudley Cannons Quidditch team, given to Harry by Ron as a Christmas present during their second year (CS12). The book is illustrated with moving photos (GF2, GF22). Read More
• Books and Literature The “Fundamental Laws of Magic” are mentioned by Albus Dumbledore in his notes on the story “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart” (WHH), which is one of the Tales of Beedle the Bard (TBB). He credits these laws to the magical theoretician Adalbert Waffling. Read More