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[Poll #1309309]Comments are also welcome. I'm contemplating getting the book, but I don't know if it's really worth spending money on? I love Harry Potter as much as I did a year and five months ago, but I've actually never been as quick to get the companion books. It took me two years to get around to buying Fantastic Beasts and Quidditch Through the Ages.[Poll #1309309]
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Date: 2008-12-04 09:51 pm (UTC)And what an adorable icon!
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Date: 2008-12-04 08:42 pm (UTC)The fairy tales themselves are, by their nature, aimed at a young audience. The notes are aimed more at detail-obsessed fans, and imo are less aimed at children than the schoolbooks, because JKR can go into more detail about people and spells we know from canon, now that she no longer has to be spoiler-conscious. So to me it felt less jokey overall than the schoolbooks, though that could just have been the frame of mind in which I was reading.
More detailed comments on my LJ, if that may help you decide.
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Date: 2008-12-04 09:53 pm (UTC)Yes, that would have been wise. *Is forgetful*
Thanks for the info... that's really interesting. I may just grab it.
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Date: 2008-12-04 10:00 pm (UTC)It's especially worth buying for the Dumbledore Documents (lol), but that also immediately makes clear that it's only for fans: casual readers won't care enough about the Tales to buy the book, and hardcore fans will gobble the extras up. Similarly, I don't really think little kids will care much about wandlore or historic backgrounds, let alone pick up little details that are only hinted at (hairy heart indeed), or little injokes (Grubby Goat!). Besides, I found Dumbledore's way of writing similar to his way of speaking in HBP and TDH; that is, verbose and somewhat academical. Easy for adults to read, but perhaps somewhat off-putting for younger readers, I'd think (but such a delightful way for Jo to display her sense of humour!).
I must say, though, that I really really loved that JK Rowling did the foreword and some of the footnotes, while still pretending that this was all real! "Professor McGonagall told me..." etc. I dunno, somehow it seemed as if she'd written herself into this world, or something. But it seemed really fitting, as a closure to the series, that the creator and the creation now interacted. :)
(I do think it's a shame that while the book has the subtitle 'Translated by Hermione Granger', there's no foreword by her or anything. The subtitle might as well not be there.)
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Date: 2008-12-04 10:06 pm (UTC)She's a writer - of course she's written herself into the world. And I believe McGonagall probably DID tell her... okay, obviously not literally, but I can totally believe that she was feeding the cat one day, and suddenly had this daydream where McGonagall was talking about - well, whatever Jo then said McG told her. :P
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Date: 2008-12-04 10:09 pm (UTC)...
OMG JO WROTE A SELF-INSERT.
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Date: 2008-12-04 10:41 pm (UTC)The other companion books seemed to relate to the characters more and Harry and Ron's jokes/comments/tomfoolery made the book.
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Date: 2008-12-05 04:30 am (UTC)Besides... You're a Potter fan. We gotta rush out to buy whatever crumbs that get thrown our way now.... or put up with crap from Warner Brothers... or... or...
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Date: 2008-12-06 05:23 am (UTC)Total sucker. *points to self*