书名：Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them神奇动物在哪里
作者：J.K. Rowling
出版社名称：Bloomsbury Children's Books
出版时间：2018
语种：英文
ISBN：9781408896945
商品尺寸：19.8 x 1.7 x 12.9 cm
包装：平装
页数：144
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them《神奇动物在哪里》是“哈利·波特”系列著名的官方衍生书，也是充满幽默和想象力的作品。它是哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校时的指定教材，由J.K.罗琳（化名纽特·斯卡曼德）撰写，书中介绍了多种不同类型的魔法动物。深度阅读这本书，你将了解到遍布五个大洲的神奇动物的奇特习性。轻声念出熟悉的咒语，魔法世界的大门将再度敞开。这是一本让人读过之后会爱不释手的书，也是哈迷们不可错过的珍藏品！
An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Muggles who have seen the eponymous film or read the Harry Potter novels will be familiar with some of these beasts - the Niffler, the Thunderbird, the Hippogriff... This new paperback edition features the recently revised 2017 text, which includes six curious new creatures that inhabit the North American continent, and a new foreword from Newt Scamander that sheds fascinating light on the events surrounding a serious breach in the International Statute of Secrecy which took place in New York in the 1920s.
This new paperback edition features gorgeously shimmery snakeskin detail on the foil effect jacket and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Witches, wizards and Muggles of all ages will delight in discovering the extraordinary habits and habitats of magical beasts from across five continents.
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No wizarding household is complete without a copy(Albus Dumbledore)
J.K.罗琳（J.K. Rowling），《哈利波特》系列的作者，七集小说陆续在1997至2007年间出版，在世界创下四亿五千万部的畅销纪录，并被翻译成七十四种语言，在超过两百个国家出版，也被改编拍成八部电影。2017年12月12日，她被英国王室授予名誉勋位(Companion of Honour)，剑桥公爵威廉王子为其授勋。
J.K. Rowlingis the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold more than 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 different languages and made into eight blockbuster films. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos). As well as receiving an OBE and Companion of Honour for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honours, including France’s Légion d’Honneur and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
THE DEFINITION OF A ‘BEAST’ HAS CAUSED controversy for centuries. Though this might surprise some first-time students of Magizoology, the problem might come into clearer focus if we take a moment to consider three types of magical creature.
Werewolves spend most of their time as humans (whether wizard or Muggle). Once a month, however, they transform into savage, four-legged beasts of murderous intent and no human conscience.
The centaurs’ habits are not human-like; they live in the wild, refuse clothing, prefer to live apart from wizards and Muggles alike and yet have intelligence equal to theirs.
Trolls bear a humanoid appearance, walk upright, may be taught a few simple words and yet are less intelligent than the dullest unicorn and possess no magical powers in their own right except for their prodigious and unnatural strength.
We now ask ourselves: which of these creatures is a ‘being’ — that is to say, a creature worthy of legal rights and a voice in the governance of the magical world — and which is a ‘beast’?
Early attempts at deciding which magical creatures should be designated ‘beasts’ were extremely crude.
Burdock Muldoon, Chief of the Wizards’ Council’ in the fourteenth century, decreed that any member of the magical community that walked on two legs would henceforth be granted the status of ‘being’, all others to remain ‘beasts’. In a spirit of friendship he summoned all ‘beings’ to meet with the wizards at a summit to discuss new magical laws and found to his intense dismay that he had miscalculated. The meeting hail was crammed with goblins who had brought with them as many two-legged creatures as they could find. As Bathilda Bagshot tells us in A History of Magic.
As we see, the mere possession of two legs was no guarantee that a magical creature could or would take an interest in the affairs of wizard government. Embittered, Burdock Muldoon forswore any further attempts to integrate non-wizard members of the magical community into the Wizards’ Council.
